Wonder Quotes

• I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Wonder
  • Mistake
  • Regret

• At the same time, though, I was beginning to wonder if this was just how it was supposed to be for me, like perhaps I wasn't capable of having that many people in my life at any one time. My mom turned up, Nate walked away, one door opening as another clicked shut.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • People
  • Mom
  • Doors

• What do you do when you don't know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than in any other profession.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Wonder

• I feel that people have asked me my age I don't actually think that thirty is particularly young for a first book to come out. And I sometimes wonder if a male author would have been asked this question so frequently.

  

  Dana Goldstein
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Book

• If you wonder what the difference between them and me is, I'll break the news: you never heard of them. Most of them ... can fight almost as good as I can. I'm just saying you never heard of them.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Wonder
  • Break
  • Heard

• They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Knowledge
  • Resist
  • Lunatic

• I often think of that rare fulfilling joy, when I am in the presence of some wonderful alignment of events. Where the light, the colour, the shapes and the balance all interlock so beautifully that I feel truly overwhelmed by the wonder of it.

  

  Charlie Waite
  • Light
  • Balance
  • Shapes

• A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.

  

  Heather O'Neill
  • World
  • Children
  • Poverty

• A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Happiness
  • Smile
  • Motivational

• You can't undo yesterday, you can work on today, tomorrow, you will wonder how you screwed up 2 days in a row

  

  Eddie Long
  • Today
  • Tomorrow
  • Clever

• Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.

  

  Richard L. Evans
  • Men
  • Sleep
  • Pleasure

• I wonder what would have happened if automation and computers had existed when 'Oklahoma!' was having its out-of-town try-out, and three days before closing in Boston, when it was still called 'Away We Go,' they added a new song called 'Oklahoma!' I don't think that could happen today. It's almost impossible to change musicals on the go now.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Today
  • Song
  • Wonder

• Deliriously imagined, The Mothering Coven is a work of wonder. Joanna Ruocco arrives: marvelous, and fully sprung!

  

  Carole Maso
  • Wonder
  • The Mothering Coven
  • Joanna Ruocco

• Sometimes I wonder how we can be so sure what it is God sees. How arrogant we are, I sometimes think, to imagine there's someone watching us every minute. To think our every action matters that much.

  

  Carolyn Parkhurst
  • Action
  • Sometimes
  • Matter

• It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Children
  • Wonder
  • Philosopher

• I wonder whats wrong with me. Sometimes I just keep wanting to go deeper and deeper into the world of self destruction. Like as if I want to see myself fail completely and disappear.

  

  Daul Kim
  • World
  • Sometimes
  • Disappear

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

  

  Cecil Taylor
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder
  • Piano

• The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Fall
  • Optimistic
  • Pessimist

• Certainly 'Wonder Woman' needed to be made, and I'm so beyond thrilled with how it came out. I met Patty Jenkins, and I told her, 'I'm sure you're going to make a sequel, and if you need anybody Amazonian, there's always me. I'm available.'

  

  Geena Davis
  • Wonder

• Genes are mysterious things, still unpredictable after all of our research, flecks of humanity that can destroy lives but, just as often, can teach us to appreciate the strange wonder of our existence.

  

  Monica Hesse
  • Humanity
  • Teach
  • Appreciate

• If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is.

  

  Richard Rohr
  • Change
  • Religion
  • Engage

• Nature has endowed the earth with glorious wonders and vast resources that we may use for our own ends. Regardless of our tastes or our way of living, there are none that present more variations to tax our imagination than the soil, and certainly none so important to our ancestors, to ourselves, and to our children.

  

  Charles Kellogg
  • Important
  • Children
  • Earth

• Where does a child of mine get all that hair, I wonder? Arthur’s not exceptionally hirsute, and the men on my side of the family are as bald as potatoes. I must have had an affair with a gorilla before he was born, but you’d think I’d remember something like that, wouldn’t you? ... Be a dear and remind me to leave my brandy flask at home the next time I visit the zoo.

  

  Bart Yates
  • Family
  • Home
  • Remember

• Who should make a great movie about Wonder Woman? It should be somebody who loves Wonder Woman. And I know that I'm that. So let's go and try.

  

  Patty Jenkins
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Wonder

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