Top 1200 Awe And Wonder Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I've long wanted to introduce children to the wonder of the arts.

Want me to Stevie Wonder my way to the bathroom?

Tony Blair is a decent man who genuinely thinks what he is doing is justified. But when he sees men such as George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld smirking and boasting as they announce their Shock and Awe offensive, we hope he understands why we believe we have been dragged into something we should have been fighting tooth and nail to stop.

No wonder the teacher knows so much; she has the book.

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

I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began to blow, the most mournful that ever ear heard. Mournful! That is saying nothing. It was a wind that had swept the fields of mortality for a hundred centuries.

The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.

Let me tell you, writing comics is as hard as anything I've ever done - for me, at least. I'm now officially in awe of guys who can crank out multiple books a month and maintain a high level of quality. Comics are completely different than any other medium I've dabbled in.

What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

No wonder I won the Games. NO decent person ever does.

Yet what is more awesome: to believe that God created everything in six days, or to believe that the biosphere came into being on its own, with no creator, and partially lawlessly? I find the latter proposition so stunning, so worthy of awe and respect, that I am happy to accept this natural creativity in the universe as a reinvention of 'God.'

I truly feel like I'm a living Wonder Woman.

In the end I would rather wonder than know

I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for.

[True beauty] seeps into you. It doesn't make you forget yourself, but totally the opposite. It connects you with everything and fills you with awe that you share the same space with something that glorious. Like a sunrise or a clear blue day or the most extraordinary piece of glass. And then suddenly...you have this epiphany that there's more to the world than just you and what you want or even who you are.

They say time heals all wounds, but sometimes you wonder.

No wonder Delhi is known for its fashion, everyone is so stylish here!

The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.

How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn't a question of survival at all. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care.

Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?

I did wonder what it would be like if I could have hair.

Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe. Their very absurdity seems to prohibit the use of the words 'chance' and 'coincidence.' For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman Law, it is administered with sub-human inefficiency.

Fear in the biblical sense... includes being afraid of someone, but it extends to holding someone in awe, being controlled or mastered by people, worshipping other people, putting your trust in people, or needing people.

The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator.

He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."

I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.

I was 13 years old when I first heard of the Sultan of Brunei. The absolute ruler of a tiny, oil-rich kingdom in Southeast Asia, Hassanal Bolkiah was the subject of a much-discussed TV documentary by the British filmmaker Alan Whicker in 1992. As a young teenager, sitting in front of the television, I was in awe of this Muslim king.

Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...a cknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.

Wonder what customers really want? Ask. Don't Tell.

A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was in God's power to take away his life while he slept and hurl his soul hellward ere he could beg for mercy.

If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!

Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong.

I wonder if Louis Ferreira would be interested in directing.

We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.

I wonder how many eggs are in the golden goose?

The capacity for total wonder is the very substance of awakening.

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.

When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all.

I want the wonder back again, or I shall die.

I'm not the one-take wonder that a lot people think I am.

Sometimes you wonder, do referees understand the game of football?

Because I've never had any higher education of any sort, I've never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don't.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

I'm inordinately proud of Smash, on so many levels. The complexity of producing that show, every week, is just incredible. As a television producer and as a Broadway producer, which I once was, I am in awe of what we can do on that show, every week.

I wonder why I keep playing such intelligent people?

Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.

Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forgets to entertain us along the way. Shock and awe applies to art, as well.

Because today, I think I'm leaning on the side of wonder.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

No one knows what I am and really, I wonder if I do, at the end of the day.

I can't be a one-hit wonder - though, I don't think that is going to be the case.

I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.

My heroes are guys like Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon. These are amazing actors with amazing careers that every actor should aspire to. I'm not saying I'm going to get anywhere close. It's not going to be an easy feat. I'm just in awe of their careers.

In Scripture the visitation of an angel is always alarming; it has to begin by saying 'Fear not.' The Victorian angel looks as if it were going to say, 'There, there.' The literary symbols are more dangerous [than sculptures and pictures] because they are not so easily recognized as symbolical. Those of Dante are best. Before his angels we sink in awe.

No wonder this circuit failed. It says 'Made in Japan'.

I wonder why we get scrutinised all the time for what we wear?

I often wonder why I attract so much criticism.