Wonder Quotes - Page 22

• All good trips are, like love, about being carried out of yourself and deposited in the midst of terror and wonder.

  Pico Iyer

  Like Love, Midst, Terror

  "Why We Travel". picoiyerjourneys.com. March 18, 2000.

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• It is more erotic to wonder if you're about to be kissed than it is to be kissed.

  Roger Ebert

  Erotic, Ifs

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• Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

  Alan Watts

  Self, People, Curiosity

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• We are in the days of miracles and wonders that will eventually eclipse those of any other time.

  Rick Joyner

  Miracle, Eclipse

  FaceBook post by Rick Joyner from Jun 14, 2014

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• We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Reading, Sea, Library

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe. Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. ...I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Dear Lord, Numbers, Grace

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• I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.

  Billy Connolly

  Growing Up, Mean, Thinking

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• The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.

  Octavio Paz

  Purpose, Possibility, Mankind

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• I wanted to have more songs with religious backgrounds. The Christmas record has strong, traditional hymns, but it also has a song called 'Christmas in Heaven' about missing someone that you love that's passed on, and wondering what's going on up there on Christmas.

  Scotty McCreery

  Song, Religious, Strong

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• The greatest reward for a children's author is in knowing that our efforts might stir the minds and hearts of young readers with a vision and wonder of the world and themselves that may be new to them or reveal something already familiar in new and enlightening ways.

  Charles Ghigna

  Children, Heart, Knowing

  "Quotes on Writing". Personal Website, www.charlesghigna.com.

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• I wonder if we have a lot of sons running around saying, "I want a Dad." But you won't abide in anyone.

  Judah Smith

  Running, Dad, Son

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• The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie still in us, like our fears. It will die in peace and leave us what the child leaves to the man - the sense of wonder.

  Anais Nin

  Children, Lying, Men

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• I wonder why anyone would hesitate to be generous with their writing. I mean, if you really want to make a living, go to Wall Street and trade oil futures ... We're writers. We're doing something that is inherently a generous act. We're exposing ourselves to the muse and to the things that frighten us. Why do that if you're not willing to be generous? And paradoxically, almost ironically, it turns out that the more generous you are, the more money you make. But that's secondary. For me, the privilege of being generous is why I get to do this.

  Seth Godin

  Wall, Writing, Mean

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• On the whole I feel that life has treated me rather well, but I sometimes wonder how well have I treated life.

  Lawrence Fagg

  Sometimes, Wells, Feels

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.41, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.

  Vance Havner

  Heart, Men, Hands

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• To walk on not wondering am I right or doing something wrong.

  Meister Eckhart

  Walks

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• Three and a half million years ago our ancestors - yours and mine - left these traces [indicates footprints]. We stood up and parted ways from them. Once we were standing on two feet, our eyes were no longer fixated on the ground. Now, we were free to look up and wonder.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Eye, Two, Feet

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• People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.

  W. Edwards Deming

  People, Example, Looks

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• How you all will change the work after I am gone. If I came back a hundred years from now, I just wonder if I would even recognize it.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Years, Gone, Hundred

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• I kind of like it when a lot of people die, and on the other hand I always wonder how many unused frequent-flier miles they had.

  George Carlin

  Hands, People, Kind

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• In case any are puzzled by the different translations from which I draw strength and help and delight, it is like this: In studying any object with the microscope we use different lenses and turn the mirror in various ways; each change brings out some new wonder and beauty. So it is for those who are not Greek or Hebrew scholars, and who use the work of scholars to open the meaning of the exhaustible Word-the Bible is richer than any single version can fully show.

  Amy Carmichael

  Mirrors, Greek, Different

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• Life's been good to me. Why am I so lonely and bored? I used to wonder why so many rich men commit suicide. I no longer wonder.

  O. J. Simpson

  Suicide, Lonely, Men

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• Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep. They manage it because little by little, we make them that. We overlook too much in the beginning and wonder why we lost control in the end.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Littles, Too Much, Lost

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• I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder. It's a very powerful emotion. All children feel it. In a first grade classroom everybody feels it; in a twelfth grade classroom almost nobody feels it, or at least acknowledges it. Something happens between first and twelfth grade, and it's not just puberty. Not only do the schools and the media not teach much skepticism, there is also little encouragement of this stirring sense of wonder. Science and pseudoscience both arouse that feeling. Poor popularizations of science establish an ecological niche for pseudoscience.

  Carl Sagan

  Encouragement, Children, Powerful

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• Hillary Clinton began a New York thank-you tour Friday by calling for the abolition of the Electoral College. No wonder Arkansas never liked her. She hasn't been in office three days and already she's an abolitionist.

  Argus Hamilton

  Friday, New York, College

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