Wonder Quotes - page 2

We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door. (Djuna Barnes)
Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children's faces looking up Holding wonder like a cup. View quote
Sara Teasdale
I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie. View quote
Edith Wharton
It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike. View quote
Thomas Browne
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man. View quote
Arnold Bennett
Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all. View quote
Bob Dole
Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life. View quote
Václav Havel
Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky. View quote
Lewis Carroll
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing. View quote
Gamal Abdel Nasser
I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. (Ray Bradbury)
But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. View quote
Katharine Hepburn
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. View quote
Plato
Wisdom begins in wonder. View quote
Socrates
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. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
LOVE He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) View quote
Albert Einstein
Some people work an entire lifetime and wonder if they ever made a difference to the world. But the Marines don't have that problem. View quote
Ronald Reagan
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Chan's heart knew only greed, but there was within him enough intelligence to wonder before a man who could see all the uselessness of life, and still exult in the possessing of it. (Lin Carter)
We're all talking about the same thing, whether it's religious people or New Age spiritual people or Buddhists or scientists. We're all talking about having a sense of awe and wonder at something grander than ourselves. View quote
Michael Shermer
He who wonders discovers that this is in itself a wonder. View quote
M. C. Escher
I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question. View quote
Adnan Oktar
Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of. View quote
Robert Frost