Wondrously Quotes

#1. The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.

Richard Sibbes

#2. Me, I'm complicated. But it's a living, I tell myself. Also, every once in a long while this disease manages to produce a fine and beautiful truth
as (they say) some oyster illness makes the wondrously perfect pearl.

Frank Loesser

#3. Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by paragraph, so charged with the joy of language, that it would actually float three or four inches above any table where you try to set it down.

Peter Straub

#4. How wondrously supernatural, And how miraculous this! I draw water, and I carry fuel.

Layman Pang

#5. When your heart connects through prayer to the One who is the source of true love, you'll find that praying for your future husband will wondrously result in your heart being changed. And when your heart is changed, your life is transformed.

Robin Jones Gunn

#6. When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.

Madeleine L'Engle

#7. The sense comes back to me of life
as it always was then, an affliction
even blinder because wondrously filled
with sweetness.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

#8. If you are embarrassed about your sex, it must mean that you feel there is something demeaning or disgusting about being female. You are all wondrously made, girls. Remember that: wondrously made, and you should carry your sex proudly, a badge of honor.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#9. JOE2.26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.

Anonymous

#10. For the ancient Greeks, who lacked our social media, the only way to achieve mass duplication of the details of one's life in the apprehension of others was to do something wondrously worth the telling. Our wondrous technologies might just save us all the personal bother. Kleos is a tweak away.

Rebecca Goldstein

#11. When the sun shines wondrously in the morning, even the shadows in our mind start running away!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.

Miguel De Cervantes

#13. It strikes Werner just then as wondrously futile to build splendid buildings, to make music, to sing songs, to print huge books full of colorful birds in the face of the seismic, engulfing indifference of the world - what pretensions humans have!

Anthony Doerr

#14. To me, NASA is kind of the magical kingdom. I was sort of a geek, and you go there, and there are just these wondrously strange things and people.

Mary Roach

#15. Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist, but isn't fascination as comforting as solace? Isn't nature immeasurably more interesting for its complexities and its lack of conformity to our hopes? Isn't curiosity as wondrously and fundamentally human as compassion?

Stephen Jay Gould

#16. We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines .

Thomas A. Edison

#17. To become wondrously successful and to sustain that success in any profession, one must be willing to relinquish many pleasures and be ready to postpone gratification.

Maya Angelou

#18. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.

Maya Angelou

#19. As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from the vantage point of his wondrously serene old age, he contemplates our lives almost as if they were books he can dip into whenever he wants. His back pages, perhaps.

Angela Carter

#20. Take time, slow down, be still, be awake to the Divine Mystery that looks so common and so ordinary yet is wondrously present.

Edward Hays

#21. In my experience, it tends to be a real reflection of someone's intelligence, confidence and sensitivity when they can just be real.

Chris Bauer

#22. Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer.

Peter Drucker

#23. A Russian who uses his imagination is done for. I certainly never use mine.

Haruki Murakami

#24. I backed horse last week at ten to one. It came in at quarter past four.

Tommy Cooper

#25. Sometimes I wish I could act like everyone else, but I can't change who I am. I've tried. But I never wear the right clothes or say the right thing, and something always goes wrong.

Kami Garcia

#26. Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Aristotle.

#27. I would definitely describe myself as a workaholic.

Sharlto Copley

#28. I always suggest something fast and simple so you have more time to share with friends; and when we think of the ultimate food to serve for a football game, only one thing comes to mind - wings!

Marcus Samuelsson

#29. If the critics were always right we should be in deep trouble.

Robert Morley

#30. They were home. He always felt a bit like a snail, but instead of carrying his home on his back, he carried it in his arms.

Louise Penny

#31. There is only one thing I want. I would like to be seriously ill, and to hear nothing more about him for at least a week. Why doesn't something happen to me? Why do I have to go through all this? If only I had never set eyes on him!

Eva Braun

#32. There seems to be plenty of it,' was all I would answer, when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time.

Aldous Huxley

#33. If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons.

Bruce Kent