Quotes with wonder

Quotes 101 till 120 of 160.

  • Søren Kierkegaard Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Art Buchwald So far things are going my way. I am known in the hospice as The Man Who Wouldn't Die. I don't know if this is true or not, but I think some people, not many, are starting to wonder why I'm still around.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • Bob Dole Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all.
    Source: Reported in Tom Crisp, The Book of Bob: Choice Words, Memorable Men (2007)
    Bob Dole
    American politician and attorney (1923 - )
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  • Boman Irani Sometime you go out and you wonder why these people are standing in the rain, and then you realize that years ago you were a fan, too. I, too, was chased by cops for watching my favourite celebrities.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg Sometimes I think back to everything I've been through, and I wonder, 'Man, how the hell did I get here?'
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Katharine Hepburn Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • Vaclav Havel Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Stevie Wonder Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.
    Stevie Wonder
    American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer (1950 - )
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  • Ben Okri The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Bobby Bowden The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I really kept thinking they would. I took my boys to church. I took my football team to church. I only did it two times a year. Before I signed a kid, I'd write the parents and I'd tell that parent we were gong to take your son to church twice.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • H. Adams The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it.
    H. Adams
     
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bruno Bettelheim The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
    Bruno Bettelheim
    Austrian-born psychologist, scholar and author (1903 - 1990)
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  • Gamal Abdel Nasser The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing.
    Gamal Abdel Nasser
    Egyptian president and general (1918 - 1970)
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  • Jacques-Yves Cousteau The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
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  • Raymond Chandler The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Mark Twain The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Albert Einstein The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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