Wonder Quotes

In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.

The letter . . . What did your lords make of it, I wonder?” Stannis snorted. “Celtigar pronounced it admirable. If I showed him the contents of my privy, he would declare that admirable as well.

Whenever I meet someone, I try to imagine her wearing an invisible sign that says: MAKE ME FEEL IMPORTANT. I respond to this sign immediately, and it works wonders.

I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.

The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.

I often wonder how different the world would be if Hitler had not been turned down when he applied to art school.

Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.

I just always wonder if I'm too obsessive about subjects. I try to avoid that.

I have always been curious about other people. I wonder what goes on in their minds, whether they are good, or bad and I wonder about their lives.

The wonder of immaculate, perfect, pure mind is that when it is in its perfect, extant state without confusion, it can be anything it wants to be.

While drawing grasses I learn nothing 'about' grass, but wake up to the wonder that there is grass at all.

President Obama insists hes a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.

I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did.

And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

Every song that I start to write, I wonder if I'll be able to write it.

There's no way we can possibly understand anything. But we can see things, we can perceive things, and we can wonder. We can just be in a world of awe and wonder. That's the best we can do.

A map, it is said, organizes wonder.

If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

I wish to explore the beauty of everyday environments; in troubled times it is especially important to be aware of beauty and wonder.

One of the greatest things about playing a villain is people wondering when he's going to make his comeback.

The need to eat, sleep and dry out plays havoc with your sense of wonder.

Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT, and I wonder about Apple.

The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to the law of nature, such as they interpreted it.

I wonder why rich people always grow fat I suppose it's because there's nothing to worry them.

You don't ask, you don't get.

We create a mask to meet the masks of others. Then we wonder why we cannot love, and why we feel so alone.

It’s not wondering what I breathe in, but who, that threatens to choke me.

Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!

The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous - because of knowledge, because it thinks it knows.

Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we've resisted, Our places are assigned.

Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.

Ploutos , no wonder mortals worship you: You are so tolerant of their sins !

If you spent a proper amount of time with me, you would probably wonder if I was on drugs - I'm not. I'm just incredibly hyperactive and manic. I can be quiet and serious at the same time.

Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth. You're an idiot babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.

I think Stevie Wonder could sing the phone book and manage to make me cry.

Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.

This old world keeps spinnin’ round; It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down.

Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.

I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost...but won't. It is sad to be able only to mouth other poets. I want someone to mouth me.

Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more.

He knows I rip him off every day. He's the godfather for me. Nobody can say they aren't influenced by what Stevie Wonder has done.

Simply put, ObamaCare cost Americans jobs through uncertainty and now implementation threatens even more jobs. No wonder the majority of Americans continue to oppose it.

What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button?