“It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery... Adults know too much about failure; they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.” IfsKnowsChildrenReasonFactsNaturalWonderToo MuchHigherAdultsLogicBraveryRateCancerCuresCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningCynicalFearfulOntologyResigned Author:Lance Armstrong
“Do not we rest in our day too much on the arm of flesh? Cannot the same wonders be done now as of old? Do not the eyes of the Lord still run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those who put their trust in Him? Oh, that God would give me more practical faith in Him! Where is now the Lord God of Elijah? He is waiting for Elijah to call on Him.” GivingStillsDoneWholeShowsEyeRunningEarthStrongWaitingWonderLordToo MuchArmsGive MeFleshPracticalsBehalfElijahRevival PrayerGod PrayerLord God Author:James Gilmour
“Too much of our time is spent trying to chart God on a grid, and too little is spent allowing our hearts to feel awe. By reducing Christian spirituality to formula, we deprive our hearts of wonder.” FeelsTryingHeartLittlesChristianSpiritualityWonderToo MuchOur TimeAweAllowingFormulasReducingGrids Book:Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God Source: Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God
“I keep vaguely wondering what Macs are like, but the ones I've seen spend too much time being friendly.” WonderToo MuchFriendlyMacs Author:Terry Pratchett
“Trout aren't naturally as selective as they've become in crowded tailwaters - they've been trained to be like that by too much fishing pressure. I've seen tailwater fish that are so hysterical they'll refuse naturals. You wonder how they get enough to eat.” EnoughWonderToo MuchSeaRiversPressureFishesRefuseBoatLakesFishingCrowdedSelectiveHystericalTrout Author:John Gierach
“You know you knit too much when ... Before you buy anything, such as a hammock or curtains, you seriously wonder whether you could knit it.” KnowsWonderToo MuchCurtainsKnittingHammocks Author:Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
“I wonder whether there has been too much emphasis on teaching women to conform, to fit into the system. Certainly that suits conservative organizations in conservative times. But now ... innovation and creativity are necessary.” Has BeensWonderCreativityToo MuchTeachingFitOrganizationInnovationConservativeSuitsConformEmphasisCreativity And Innovation Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“Hope is to a man as a bladder to a learning swimmer--it keeps him from sinking in the bosom of the waves, and by that help he may attain the exercise; but yet it many times makes him venture beyond his height, and then if that breaks, or a storm rises, he drowns without recovery. How many would die, did not hope sustain them! How many have died by hoping too much! This wonder we find in Hope, that she is both a flatterer and a true friend.” IfsMenMayHelpingDiesHopeWonderBreakToo MuchExerciseDiedWaveStormRecoveryHeightVentureTrue FriendBosomsSinkingSwimmerFlattererBladder Author:Owen Feltham
“There's way too much wonder and mystery all around us to not stay open to more that's going on here. You can wake up, and sense and feel and taste and hear a whole world right here within this one, right here in this breath you're about to take.” WorldWayFeelsWholeWonderToo MuchMysteryTasteWake UpBreathsWhole WorldWonder And Mystery Author:Rob Bell
“We've let too much time go by. We've been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that's what space travel is all about. It's all about peace and exploration and wonder and beauty.” WarSpaceWonderToo MuchBusyExplorationSpace TravelTime Goes ByBeing Busy Author:Ray Bradbury
“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.” LittlesEndsLostWonderToo MuchManageOppressors Author:Joan D. Chittister
“I think in some parts of our English history we've had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of wonder how so much great work could come out of one country.” ThinkingKindCountryWonderComedyToo MuchHugeAmountGreat WorkEnglish HistoryGreat Comedy Author:Kate Bush
“I don't like to wonder about it-I just like to do it. That's what I mean about the image stuff and all that. There's far too much emphasis being placed on that kind of stuff... the whole emphasis on what does it mean? Everybody has their own particular vision.” KindMeanDoeWholeStuffWonderVisionToo MuchParticularEmphasis Author:Van Morrison