Wonder Quotes - Page 10

• And still I persist in wondering whether folly must always be our nemesis.

  Edgar Pangborn

  Folly, Nemesis, Persist

  Robert Silverberg, Roger Zelazny, Terry Carr, Edgar Pangborn (1973). “An exaltation of stars: transcendental adventures in science fiction”, Ultramarine Pub Co

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• I began writing The Cold Song in the months following my fathers death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: What now? How to proceed?

  Linn Ullmann

  Song, Father, Writing

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• I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!

  Kari Wahlgren

  Coffee, Home, Wonder Woman

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The river is motion, turmoil, rage. As the river flows, it wonders what it would be like to be so still, to take a breath, to rest. But the rock will always wonder what lies around the bend in the stream.

  Kekla Magoon

  Lying, Rocks, Rivers

  Kekla Magoon (2009). “The Rock and the River”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only to be debated and taken seriously when an A List film star took his life, and the world filled with people saying how shocked and saddened they were.

  Alastair Campbell

  Stars, Believe, Taken

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• There's not a drop of hero's blood in my whole body, so spare me the praise. I'm just an ordinary guy, and proud of it. I'm here because I put in the time. I have the blisters on my fingers to prove it. It had nothing to do with coincidence, luck, or the activation of my Wonder Twin powers. I reset the game hundreds of times until my special attack finally went off perfectly. Victory was inevitable. So please, hold off on all the hero talk.

  Hiroshi Sakurazaka

  Hero, Blood, Games

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't make rules myself. I didn't study enough to be able to make them. I'm too stupid. I spend my whole life making movies, so I have to enjoy it. Even at times when we had a very tight and difficult schedule, it was always enjoyable. Of course I wonder if the film will be successful afterwards. It's wonderful if a film becomes successful as a result of the enjoyment that we had

  Takashi Miike

  Stupid, Successful, Schedules

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Music and other forms of art are by far the most effective kind of social-work that exists. A single, nameless one-hit wonder brings more comfort to the world than almost any single psychologist can hope to in a lifetime

  Ian Brennan

  Art, Comfort, World

  Ian Brennan (2016). “How Music Dies (or Lives): Field Recording and the Battle for Democracy in the Arts”, p.79, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I have everything and I have nothing. Sometimes I feel like the loneliest man on the planet. All this stuff and no one to share it with. And then when women come along, I wonder if they like the stuff more than me.

  Aviv Nevo

  Men, Stuff, Sometimes

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• The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman Empire is a really good example of a large empire that, in one form or another, functioned for quite a long time over a very large area. And over all that time, there was all sorts of exciting drama - civil wars and assassinations and revolts and bits breaking off and being forced back in ... But I didn't want my future - however fanciful it was - to be entirely European. The Radchaai aren't meant to be Romans in Space.

  Ann Leckie

  War, Drama, Space

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• The variety of shape, pattern, and color found in the languages of the world is a testament to the wonder of nature, to the breathtaking array of possibilities that can emerge, tangled and wild, from the fertile human endowments of brain and larynx, intelligence and social skills.

  Arika Okrent

  Color, Skills, Tangled

  Arika Okrent (2009). “In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language”, p.5, Spiegel & Grau

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• I would love to play Wonder Woman; I have the abilities and the strength because I am definitely not the typical Hollywood actress.

  Nadia Bjorlin

  Play, Typical, Hollywood

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we're doing, if we're selling it, if the listener likes us. Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.

  Tennessee Williams

  Magic, Want, Might

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• Stevie Wonder is a musical genius !

  Eddie Murphy

  Musical Genius, Musical, Genius

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• "Sabbath is not primarily about us or how it benefits us; it is about God, and how God forms us. It is not, in the first place, about what we do or don't do; it is about God - completing and resting and blessing and sanctifying. These are all things that we don't know much about......But it does mean stopping and being quiet long enough to see - open-mouthed - with wonder - resurrection wonder.....we cultivate the "fear of the Lord". Our souls are formed by what we cannot work up or take charge of. We respond and enter into what the resurrection of Jesus continues to do."

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Jesus, Mean, Blessing

  Eugene H. Peterson (2008). “Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology”, p.150, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.

  Jodi Picoult

  Growing Up, People, Missing

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Leaving Time (with bonus novella Larger Than Life): A Novel”, p.116, Ballantine Books

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• I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.

  Michael Jackson

  Writing, Giving, World

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Natural beauty and wonder are priceless heirlooms which God has bestowed upon our nation. How shall we escape the contempt of the coming generation if we suffer this irreplaceable heritage to be wasted?

  Henry Van Dyke

  Suffering, Generations, Heritage

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• I've never met an ugly millionaire. They all look cute. No wonder I married 4 of them

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Cute, Looks, Ugly

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• May your rivers flow without end... down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs... where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you-beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.

  Edward Abbey

  Beautiful, Dream, Wall

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• As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

  Huston Smith

  Islands, Shoreline, Known

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• Too many companies these days can't tell the difference between good profits and bad.... By now you're probably wondering how in heaven's name profit, that holy grail of the business enterprise, can ever be bad. Short of outright fraud, isn't one dollar of earnings as good as another? Certainly, accountants can't tell the difference between good and bad profits. They all look the same on an income statement. While bad profits don't show up on the books, they are easy to recognize. They're profits earned at the expense of customer relationships.

  Fred Reichheld

  Book, Names, Differences

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• For what is it that angels do? They bring us good news. They open our eyes to moments of wonder, to lovely possibilities, to exemplary people, to the idea that God is here in our midst. They lift our hearts and give us wings.

  Joan Anderson

  Eye, Angel, Heart

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• Most of us have developed a fairly extensive vocabulary for describing pain, as though the journal were a doctor requiring much detail to make the correct diagnosis. The roundness of the spiritual journey cannot be expressed without developing an equally extensive vocabulary for talking to ourselves and others about the nature of wonder, joy, ecstasy, love, transfiguration.

  Christina Baldwin

  Spiritual, Pain, Journey

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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• Parents are used to being made to feel guilty about...their contribution to the population problem, the school tax burden, and declining test scores. They expect to be blamed by teachers and psychologists, if not by police. And they will be blamed by the children themselves. It is hardy a wonder, then, that they withdraw into what used to be called "permissiveness" but is really neglect.

  C. Sommerville

  Teacher, Children, School

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