The Seven Wonders Ahs Quotes & Sayings

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature. — Mortimer J. Adler

A song is like a dream, and you try to make it come true. They're like strange countries that you have to enter. — Bob Dylan

The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature. — Bertrand Russell

A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand. — Renzo Piano

Just now the lilac is in bloom
All before my little room. — Rupert Brooke

Live your life by just one word and that is reciprocity. — Debasish Mridha

That's how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground — Neil Strauss

The problem with waiting to get your life in order before considering marriage is that you really have no idea when your life will be in order, if ever. — Lisa Anderson

No one questioned the Machine's powers. Religion had been re-established with the Machine as the Supreme Being. Everyone yielded to 'some invincible pressure, which came no one knew whither, and which, when gratified, was succeeded by some new pressure equally invincible. — John N. Gray

She's not afraid. She's wearing a dentata. — Neal Stephenson

Worst thing would be that Darling killed her. And then he'll probably shoot me and add me to his monument in the yard. But — Sherrilyn Kenyon

If young people could only realize that a happy marriage depends not only on the present, but upon the past, they would be more reluctant to enter into loose, intimate relations with anyone and everyone. — Billy Graham

What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate of ideas or a cultural sensibility, embodying it in a character, and moving his characters into and out of one another's lives. What might have been a jumble of intellectual movements and colorful minor figures ( ... ) is instead a subtle weave of entertaining narrative and astute interpretation. — George Scialabba

In the first place, he is a gentleman," continued Violet. "Then he is a man of spirit. And then he has not too much spirit; - not that kind of spirit which makes some men think that they are the finest things going. His manners are perfect; - not Chesterfieldian, and yet never offensive. He never browbeats any one, and never toadies any one. He knows how to live easily with men of all ranks, without any appearance of claiming a special status for himself. If he were made Archbishop of Canterbury to-morrow, I believe he would settle down into the place of the first subject in the land without arrogance, and without false shame. — Anthony Trollope