Wonder Quotes - Page 28

• If you've got red hair, try washing it in cranberry juice. And, if you're blonde, a champagne rinse can work wonders.

  Nicole Kidman

  Hair, Trying, Blonde

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• The comprehensibility of the world seems to me a wonder or eternal secret. Here lies the sense of wonder which increases even more with the development of our knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Lying, Secret, Development

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• Gratitude is the key that unlocks wonder.

  Chris Brown

  Gratitude, Keys

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• Leaders, if you allow wonder to shut down in you, you will shut it down in everyone around you.

  Andy Stanley

  Leader, Ifs

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• Hamlet has been played by 5,000 actors, no wonder he is crazy.

  H. L. Mencken

  Crazy, Actors, Has Beens

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• Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.

  C. S. Lewis

  First Love, People, Novelists

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• I urge a willingness to reserve a place in rational science for non-rational wonder.

  Albert Einstein

  Rational, Reserves, Urges

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• When I started out as Prime Minister I wanted to please all the people all the time. By the end I was wondering if I pleased any of the people any of the time.

  Tony Blair

  People, Prime, Ministers

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• For the past several centuries the bonding power of the family dinner table has been one of the few constants, and now it's binding no more. The potency of the media is now stronger than that of the family. The wonder is that families still exist at all, since the forces of modern life mainly all pull people away from a family centered way of life.

  Larry McMurtry

  Past, Media, People

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance ... or change. Once such incantatory phrases as "we see now through a glass darkly" and "mysterious are the ways". He chooses His wonders to perform" are mastered, logic can be happily tossed out the window". Religious mania is one of the few infallible ways of responding to the world's vagaries, because it totally eliminates pure accident. To the true religious maniac, it's all on purpose.

  Stephen King

  Religious, Glasses, Purpose

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• The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action - an unconventional business strategy, a unique product-development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign - even as the rest of the world wonders why you're not marching in step with the status quo.

  Bill Taylor

  Unique, Leader, Marketing

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• I think the people who experienced the Apollo missions came away from that experience wondering to themselves, 'When can we get a chance to experience spaceflight?' I've heard that many, many times: that people got into a new career field hoping that they would be able to experience spaceflight.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Careers, People

  "Expert testimony on the space age". Q&A with Alan Boyle, www.nbcnews.com. July 19, 2004.

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• We are a generation of men raised by women. I'm beginning to wonder if another woman is what we really need.

  Brad Pitt

  Men, Needs, Generations

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• I wanted the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be what they had promised me it was going to be - instead of the tawdry, lousy fouled-up mess it is.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Kids, Romance, Feelings

  Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.38, Macmillan

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• One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and bred in captivity, then released into the wild-into its ancestral sea-its limited world instantly blowing up when cast into the unknowable depths, seeing strange fish and tasting new waters, not even having a concept of depth, not knowing the language of any whale pods it might meet. It was my fear of a world that would expand suddenly, violently, and without rules or laws: bubbles and seaweed and storms and frightening volumes of dark blue that never end.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dark, Knowing, Blue

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• The capacity to still feel wonder is essential to the creative process.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Creative, Essentials, Process

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• When we come to it
  We must confess that we are the possible
  We are the miraculous, the true wonders of this world,
  that is when, and only when we come to it

  Maya Angelou

  World, This World, Miraculous

  Maya Angelou (2010). “Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• But since everything and anything are always possible, the miraculous is always nearby, and wonders shall never, ever cease.

  Robert Fulghum

  Miraculous, Cease

  Robert Fulghum (2011). “Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life”, p.5, Ballantine Books

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• If you worry less about what people think of you, you can pick up an astonishing amount of information about them. You no longer leave conversations wondering what just happened. Other people's minds and motives are finally revealed.

  Pamela Druckerman

  Thinking, Worry Less, People

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• What a way to learn great theology! That's what comes to mind whenever I sing one of those old hymns. "And Can It Be" is like putting the doctrine of salvation to music. "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" is a melodic lesson in grace. No wonder good hymns make for strong faith!

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Strong, Blessing, Hymns

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• I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific Ocean, only added to the United States in 1959. Not only that but to be the birthplace of America's first black president? Pretty cool, I bet.

  Henry Rollins

  Ocean, Birth Place, America

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• In the city of Pyongyang, you don't have to look very far to see an image of the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung. They love the guy. He is responsible for the wonder that is North Korea.

  Henry Rollins

  Korea, Cities, Guy

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• Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again.

  Henry Rollins

  Musician, Fans, Able

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• Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the load from anxious minds, and evokes talents. Thanks to the bottle's prompting no one is lost for words, no one who's cramped by poverty fails to find release.

  Horace

  Heart, Wine, Thinking

  Horace, Persius (2005). “The Satires of Horace and Persius”, p.143, Penguin UK

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• I'm going out with these old guys. One guy gave me a hickey and left his teeth in my neck. Another man, we were having a perfectly lovely dinner; he looked up and me and went: You're not my wife! Another guy died during dinner. I had to go in his pocket to get the American Express card. Then you wonder: What would he tip? Another guy said: I want you to meet my family, and took me to the cemetery.

  Joan Rivers

  Men, Wife, Guy

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