I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Your total intelligence knows how to accomplish astounding feats. You just need a clear objective. Get clear. You will surprise yourself!” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
“Nick stared at him in astonishment. “Was that actually a smile? Shit, Pallas—all these years we’ve been working together, I wasn’t even… — Julie James Copy Share Image
A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
The shortness of life, which we all discuss, but which is very clear to me at the moment, makes keeping and spreading… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“A Permeable Life is about what presses out from the heart, what comes in at a slant and what shimmers below the… — Carrie Newcomer Copy Share Image
Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. 'There were stars,' He said. 'They burned my eyes.’ ...from a Himmel… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I don't care that much about rote memorization. An old boyfriend of mine used to get into lacerating arguments with his parents… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I doubt that the phenomenon was any terrestrial reflection, because... nothing of the kind has ever appeared before or since... I was… — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
“The astonishment soon passed off, the scales seemed to drop from his eyes, and the book became at once and for ever… — Thomas Hughes Copy Share Image
I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a unanimity almost… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The unphilosophical and philosophical attitudes can be very sharply distinguished (with scarcely any intermediate forms) by the fact that the first accepts… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship, which was… — Olaudah Equiano Copy Share Image
Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Simon,” she whispered, vaguely surprised that she had just used his first name, for she had never used it even in the… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Both of you’ll just have to believe me. Emma’s one of those women who was born with… The thing is, the minute… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment. — William Macneile Dixon Copy Share Image
The Emrys! The Emrys is here!' Merlin shook his head in astonishment. 'Has it come to this?' he wondered. 'Even small children… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
That's an astonishment that we're waiting to find out what the [Donald Trump] policy is, that was the central plank, the central… — Michelle Goldberg Copy Share Image
The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment. — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
“My good fellow,” said Mesnil, stopping, “ever since the creation of the world there have been men like me specially intended to… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“He answered the phone to his daughter with a broken but joyous heart, ready to speak with her of astonishment and wonder.” — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image