“Into this life of cruel wonder sent, Without a word to tell us what it meant, Sent back again without a reason… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfigurations," said Ron, to general astonishment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“My father will be filled with frank astonishment that I should be proving myself capable of earning a living in any capacity… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love. — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
“Then, dramatically, all of a sudden, totally out of nowhere, and to my utter astonishment, absolutely nothing happens.” — James Marshall 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
In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy,… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
Most of the time I am sunk in thought, but at some point on each walk there comes a moment when I… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The Astonishment Tapes will now take its place within the growing field of international research about postwar American poetry's important contribution to… — Peter Gizzi Copy Share Image
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
George Lowe was the one who opened the mail, and George started laughing uproariously and I looked up at him in astonishment… — Edmund Hillary 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
“There was one panicked moment. He picked a book from the wall, and the shapes inside, all the letters, were friends to… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished of his proportion; and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
once, when I was a young lady and on a night express ... I was awakened by a man coming in from… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
So you got rid of your astonishment that someone could write so much more dynamically than you. You stopped cherishing your aloneness… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
If you want some advice—which I'm sure you don't—you guys should lay off on the magic. Christian still thinks you're moving in… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
And as for you Agent Pallas – man-to-man, if you ever insult my girl on national television again, I’ll…” he stopped. Everyone… — Julie James 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
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
She had imagined Jace leaping from the bed in astonishment and gasping something like "Egad!" This didn't happen-largely, she suspected, because Jace… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The most violent expression of God's wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. If ever a person had room to complain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal: from which it follows that irregularity - that is to say, the unexpected,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to… — Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Copy Share Image
But nowadays everybody's a comedian, even the weather girls and continuity announcers. We laugh at everything. Not intelligently anymore, not with sudden… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
But what we can never do is change the story that has made us what we are. It's a story completely dictated… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Constant reminding ourselves that we not see with our eyes but with our synergetic eye-brain system working as a whole will produce… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm,… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
But how much better, in any case, to wonder than not to wonder, to dance with astonishment and go spinning in praise,… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
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