Top 100 Quotes About Wondrous
#1. Life is a wondrous journey that can be of your own making or a combination of fate and luck.
Steven Redhead
#2. Only silly Dorothys arrive in a magical land and want to go home. You don't want to be a silly stinking Dorothy, do you? They're reviled throughout every wondrous land. Did you know the name Dorothy translates as "squandered opportunity"?
Bill Willingham
#3. To see the magic of life look through the wondrous eyes of a child.
Debasish Mridha
#4. ...I watched the day slip into night, noting the wondrous tonal transformations of the sunset on its dimmer switch, how blood-orange can shade imperceptibly into ice-blue on the knife-edge of the horizon, listening to the sea's interminable call for silence - shh, shh, shh.
William Boyd
#5. You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead - your next stop, the Twilight Zone.
Rod Serling
#6. There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.
E. O. Wilson
#7. When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.
Dogen
#8. The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.
Ruth Ozeki
#9. At the wondrous moment you were born, as you took your first breath, a great celebration was held in the heavens and twelve magnificent gifts were granted to you.
Charlene Costanzo
#10. A small step forward . . .every . . single . . .day. The sun is coming up and I am wondering, 'What wondrous thing shall I witness today?
Liz Becker
#11. Elves know a lot and are wondrous folk for news and know what is going on among the peoples of the land as quick as water flows, or quicker.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#12. Imagination is a glorious thing, Without imagination there would be no solace for our suffering, no wondrous creations, no stories to beguile us, and no magic...
Karen Wrighton
#14. To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an end and a more benign and wondrous dream arises. This is the new earth.
Eckhart Tolle
#16. [ ... ] my heart is wondrous light,
Since this same wayward girl is so reclaim'd.
William Shakespeare
#17. The simplified life is a sanctified life, Much more calm, much less strife. Oh, what wondrous truths are unveiled- Projects succeed which had previously failed. Oh, how beautiful life can be, Beautiful simplicity.
Peace Pilgrim
#18. There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work with harm.
Phoebe Cary
#19. His straight and perfect figure, muscled as the best of the ancient Roman gladiators must have been muscled, and yet with the soft and sinuous curves of a Greek god, told at a glance the wondrous combination of enormous strength with suppleness and speed.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#20. As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.
Baruj Benacerraf
#21. Concealed within those pages, there hides a wondrous secret.
Dan Brown
#22. After all, is it not wondrous that we are allowed to be both witnesses and victims of the sepulchral pomp of wasting tissue? And one thing we know is real: horror. It is so real, in fact, that we cannot be sure it could not exist without us.
Thomas Ligotti
#23. He gazed up at me in that way that made me feel cherished. His expression was simultaneously wondrous and joyful. I realized that I put that expression on this beautiful man's face.
Mia Sheridan Archer's Voice
#24. A composition - and every work of art is one - is created in a wondrous interplay between imagination and reason, or between mind and reflection. For there will always be an element of chance in the creative process.
Jostein Gaarder
#25. When you discover the joy of reading, your mind opens to a world of wondrous discoveries and infinite possibilities.
Julie Anne Peters
#26. When the spirit moves me, I can do many wondrous things.
Van Morrison
#27. Many things between Heaven and Earth fill me with wonder; but of all of these, the least wondrous to me are the wonders of Religion.
Karlheinz Deschner
#28. That was the thing about Levantin: he loved the birds, but he really loved the places they brought him. When you spend your career in the confines of a gray suit, the pipits at dawn above timberline are even more wondrous.
Mark Obmascik
#29. Brushing the clouds away from my eyes, I see clarity in the raindrop and beauty in the first ray of morning sun...
Life is strange and wondrous...
Virginia Alison
#30. I truly believe that everything Sci-fi taught me as a child about an efficient and wondrous world will be happening in my lifetime.
Yves Behar
#31. The sky, with a single star, would be dark and boring. A million stars in the firmament makes for something wondrous and bright.
Beem Weeks
#32. The universe could be a wondrous thing. The universe had out did herself. The universe would be getting flowers.
Cassandra Clare
#34. Thou Shalt Dream a Great Dream, or Show Forth a Wondrous New Thing, or Share Something Thou Hast Never Shared Before.
Jeremy Donovan
#36. On the day that we do discover that we are not alone, our society may begin to evolve and transform in some incredible and wondrous new ways.
Carl Sagan
#37. Thus Angels' Bread is made The Bread of man today: The Living Bread from Heaven With figures doth away: O wondrous gift indeed! The poor and lowly may Upon their Lord and Master feed.
Thomas Aquinas
#38. God never meant that man should scale the Heavens
By strides of human wisdom. In his works,
Though wondrous, he commands us in his word
To seek him rather where his mercy shines.
William Cowper
#39. And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.
Rachel Hartman
#41. Every miracle's got a mundane explanation. [ ... ] and you can choose - you can look at the wonderous surface or you can look at the crud beneath. I want to see the wondrous, believe me. I just know it isn't going to be there when I've finished looking.
Karen Traviss
#42. The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.
Patti Smith
#43. To communicate is truly a gift. It is a wondrous ability of your amazing human body, the ability that allows us to connect with other humans to give meaning to our lives. I will argue that it is what makes us human.
Kathleen Depperschmidt
#44. The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to fully understand. If someone wants to place the word 'God' on those collections of words, it's OK with me.
Brian Greene
#45. Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies.
Ridley Scott
#46. For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines
some of which, alas, you can see also in this Siege
I construct Aristotelian Machines, that allow anyone to see with Words ...
Umberto Eco
#47. I find it a privilege and an honor to be human, for to me, one of the most wondrous and beautiful things in the universe, is found in human form.
Because to be human, is to be able to dream dreams of pyramids and skyscrapers, and majestic works of art that spring from the human mind.
Sara Niles
#48. I said to Lucien, low and quiet and as vicious as the talons that formed at the tips of my fingers, as vicious as the wondrous weight between my shoulder blades, "When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness starts to stare back
Sarah J. Maas
#49. The Buddhas speak the wondrous sound throughout the world; the Teachings spoken over countless ages can all be expounded in a single word.
Thomas Cleary
#50. I sense the joy of young and old,
I hear wondrous tales told,
Beauty surrounds me as I gaze above,
But I am alone for I live without love.
Anonymous
#51. all things soon pass away and become a mere tale, and complete oblivion soon buries them. And I say this of those who have shone in a wondrous way.
Marcus Aurelius
#52. Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Thomas Carlyle
#53. My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night
Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about The other four in wondrous motion.
William Shakespeare
#54. Because nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness.
Barbara Kingsolver
#55. To "hallow" God's name is not merely to live righteous lives but to have a heart of grateful joy toward God - and even more, a wondrous sense of his beauty. We do not revere his name unless he "captivate[s] us with wonderment for him."198
Timothy Keller
#56. I was the youngest child. I got to be myself and ask stupid questions because I was the youngest. It is so important to listen to the questions children have and reward them for the wondrous questions they ask.
May-Britt Moser
#57. The little and the great are joined in one By God's great force. The wondrous golden sun Is linked unto the glow-worm's tiny spark; The eagle soars to heaven in his flight; And in those realms of space, all bathed in light, Soar none except the eagle and the lark.
Emma Lazarus
#58. I look upon the gift of my life as a wondrous journey.
Maureen Brady
#59. Future strong is adventurous self-mastery. Unlocking your future by running toward the unknown, with the wondrous soul of a child and the drive of a force that will not be stopped.
Bill Jensen
#60. Steam rising underneath a canopy of whispering, changing aspens; starlight in the clear, dark night, and wondrous beauty in every direction. If only all could feel this way, to be so captured and enthralled with autumn.
Donna Lynn Hope
#61. It is wondrous, Will Henry," breathed the monstrumologist over the maddening hum of the flies. "I feared we might be wrong-that Socotra was not the *locus ex magnificum*. But we have found it, haven't we? And is it not wondrous?"
I agreed with him. It was wondrous.
Rick Yancey
#62. Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.
Nikolai Gogol
#64. To birth, to death, and that wondrous thing in between. And to auld lang syne.
Stephen Cox
#65. Now thank we all our God, With hearts and hands and voices, Who wondrous things hath done, In whom his world rejoices ...
Johann Cruger
#66. THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is deep and intricate and wondrous.
Terry Brooks
#68. Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.
Lew Wallace
#69. Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
Miguel De Cervantes
#70. Let us not fear our wild thoughts for they can give rise to wondrous contemplation, creative endeavour, life changing ideas, momentous bliss.
Jay Woodman
#71. And did not believe in His wondrous works. 33Therefore their days He consumed in futility,
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#72. The fact that I am standing there and washing bowls is a wondrous reality. I'm being completely myself, following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions.
Nhat Hanh
#73. I'm a well-intentioned plotter who ends up with wondrous pantsing revelations and (at times) ginormous rewrites that look almost nothing like my carefully plotted plans.
Violet Duke
#74. God prevented Adam & Even from ETERNAL SINFULNESS by giving them the gift of death, the ability to exit this life & arrive safely in the wondrous life to come. Death, though it would appear to be man's greatest enemy, would in the end, prove to be his greatest friend. Only through can we go to God.
Paul P. Enns
#75. Love is both wondrous and yet full of peril. Love is a gateway through which hatred - disguised and unrecognized - can pass.
David Gemmell
#76. For storms will rage and oceans roar,
When Gabriel stands on sea and shore,
And as he blows his wondrous horn,
Old worlds die and new be born.
Deborah Harkness
#77. Nothing stays wondrous forever. It's human nature to grow accustomed to that which becomes normal, even if it's a new shade of normal.
Neal Shusterman
#78. Heaven
Is as the Book of God before thee set,
Wherein to read His wondrous works.
John Milton
#79. But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,
Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.
Lord Byron
#80. The stuff of life turned out to be not a quivering, glowing, wondrous gel but a contraption of tiny jigs, springs, hinges, rods, sheets, magnets, zippers, and trapdoors, assembled by a data tape whose information is copied, downloaded and scanned.
Steven Pinker
#81. Imagine all the wondrous things your arms might embrace if they weren't wrapped so tightly around your struggles.
Sheila M Burke
#82. I promise to dream with you both great dreams and small dreams. To ask your counsel in times of uncertainty. To honor your silence when you seek to be alone. To be ever wondrous at your curiosities and revelations. And to be ever rejuvenated by your passions ...
Carew Papritz
#83. That I might live alone once with my gold!
O, 'tis a sweet companion! kind and true:
A man may trust it when his father cheats him,
Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf!
That which makes all men false, is true itself.
Ben Jonson
#84. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid.
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Q
#85. Sometimes a book that appeared dull or off-putting would somehow still draw you in, call to you, and when you finally embarked on the adventure inside you found yourself partaking in something wondrous and unfathomably rich.
Liam W. Russell
#86. I think life is a wondrous thing. I'm happy to try pretty hard.
Andrew Bird
#87. The transformation which occurs in the cauldron is quintessential and wondrous, subtle and delicate. The mouth cannot express it in words.
Michael Pollan
#88. We see God's miracles in His wondrous work and in our own personal lives.
Neil L. Andersen
#89. Breathe the air, taste the wine, kiss the girls, and always remember that the tales of another are never as wondrous as your own.
Michael J. Sullivan
#90. There is a saying in Bali: "We have no art. We do everything as beautifully as possible." This reflects my philosophy of practice. I try to remember daily what a gift it is to have the privilege of living in this wondrous world.
Sam Keen
#92. ...it would be a lie to describe the experience as anything less than exhilarating, the repulsive going hand in hand with the wondrous.
Caitlin Doughty
#93. What wondrous life is this I lead!
Ripe apples drop about my head;
The luscious clusters of the vine
Upon my mouth do crush their wine;
The nectarine and curious peach
Into my hands themselves do reach;
Stumbling on melons, as I pass,
Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
Andrew Marvell
#94. When one thinks of the wondrous glory of Christ, how astonishing that He can join with us! But more, when one thinks of His bringing many sons to glory at such a cost, one is lost in adoring amazement.
George Wigram
#95. For a wondrous golden second, they basked in the afterglow, not caring that it was four in the afternoon and they were naked in front of the windows. "I missed you," Ellie whispered right against his ear. "Don't ever think that I wasn't missing you like crazy all that time.
Lauren Gilley
#96. A good woman's heart knows no bounds. And love is the most powerful and wondrous gift in the world. Yes, it is.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#97. Suffice it to say, if one hopes to live in a world of wonders, he had better locate himself in a place where wondrous stories abound.
Jonathan Auxier
#98. Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.
Patrick Rothfuss
#99. Wondrous strength and generosity of a woman's heart! She will not speak!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
