Quotes About Wonder

What is the answer? she asked, and when no answer came she laughed and said: Then, what is the question?

omne ignotum pro magnifico est).

Se gli compro una cometa il mio bambino chissà cosa combina.» E il mago: «Ma fatevi coraggio! I vostri bambini andranno sulle stelle, cominciate ad abituarli da piccoli.»

Chissà se la luna di Kiev è bella come la luna di Roma, chissà se è la stessa o soltanto sua sorella… "Ma son sempre quella! – la luna protesta – non sono mica un berretto da notte sulla tua testa! Viaggiando quassù faccio lume a tutti quanti, dall'India al Perù, dal Tevere al Mar Morto, e i miei raggi viaggiano senza passaporto".

Look at the mountains. Look and the oceans! No one else can change the oceans into mountains or mountains into oceans, because the work of God's hands is the greatest.

But like all wonders, natural or otherwise, it made your own life seem temporary, and it told you things about the passage of time you didn't want to know.

There is fire and fire: The fire that burns and the fire that gives warmth, a fire that sets a forest ablaze and the fire that puts a cat to sleep. So is it with self-love. The member that once seemed one of the wonders of the world soon becomes as homely as an old slipper. Mathew and himself gradually ceased to excite each other.

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.

I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.

Whether by plane, bus or carpet, own the magic in your ride.

Stop now and always wonder. Press forward and tap the wonder.

An unlimited supply of wonder and trust, bolsters life lived as a process of discovery.

Ten years ago I wondered, "How does one travel around the world? How does one step out of a well-established life to follow the dream?" I've answered those questions. But now new ones emerge.

et quid amabo nisi quod ænigma est?

A Å¡ta da ljudim, ako ne zagonetku?

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

Why is the sea sometimes green and sometimes turquoise, sometimes white and sometimes as black as lava? Why is it never just the colour of water?' Alessi asked. ?'It's God's will,' his grandfather said. 'That way the sailor knows when he can go out to sea and when it's best to stay on shore.

Pays de muets, pays de la belle endormie, merveilleux mais sans vie parce qu'y manque le souffle de la liberté. Aujourd'hui comme hier.

Quale canto s'è levato stanotte che intesse di cristallina eco del cuore le stelle

Faith was a choice. So, it followed, was wonder.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

She knew him. Somehow. And wasn't that quite marvelous?

Carter, who'd never seen a ghost, nonetheless found the idea of them wonderful. Who wouldn't want to see a ghost? Whenever he visited the park at night, he saw nothing. On weekend afternoons, he detoured through its rambles on his way to the ferry, watching the boaters, the Sunday painters, the wild and frantic children, and he thought how odd it was that the same joyful places, minus sunlight, became frightening.