Wonder Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Sarah: That's not fair! Jareth: You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is?

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

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.

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.

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

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

It's no wonder we're all such a mess, is it? We're like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and forced to get on with it.

Life is too short to be wondering, 'What if?'

Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.

None but God would ever have thought of justifying me. I am a wonder to myself.

Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.

People call me Wayne Wonder and it also goes back to football because I could do mad skills with the ball and people would marvel and wonder how I could do it.

We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.

When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?

Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.

If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort of spring rash.

Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.

It's no wonder there is a mad scramble for victim status on many campuses today. It confers authority and prestige.

Thanks to the growing strength of environmental organizations, there will always be some back country to provide us with a touch of wonder and a breath of fresh air.

I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.

I gradually stopped wondering, ‘What life do I have?' and began to consider, ‘What life can I build?

I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day things, the waste of time, of ourselves.

It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.

Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learnt to enjoy simple things like covert malice at one another's expense.

I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.

It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

I'm sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what's wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.

I wonder why we hate the past so.

I really like narrative songs, but I wonder if that's a thing for some people. Once they've heard the story, do they really need to hear the story again?

I believe that the most necessary thing to do on the feast of Corpus Christi is not to explain some aspect of the Eucharist, but to revive wonder and marvel before the mystery.

It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.

It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.

Ever wonder where you'd end up if you took your dog for a walk and never once pulled back on the leash?

As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either.

I'm wondering how many more mistakes I'll have to make before things finally fall into place. If they ever will.