Wonder Quotes - Page 2

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.

I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power.

The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.

I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.

You must come to see how wonderful you are in God and how helpless you are in yourself.

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

Wouldn`t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe we'd like each other a little bit more.

If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would no longer be wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.

I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.

And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined.

I've learned what I can control is whether I am going to live a day in fear and depression and panic, or whether I am going to attack the day and make it as good a day, as wonderful a day, as I can.

Don't you know how sweet and wonderful life can be?

It was God's word that made us; is it any wonder that His word should sustain us?

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

God could not have chosen anyone less qualified, or more of a sinner, than myself. And so, for this wonderful work He intends to perform through us, He selected me- for God always chooses the weak and the absurd, and those who count for nothing.

I'd much rather be a one-hit wonder than a phony.

Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.

Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait." "I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life.

We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder

Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.

The wonderful arrangement and harmony of the cosmos would only originate in the plan of an almighty omniscient being. This is and remains my greatest comprehension.

Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.

Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.

Gratitude is the key that unlocks wonder.