Quotes About Wonder

As he looked at his reflection in the dresser mirror, he felt that recurring surprise that the tall, attractive man staring back was he, and beyond that was the wonder that the image bore no real relationship to the man himself.

True, the same visitor concedes, in the city you will also 'see the most beautiful sights on earth'

Consolémonos por ignorar las relaciones que pueden existir entre una araña y un anillo de Saturno, y sigamos examinando lo que está a nuestro alcance. Voltaire.

The earth seemed almost to move with me…. I had found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never dreamt existed.

There may be no more pleasing picture in the world than that of a child peering into a book - the past and the future entrancing each other.

Did you see the frightened ones? Did you hear the falling bombs? Did you ever wonder Why we had to run for shelter When the promise of a brave new world Unfurled beneath the clear blue sky?

Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure...

Vet jeg hvor virkeligheten er? Er jeg rot eller er jeg krone? Er det ikke stjerner også der, av svakt lysende sten?

It's a wonder that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

Mass communication--wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued--presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)

Je n'avais encore jamais vu un sourire aussi immuable et je me demandais si elle l'enlevait pour dormir.

Les gens tiennent à la vie plus qu'à n'importe quoi, c'est même marrant quand on pense à toutes les belles choses qu'il y a dans le monde.

Wszystko w tym opowiadaniu jest prawdÄ… - chyba tylko prócz dialogów: nie mam takiej nadludzkiej pamiÄ™ci. DochodzÄ™ zresztÄ… powoli do przekonania, ?e w ogóle nic nadludzkiego we mnie nie ma. Bardzo mnie to dziwi, ale trudno.

Non so se sia un uccello, una farfalla o una lucertola, perché la fantasia infantile si era guardata bene dal privarlo di tutte le sue possibilità.

il se demandait parfois jusqu'où on pouvait aller nulle part.

Why do we mortals wonder if it is through 'human chaos' or through 'divine perfection' when the world guides us to some magical event? In either case, is not the result the same? Is the result not 'divine perfection?

Ah, youth! It was a beautiful night... The moon was out of orbit. The stars were awry. But everything else was exactly as it should have been.

Visions from the gods are gifts alone for those who wander.

The poet believed that 'Beauty' first entered the world not at its creation, nor with the first garden, the first sunrise, the birth of the first man and woman and their first sexual act. The poet believed that 'Beauty' entered the world the day the first child blushed.

To make your life a work of wonder go into the night and wander; penetrate the world asunder, to find your fate in someplace fonder.

Off in the distance there were galleons of shock-white cumulus coulds gathering in the wide sky's cerulean harbor, and their azure shadows floated over the flatlands. Billy surprised himself by saying: "I love it here. I'll never leave.

No one talked as Jesse moved - it was as if his acts were miracles of invention wonderous to behold.

Time moves more slowly when you're young, because life is still new to you, a process of discovery.

Win-win solutions are ideal but not common with strategic choices. When we hear someone talk "win-wins," we wonder if anything really lasting is going to change.