Pastoral Resources

What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.

I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.

When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.

I wanna change the game in way where I'm not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I've been given.

If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder.

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.

I wonder what kind of lives they will have built for themselves when they turn 45 and can't really have any connection with people because they are so used to fleeting sexual.

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

When Buddy played, he played all out, all the time. It was a wonder he didn't keel over and die before he did.