Best Wondrous Lines
169 Wondrous quotes by 143 unique authors
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All his life Robert Grainier would remember vividly the burned valley at sundown, the most dreamlike business he’d ever witnessed waking—the brilliant pastels of the…
— Denis Johnson
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The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips…
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and its…
— Anne Rice
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Love is both wondrous and yet full of peril. Love is a gateway through which hatred - disguised and unrecognized - can pass.
— David Gemmell
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This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread.
— Meg Rosoff
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Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier…
— Lew Wallace
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The deeper we grow in the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the poorer we become - the more we realize that everything in life is a…
— Brennan Manning
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Caelen?” “Aye, lass?” “You were right.” “What was I right about?” “Kissing. ’Tis a most wondrous thing.” She could sense his smile.
— Maya Banks
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A spider lives inside my head Who weaves a strange and wondrous web Of silken threads and silver strings To catch all sorts of flying…
— Shel Silverstein
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The pain, so unexpected and undeserved, had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs. I realized I didn’t hate the cabinet door, I hated my…
— Philip K. Dick
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The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren’t they?” his mother went on. “We work so hard to get rid of them when…
— Patrick Ness
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If you are one of earth’s inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send…
— Homer
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O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and how many changes of states and of…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Faith is a wondrous thing; it is not only capable of moving mountains, but also of making you believe that a herring is a race…
— Arthur Koestler
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The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the…
— Charles Darwin
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When one thinks of the wondrous glory of Christ, how astonishing that He can join with us! But more, when one thinks of His bringing…
— George Wigram
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What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the patterns are wondrous.
— Brian Greene
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For Philistines like me, the mysteries of Washington can be both perplexing and wondrous.
— David Harsanyi
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If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God, is our capacity for great evil proof of the Devil?
— Paul Bloom
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Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies.
— Ridley Scott
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I was the youngest child. I got to be myself and ask stupid questions because I was the youngest. It is so important to listen…
— May-Britt Moser
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Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.
— James Beattie
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You are part of that horrid expression, the best and the brightest. It can be a terrible burden if you let it be, but it…
— Paul Tsongas
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Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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The world is still a fantastic and wondrous place to live.
— Seal
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