W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.”
“Won't someone please answer my prayers before I'm old and gray. I've been lonely too long and all my family thinks I'm gay.”
“Won't the awareness God loves us no matter what lead to spiritual laziness and moral laxity? Theoretically, this seems a reasonable fear, but in reality the opposite is true. . . . The more rooted we are in the love of God, the more generously we will live our faith.”
Source: The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus
“Won't the new 'Suggested for Mature Audience' protect our youngsters from such films? I don't believe so. I know many forty-five-year old men with the mentalities of six-year-olds, and my feeling is that they should not see such pictures, either.”
“won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one hand holding tight my other hand; come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed.”
Source: The Book of Light
“Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.”
“Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way... Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds That I may be a vehicle for Thee... Give me my rapture today.”
“Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom? 'Cause all I ever have… redemption songs; redemption songs.”
“Won't you look down upon me Jesus, you've got to help me make a stand. You just got to see me through another day.”
“Won't you ride my white horse?”
“Won't you stay We'll put on the day And we'll talk in present tenses”
“Won? He’s one of them! How exactly is that winning?” Michael shook his head, moved up behind her, and put his hands on her shoulders. He kissed the nape of her neck gently. “I don’t know, Eve. I’m just telling you what I heard. He got some kind of agreement out of the vampires. And it was because Amelie loved him.” “Yeah, loved him enough to kill him and turn him into a bloodsucking fiend,” Eve said grimly. “How sweet. Romance isn’t dead. Oh, wait. It is.”
Source: The Dead Girls' Dance: The Morganville Vampires
“Wonder - the sensation of being whisked out of time and space...to be bathed in ... epiphanous delight.”
“Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause, or when the cause of the particular effect is one that exceeds his power of understanding. Hence, wonder is a cause of pleasure insofar as there is annexed the hope of attaining understanding of that which one wants to know. ... For desire is especially aroused by the awareness of ignorance, and consequently a man takes the greatest pleasure in those things which he discovers for himself or learns from the ground up.”
“Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.”
Source: The Works of Plato: The Apology of Socrates, Crito, Phaedo, Gorgias, Protagoras, Phaedrus, Theaetetus, Euthyphron, and Lysis
“Wonder and despair are two sides of a spinning coin. When you open yourself to one, you open yourself to the other. You discover a capacity for joy that wasn't in you before. Wonder is the promise of restoration: as deeply as you dive, so may you rise.”
Source: Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest
“Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.”
Source: Silent Spring
“Wonder and inspiration occur when we have the open eyes, hearts, and minds of small children.”
“Wonder and reason are not opposites. They are two parts of the same whole - a thirst for truth in the search for meaning.”
Source: Nothing Becomes
“Wonder at God's merciful love is a very practical emotion. Holy wonder will lead you to grateful worship and heartfelt thanksgiving. It will cause within you godly watchfulness; you will be afraid to sin against such a love as this.”
Source: Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
“Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.”
Source: Table-talk: Or Original Essays
“Wonder begets culture, which begets yet more wonder, and the end of wonder is wisdom, which is the state of perpetual wonder.”
Source: Heaven and Hell: The Psychology of the Emotions
“Wonder begins in a womb of a woman.”
“Wonder can only be the attitude of a man passing from one stage to another, it can never be a permanently fixed thing.”
Source: Speculations
“Wonder does not bow to perfection; it is the imperfect that often carries its quiet radiance.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Wonder had gone away, and he had forgotten that all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference between those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other.
- The Silver Key”
Source: At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror
“Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.”
Source: Wonder Tales
“Wonder implies the desire to learn.”
Source: Rhetoric
“Wonder in everything No matter how great or small... Same thing that's scrawled across the stars Is written under our skin... There's a time to search for understanding Sometimes you just got to sing New horizons, new horizon within”
“Wonder is a beautiful bliss.”
“Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything else.”
“Wonder is a very subtle, precious emotion, often lost in the gross hustle and bustle of modern life. When we feel wonder, we are immediately reminded of the purity and innocence of our childhood. Then, everything was magical and mysterious. Magic should help us relive that wonder.”
“Wonder is all around us, when we know how to look. It's often in the simple spaces; a meadow, a stream, an unturned rock.”
Source: Unbound
“Wonder is an open heaven to wisdom.”
“Wonder is bliss.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know.”
“Wonder is involuntary praise.”
Source: Imperium Pelagi, a naval lyric. Epistles to Mr. Pope, concerning the authors of the age. Sea-piece. The foreign address; or the best argument for peace. Epitaph on Lord Aubrey Beauclerk. Reflections on the public situation of the kingdom. An epistle to the right hon. Sir Robert Walpole. The old man's relapse. Resignation. Tragedies. Prose works
“Wonder is like grace, in that it's not a condition we grasp; it grasps us. Wonder is not an obligatory element in the search for truth. We can seek truth without wonder's assistance. But seek is all we'll do; there will be no finding. Unless wonder descends, unlocks us ... truth is unable to enter. Wonder may be the aura of truth, the halo of it. Or something even closer. Wonder may be the caress of truth, touching our very skin.”
Source: My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-watchings, Fish-stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark
“Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to transform, to notice, to decide what experience shall mean.”
Source: Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest
“Wonder is not an exterior destination to arrive at, like a mountaintop view, or a once in a lifetime concert. Those experiences may bring that feeling. But wonder is an internal filter through which we learn to look at life.
This filter is always there, but it is most easily accessible to us in new situations, when we don't have a narrative about what's happening yet. If we want to feel the rapturous experience of being alive more often, then removing the filter of familiarity is the practice we most need to adopt.”
Source: Say Yes: Discover the Surprising Life Beyond the Death of a Dream
“Wonder is not precisely knowing.”
Source: Dickinson
“Wonder is our erotic affiliation with all of life. If we develop this, enjoy it, and follow its promptings, our wants will be fewer and our needs plainer.”
Source: Epicurean Simplicity
“Wonder is our need today, not information.”
Source: Elia Kazan: A Life
“Wonder is retained by wise pondering.”
Source: Recapture the Wonder
“Wonder is the basis of worship.”
Source: The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom.”
“Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good.”
“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.”
Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
“Wonder is the desire of knowledge.”