Quotes with wonder

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  • Edith Wharton I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Gerry Spence I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
    Gerry Spence
     
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  • Bruce Vilanch I've learned that most of gay America is coupled up, or looking to be. No wonder gay marriage has such traction. So many of us are already in it, so of course we want the legal benefits.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • John Barrymore I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
    John Barrymore
    American actor (1882 - 1942)
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  • Rachel Carson If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
    Rachel Carson
    American marine biologist, author, and conservationist (1907 - 1964)
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  • C. S. Lewis If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.
    Source: Mere Christianity
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh In a deep moment of love, thinking stops. The moment is so intriguing, the moment is so tremendously powerful, the moment is so intensely alive, that thinking stops. You are simply in awe, a great wonder surrounds you.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Leo Rosten In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
    Leo Rosten
    Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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  • Aldous Huxley Industrial man -a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • William Booth It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?
    William Booth
    English Methodist preacher (1829 - 1912)
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  • Ben Shapiro It is no wonder that advocates of Obamacare blindly push forward with their agenda to force religious Americans to violate their own precepts: in the war between the state and the individual, religion is on the side of the individual and his or her relationship with God. That is why symbolic prayer matters. It is symbolic.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Kingsley Amis It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Aristotle It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Victor Serge It's a question to ask ourselves if we're not mad. But who are the madmen, in God's name? Those who wonder about it, or the others? If we ever began to speak out loud, what would they do with us, tell me?
    Victor Serge
     
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  • Anne Frank It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Billie Jean King It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • John Donne Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain's race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with Astronomy.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Pearl S. Buck Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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