Wonder Quotes

The wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too.

If she kept wondering about how much of her life Bran engineered, she’d end up on a funny farm knitting caps for ducks.

In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.

We tend to idealize tolerance, then wonder why we find ourselves infested with losers and nut cases.

Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?"No," he said. "They're the ones who are asking for too little."

I just stand there like a doofus wondering just what in the effing blazes is going on.

I was just wondering why you're here.

Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it.

Social media could be very strong in terms of bringing people together but it also takes up so much of people's time that I wonder if we've lost the ability to daydream.

I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.

It's not easy being so frightened of everything. And when I think of how much I've improved in the last year, I wonder when I'll ever get finished with making changes and be really grown up.

The Olympics is not a race I want to watch on television and think 'I wonder what I could have done if I was there?

I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted - if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.

Life is the wonder with which we are all infused.

Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.

I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know.

The most wonderful revenge you can have is by dumping an attractive, vacant man for an uglier one. That way all of his friends can scratch their heads, and for the next year or so wonder why.

Kevin Kline gives a master class in acting. He finds every nuance of mirth and melancholy in this wonder of a role and rides it to glory. You can't take your eyes off him.

I wonder who I left behind on the other side of fame.

I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.

In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real.

The more you read the novella, the more you should wonder, I think, which judgments are to be taken as bedrock.

Whenever someone wonders how I could have written 57 books, I remind them that Isaac Asimov wrote 500 books.

To put one brick upon another, Add a third, and then a fourth, Leaves no time to wonder whether What you do has any worth.

I think you're a wonder. You're beautiful. You're mature. You are, I admit, vastly more experienced than I am. That's what threw me. I was thrown. Forgive me.

I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?

How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons

Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people leave prison more broken than when they went in.

When I see my work in a gallery I often wonder how I got to this point. Sometimes the process of making the work feels like a blur, and I look at the work and wonder how I actually made it.

Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal.

He was alone in his wonderment, amoung creatures incapable of wonder --for them it was enough to exist and go their way.

I tweet myself and do all the Facebook updates. It started off with me wondering whether I was showing off and I was very careful about what I wrote.

I really like defensive players. I've never played defense so I often wonder how they think.

Most people spend less than 20 hrs a year learning about freedom, yet many wonder why it's in decline. Don't fight upstream. Instead, turn it around.

See me looking like Atlas, when he handle the globe. I see you looking like Alice, Wonderland is your home. It makes me wonder if you practice your flow.

Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky.

If they can shut down ABC News and ABC network programming just because they don't agree on something, it makes you wonder

Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

What do you do when you don't know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than in any other profession.

... then he offers me his arm. As I take it, I wonder what folly decreed that women cannot walk unassisted.

What's better, I wonder - to be a toy for the humans, or to control your own destiny , even if the only way to do so is suicide?

But she's not, and I am left to wonder on my own: How does this work, the getting to know a new guy without revealing too much desperation for his undivided attention?

Sometimes, I see and hear stories, especially those that involve children, and I wonder if this is hell and we are trying to get into heaven.

I'm afraid," Professor Piper said, "afraid that you're never going to discover what you're truly capable of. That you won't get to see-that I won't get to see-any of the wonder that's inside of you.

I wonder…,” she said, “if there was such a thing as time machines, would anyone ever use them to go to the future?

Don't call it uncertainty-call it wonder.

A smile can work wonders. Put it to work for you.

What does he [Pope Francis] mean, "Who am I to judge?" People think he's fantastic, but they also wonder how some of these pieces fit.

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.