Quotes About Wonder

The executed men were cursed, and praised, and doubted, and despised, and held to account, and blackened, and wondered at, and mourned, all in a confusion complicated infinitely by the site of war.

A lucky man is a man you want fighting near you and he gives the needful sense that the world is a thing of mysteries and wonders. That it's bigger than you, bigger than all the shit and blood you seen, That God might be in it somehow looking out for you.

After all, the cherry blossom blooms every year, but does anyone find it the less lovely for that?

So many other planets & stars -- could all those stars set over barren planets, beauty wasted? Or, are sunsets witnessed throughout the universe?

Dagegen fühlten jetzt alle, die Beflügelten und die Flügellosen, einen Drang in sich, ungeheuer hoch hinaufzusteigen, ja bis über die Wolken hinauf, um zu sehen, was sich darüber befinde, einen Drang, den schweren Körper zu verlassen, der sie auf die Erde hinabzog, und nach dem Überirdischen hinzuschweben.

Mi sebi rado postavljamo metafizi?ka pitanja o svijetu, životu i ?ovjeku. A trebali bismo iznova i stalno pitati: zašto s tolikim naporom i mukom živimo, kad znamo da ?emo ovdje biti samo jednom i kad imamo tako kratko i neponovljivo vrijeme u ovom neopisivo lijepom svijetu?

What sort of woman would do that—give up her life so easily, sacrificing her freedom for her father's? The Beast wondered if he was capable of such a sacrifice. He wondered if he was capable of love.

The sky, they thought, was particularly breathtaking at twilight; it was their magic hour, when everything looked perfect and they felt anything was possible.

ANTON LOVED PRAGUE. In fact, he simply couldn't understand how it was possible not to. There were some cities that confused you and suffocated you from the first, and there were some whose charm slowly and imperceptibly fascinated you.

Astound me! I'll wait for you to astound me.

I've always thought of the sky as, like, an open canvas. When I was a kid and I looked at the sky, I always remember being able to daydream, just looking at the sky, being creative, being able to design things. What would happen if we had no sky? Where would we be? Well, obviously, scientifically, without an atmosphere, we'd all be dead.

It was a sort of peace I have rarely enjoyed since. As if we were the only two souls on earth—all of nature ours to enjoy. I wondered why a creator who had dreamt such beauty would have slandered it with such evil. Such grief. Why He had not been content to leave it unspoilt. I still wonder.

Don't you think the Gods put some thought into where they put the prostate gland?

The books I like...contain things to ponder, ignore, memorize, and laugh and wonder at.

The theory of evolution also had a very great effect in alienating science from religion and creating a world in which one could go about studying the wonders of creation without ever having a sense of wonder in the religious sense of that term.

It is important to approach Maths only in a spirit of curiosity and discovery...

We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

I have come to believe that when we live in a way that requires miracles, we will start to see them.

I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said? .

It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did.

So she tried all the magical passwords she could think of. "Abracadabra. Open sesame. Sim salabim. Alakazam. Hocus pocus. Voilà. Please.

and curiouser. Maddie supposed she would never totally understand this nonsensical world

entered the library, and could do nothing but stare in wonder...She wondered if she should curtsy as if she were entering a chapel.

Wonderland, Maddie had yet to see