Quotes About Wonder

Though all I whisper in your ear is true, truth's not always evident or just; sometime's it's brutal as a fist. You scratch your head. You wonder what to do. You have no choice. You must persist.

la contemplation de la beauté était un pansement sur la laideur. Il en avait toujours été ainsi. Quand il se sentait mal, il allait se promener dans un musée. Le merveilleux demeurait la meilleure arme contre la fragilité.

the fact that he'd never before seen her in the evening. He was just short of being astounded that she could exist at this hour. He must have been the type who thought that beauty gets put in a box at night. But it couldn't be true, no, because there she was, facing him.

Peut-on se soigner en se confiant à un tableau ? On parle bien d'art-thérapie, de créer pour exprimer son malaise, pour se comprendre à travers les intuitions de l'inspiration. Mais c'était différent. Pour Antoine, la contemplation de la était un pansement sur la laideur. Il en avait toujours été ainsi. Quand il se sentait mal, il allait se promener dans un musée. Le merveilleux demeurait la meilleure arme contre la fragilité.

Life is full of little surprises. Time travel is full of big ones.

Non smetto di stupirmi per come quest'arida vita abbia improvvisamente deciso di mostrarmi il suo seno prosperoso.

he was almost joyously what he had always been, a lot of gee whiz, it was all new and fresh even when surely he had seen much of it before, and it was as if he took delight in not having been changed externally by all that he had seen.

And do you really never look at anything -- anything at all -- and consider it might be beautiful in itself?

To watch. To wait. To wonder at a world in chaos,' the girl said. 'And hope one day you fools might learn.

Do I dream you? Or you dream me? Or does someone, something bigger than all' - her hands swept the vast constellations above them - 'this beauteous calamity, dream everything we see and more?

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

When you're a kid, and you first start reading grown-up books, it's like looking in a window at night at people who think no one is around.

On belief in miracles) - "The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.

Long before we have reached the last steps of the argument leading to our theory, we are already in Fairyland

no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors to establish.

Obama is so crooked it is a wonder he can walk straight.

A grasp of the cause of the colors of the rainbow doesn't detract from its wonder.

Punctuationally speaking, wonder is a period at the end of a statement we've long taken for granted, suddenly looking up and seeing the sinuous curve of a tall black hat on its head, and realizing it was a question mark all along.

I did wonder what happened when we died, though, and I'd wondered about it for most of my life. Thinking that nothing happened, that there was absolutely nothing following all of this pain, seemed just as silly as magic. No, there had to be something.

I often wonder what kind of a man he would have become. But I think I got a glimpse of that.

At times like these I want to remove my hat to the beauty of the natural world and its Creator.

N'est-ce pas ce qui est si beau dans la vie, le fait que nous ayons parfois l'occasion d'être stupéfaits ?

Surely the great thing about life is that every now and then it springs a surprise on us,