Best Wondrous Words
169 Wondrous quotes by 143 unique authors
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For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is.
— Brian Greene
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String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to…
— Brian Greene
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The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to…
— Brian Greene
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The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be…
— Edward R. Murrow
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of…
— Khalil Gibran
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Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words." From the moment…
— Orhan Pamuk
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In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but…
— William Saroyan
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This highway leads to the shadowy tip of reality: you're on a through route to the land of the different, the bizarre, the unexplainable...Go as…
— Rod Serling
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Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's…
— Hermann Hesse
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In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for…
— William Saroyan
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She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. Afterward…
— Steven Galloway
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The bridge will only take you halfway there, to those mysterious lands you long to see. Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fair, and moonlit…
— Shel Silverstein
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Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but…
— Rohinton Mistry
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I am grateful for emphasis on reading the scriptures. I hope that for you this will become something far more enjoyable than a duty; that,…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun that suddenly is…
— Julio Cortazar
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Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.
— Patrick Rothfuss
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When you wake up from a dream you have only a few precious moments before the details of the dream begin to dissipate and the…
— Vera Nazarian
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[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the…
— Tom Wolfe
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There's no need to imagine that you're a wondrous beauty, because that's what you are.
— Tove Jansson
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Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the…
— Nikolai Gogol
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In this dark world where he now dwelt, ugly things and surprising things and once in a long while a tiny wondrous thing spilled out…
— Philip K. Dick
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The world is not a courtroom There is no judge no jury no plaintiff. This is a caravan filled with eccentric beings telling wondrous stories…
— Saadi
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Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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...the thrill of being surrounded by something wondrous and fantastical, only magnified and focused directly at her. The feel of his skin against hers reverberates…
— Erin Morgenstern
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Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp…
— William Shakespeare
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