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«I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them...»
Author: Annie Dillard
(Author)
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«My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like ...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.»
«Q: What do you get when you cross an insomniac, an agnostic, and a dyslexic?A: Someone who stays up all night wondering if there is a Dog.»
Author: Groucho Marx
(Actor, Comedian, Singer)
| Keywords:
agnostic, agnostics, cross, crossing over, Crossing the, cross out, dog, dyslexic, insomniac, insomniacs, Night, stays, wondering
«I am here again, in a familiar place feeling something I've felt before, wondering why it's still here, why I didn't deal with it more fully before. But I'm glad I have a second chance at it ... and I know that if I need a third chance, I'll get it. I also know that if it comes up again, I'll recognize it sooner and deal with it more readily. This is growth. And, I am happy to be alive.»
Author: Jan Denise
(Author, Columnist, Speaker)
| Keywords:
familiar, familiars, felt, fully, get it, glad, growth, happy chance, I am here, readily, recognize, Second Chance, Second Coming, sooner, The Second Coming, third, wondering
«I have nothing to complain about... except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.»
«I can hardly keep wondering at my own folly in thinking it worthwhile to leave my books and garden, even for one day's attendance in the House of Commons.»
Author: William Wyndam Grenville
| About:
Wonder
| Keywords:
attendance, commons, House of Commons, in attendance, In the House, the House of Commons, wondering
«Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.»
«I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.»
Author: William Allen White
(Journalist)
| Keywords:
bored, fairly, glamorous, intervals, regular, wondering
«Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.»
«Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
Mankind,
Men
| Keywords:
abroad, circular, compass, compasses, compassing, courses, heights, huge, Long Course, motions, mountains, mountain pass, ocean, pass by, rivers, River Went, The Long, The Sea, vast, waves, wondering
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