"Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom."
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"Wisdom belongs in wonder."
"I wonder...would you rather have 100 from an average person or 10 from someone who is outstanding"
"If you don't ask, you don't get it"
"This old world keeps spinnin’ round; It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down."
"Now I wonder whether I have sufficiently realized that during all this time God has been trying to find me, to know me, and to love me. The question is not 'How am I to find God?' but 'How am I to let myself be found by him?' The question is not 'How am I to love God?' but 'How am I to let myself be loved by God?'"
"I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?"
"Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)"
"The letter . . . What did your lords make of it, I wonder?” Stannis snorted. “Celtigar pronounced it admirable. If I showed him the contents of my privy, he would declare that admirable as well."
"I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do."
"I think that once you're born, the thing you have to do is find out who you are and live that life as well as you can. You can't spend your time wondering how things would have been if you were someone different."
"Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders."
"I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any."
"We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear."
"Wonder what customers really want? Ask. Don't Tell."
"My faith is big enough to accept all of God's wonders."
"How you all will change the work after I am gone. If I came back a hundred years from now, I just wonder if I would even recognize it."
"Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted."
"Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are"
"We're all so busy. We race and race. Life is a sprint. We want to get 'there' so badly. But I wonder if we even know what to do when we actually get 'there'."