Best Wondrous Quotations
169 Wondrous quotes by 143 unique authors
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I have always been fascinated by the life cycle, the way skin metamorphoses over time. I am mesmerized by skin and that's why I've been…
— Joyce Tenneson
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It is indeed a wondrous universal alchemy, is it not? When one's heartfelt intentions cause mountains to move.
— Jacqueline Winspear
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Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
— Bertolt Brecht
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People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people -…
— Neil Postman
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I feel that nasal spray is a wondrous medical achievement, because it is supposed to relieve nasal congestion, and by gadfrey, it relieves nasal congestion.…
— Dave Barry
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Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study - ourselves.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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It is truly excellent to have someone believe in you and your ability to write. But I think it is just as helpful to have…
— Kate DiCamillo
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I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.
— Jan Karon
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When the spirit moves me, I can do many wondrous things.
— Van Morrison
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And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the painter have brought…
— Thomas Cole
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Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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We should not knowingly allow any species or race to go extinct. And let us go beyond mere salvage to begin the restoration of natural…
— E. O. Wilson
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My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about The other four in wondrous motion.
— William Shakespeare
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Life is the most precious and wondrous thing that any of us have. Along the way, one of the real miracles occurs when we realize…
— Richard Moss
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Still constant is a wondrous excellence.
— William Shakespeare
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There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work with harm.
— Phoebe Cary
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When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the…
— Dogen
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A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on…
— John Harington
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Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things!
— Tom Lehrer
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How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath a thousand tongues…
— Elizabeth Oakes Smith
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CHRISTMAS DAY Jesus came! - and came for me. Simple words! and yet expressing Depths of holy mystery, Depths of wondrous love and blessing. Holy…
— Frances Ridley Havergal
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Who reports the works and ways of the clouds, those wondrous creations coming into being every day like freshly upheaved mountains?
— John Muir
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The simplified life is a sanctified life, Much more calm, much less strife. Oh, what wondrous truths are unveiled- Projects succeed which had previously failed.…
— Peace Pilgrim
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The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything which is within…
— Marcus Aurelius
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