“In a modern world, increasingly filled with pop culture fads and gimmicks, Lisa Morton reveals much of the underbelly history and unknown facts regarding the biggest pop culture event in history-Halloween. Her sheer delight and well-researched enthusiasm in tackling many of the unrecognized aspects of this monstrous topic makes one wonder what we don't know about everything else that should be as commonplace to our psyche as a bag of candy.” KnowsWorldShouldWellsFactsCultureWonderModernEventsAspectFilledDelightPopsEnthusiasmBagsSheerHalloweenTopicsCandyModern WorldPop CultureCommonplaceMonstrousFadsGimmicksTacklingEvents In History Author:Del Howison
“I have consciously sought after those things which make for value, order, richness, spirit and wonder, even though I am often unable to verbalize what I feel when I perceive something beautiful. Sometimes it's a pang or a sensation; at other times it is an awareness of joy and security or pure pleasure. In any event, it is a moment to be celebrated. Beauty justifies itself. The fact that it is beyond definition means nothing.” FeelsMeanSometimesMomentsFactsBeautifulJoySpiritValuesOrderPleasureWonderBeautyAwarenessSecurityEventsPureDefinitionsPerceiveJustifySensationsRichnessSomething Beautiful Author:Luci Swindoll
“Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in every being's heart a love of wonder; the sweet amazement at the stars and starlike things and thoughts; the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what comes next, and the joy in the game of life.” HeartJoyNextGamesStarsChallengesWonderEventsSweetAppetiteSeventiesSixteenChildlikeAmazementChildlike WonderUndaunted Author:Samuel Ullman
“When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?” AsksWonderSocietyConditionsEventsProfit Author:Richard Mitchell
“Will history remember us, I wonder? I do hope so - to imagine that one might do something, touch an event somehow, & thereby transcend the bounds of a single human lifetime!” HumansMightRememberWonderImagineEventsLifetimeBoundsImagine That Book:The Forgotten Garden Source: The Forgotten Garden
“We cannot use electric lights and radios and, in the event of illness, avail ourselves of modern medical and clinical means and at the same time believe in the spirit and wonder world of the New Testament.” WorldBelieveMeanUseLightSpiritWonderModernEventsIllnessRadioMedicalElectricTestamentNew TestamentClinicalsElectric Light Author:Rudolf Bultmann
“The wonder of prayer is rediscovered in who we're speaking to. Prayer is a mystical event by which we get to talk to the Creator of all-the One who fashioned our world with a few words-knowing that God not only listens but answers.” WorldPrayerAnswersWonderKnowingEventsCreatorOur WorldMysticalFew Words Author:Margaret Feinberg
“A dozen swimming events have already been completed in the Olympic competition. I wonder where they got the name 'Speedo.' It doesn't sound like a bathing suit, it sounds like a breakfast cereal for meth addicts.” FunnyNamesSoundWonderEventsCompetitionSuitsBreakfastSwimmingDozenOlympicsAddictCerealBathingLondon OlympicsBathing SuitsBreakfast CerealSpeedos Author:Craig Ferguson
“Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how many events occur every day, we shall no longer wonder at those accidental coincidences which ignorance mistakes for verifications.” IfsMindDreamNightMistakeWonderEventsProduceIgnoranceOughtPhilosophicalConvictionEvery NightCoincidenceVerification Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Surely no man can reflect, without wonder upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and trifling. If you trace the necessary concatenation of human events a very little way back, you may perhaps discover that a person's very going in or out of a door has been the means of coloring with misery or happiness the remaining current of his life.” IfsMenWayHumansMayMeanLittlesPersonsHas BeensCausesChanceWonderDoorsEventsDegreesHighestMiseryCurrentsHuman LifeTriflingVicissitudes Author:Sir Fulke Greville
“We talked about trying to create an image that would somehow, to an audience, create the sense of awe, wonder and shock that the troops must have felt that their monarch - and a female monarch - went to the frontline of battle and was prepared to lay down her life. This speech is so well known and has been done in virtually every version of the events of Elizabeth's life.” TryingWellsHas BeensDoneFeltKnownWonderAudienceEventsBattleSpeechFemaleLaysPreparedVersionsAweShockTroopsWell KnownMonarchsFrontline Author:Cate Blanchett
“Doesn't anyone wonder why the NAACP does not have events celebrating the first black woman secretary of state?.. Why does an organization whose mission is to advance the lot of blacks not celebrate Clarence Thomas, our black Supreme Court justice?” FirstsDoeStatesBlackJusticeWonderEventsOrganizationCourtMissionsSupremeCelebrateSecretarySupreme CourtBlack WomenSupreme Court JusticeCourt JusticeNaacp Author:Star Parker
“I wonder how many marriages are fractured and damaged beyond repair by complacency rather than any single traumatic event. One day you wake up and realize that the distance between you and your spouse has grown to such an enormous width that neither of you are capable of clearing the distance. No matter how much speed you build up, or how far you can jump, it's just there. Gaping and unforgiving.” MatterRealizingWonderEventsOne DayCapableWake UpDistanceSpeedEnormousSpouseComplacencyClearingUnforgivingWidthTraumatic Events Author:Tracey Garvis-Graves
“The wonders of a journey consist far more of such intangible experiences and unexpected situations than of factual things and events of material reality.” RealitySituationWonderJourneyEventsMaterialsUnexpectedFactualIntangible Author:Anagarika Govinda
“I mean, so if I've talked to whites in City of Refuge, sometimes they'll wonder, "Why do we do things a certain way, and why do we make a big deal out of events?" And what's happening is they're falling back on their understanding of the way that church should work. It's not always working exactly like that, and they feel frustration or confusion. Sometimes people leave. That's certainly common in mixed churches.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsShouldMeanSometimesBigsCertainFallUnderstandingChurchDealsCommonCitiesWonderEventsHappeningsConfusionFrustrationWorking ItRefugeBig DealAlways Working Author:Michael Emerson