Top 1200 Wonder Of The World Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

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

My mother would make a good Wonder Woman.

You meet people in the business and wonder how compassionate they are.

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

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

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

Wonder Woman is not horrible. Her villains should be.

For what you call the Law is but a club of the rich over the lowest of men, sanctifying the conquest of the earth by a few and making their theft the way of things. But over and above these pitiful statutes of yours that enclose the common land and reduce us to poverty to make you fat stands the Law of Creation, which renders judgement on rich and poor alike, making them one. For freedom is the man who will thus turn the world upside down, therefore no wonder he has enemies

And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world between two boards and typeset, I am astonished. Perhaps the event has an unassailable truth. God saw it. God knows. But I am not God. And so when someone tells me what they heard or saw, I believe them, and I believe their friend who also saw, but not in the same way, and I can put these accounts together and I will not have a seamless wonder but a sandwich laced with mustard of my own.

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I always have something by Stevie Wonder in my CD player.

What's fascinating to me is the way that multiple stories go into creating any world - a fictional world, but certainly the world that we live in as well. Of course, I cannot control that world. I can just control the fictional world.

Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.

Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots!" I said keeping my voice down. "Will you just put a stopper in it?" She looked at me and sighed. "Girl, do you ever take a breath and wonder if folk don't put out bait for you? To see if you'll bite? You'll never get a man if you don't relax." My dear old Gran. It's a wonder her children aren't every one of them as mad as priests, if she mangles their wits as she mangles mine. "Granny, "I told her, "this is dead serious. I can't relax, no more than any Dog. I'm not shopping for a man. That's the last thing I need.

I wonder that you will still be talking. Nobody marks you.

What we know of the world comes to us through words, or, to look at it from the other direction, when we write a sentence, we create a world, which is not the world, but the world as is appears within a dimension of assessment.

I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the ordinary things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the snow lay around my doorstep - great heaps of protons quietly precessing in the earth’s magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

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

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

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

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

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder

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

Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?

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

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

I always wonder why birds stay in the same place.

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

In the end I would rather wonder than know

Abra DeMadrigal didn't look young enough to be my sister anymore. Her sorrow weighed her down and aged her. She was still beautiful, but she looked very far away. No wonder our people had raven eyes, so distant, so sad. No matter how wise she was, my mother looked like a woman who hadn't truely believed how much evil there was in our world. Not until this moment.

I wonder how many eggs are in the golden goose?

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

I wonder if in 2050 there will be a movie called, 'Dude, Where's My Spaceship'

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

A society that could heal the dismembered world would recognize the inherent value of each person and of the plant, animal and elemental life that makes up the earth's living body; it would offer real protection, encourage free expression, and reestablish an ecological balance to be biologically and economically sustainable. Its underlying metaphor would be mystery, the sense of wonder at all that is beyond us and around us, at the forces that sustain our lives and the intricate complexity and beauty of their dance.

Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

I'm So Sick is about how the world can sometimes be a sick and messed up place and how that influences us and tells us how we should live or who we should be. People do things just 'cause everyone else does and then they wonder why they feel empty all the time. Someone who has a firm stance in what they know to be true will empower empty followers to discover who they are as individuals with purposes and this creates leaders with voices of their own.

The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

It's no wonder we know how to dress; we've spent centuries in closets.

The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.

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

Love, wonder, joy & awareness are the gifts of innocence.

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

Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, "who's that at the piano?"

Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.

In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance of keeping our sense of wonder. The strange worlds that exist in the pages of fantastic literature teach us a tolerance of other people and places and engender an openness toward new experience. Fantasy puts the world into perspective in a way that 'realistic' literature rarely does. It is not so much an escape from the here-and-now as an expansion of each reader's horizons.

Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you.

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because fear is at the basis of those two things. In this world we can now begin a little to understand things, and a little to master them by the help of science, which has forced its way step by step against the Christian religion, against the churches, and against the opposition of all the old precepts.

In Donald Trump, you have somebody who praises Vladimir Putin all the time. America should really wonder about a President Trump, who had a campaign manager with ties to Putin, pro- Putin elements in the Ukraine, who had to be fired for that reason. They should wonder - when Donald Trump is sitting down with Vladimir Putin, is it going to be America's bottom line or is it going to be Donald Trump's bottom line that he's going to be worried about with all of his business dealings?

I wonder if Louis Ferreira would be interested in directing.

The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.

When you start a new project, you wonder whether it's the right choice.

Sometimes you wonder if television is really affecting the culture.

I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.

Hamlet has been played by 5,000 actors, no wonder he is crazy.

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

We seek a peaceful world, a prosperous world, a free world, a world of good neighbors, living on terms of equality and mutual respect, as Canada and the United States have lived for generations.