It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it:… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
Discipline, as understood by a warrior, is creative, open, and produces freedom. It is the ability to face the unknown, transforming the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There were certainly those who rubbed their eyes in astonishment. But when we held a company discussion forum with Joschka Fischer, interest… — Norbert Reithofer Copy Share Image
“Oh, it's Applekit!" Cinderpelt yelped in mock astonishment. "I thought for a heartbeat there was a giant burr chasing me. Never mind.… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
How a regulation so unjust in itself, so foreign to the authority of Congress, and so hurtful to the sale of public… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It certainly strikes the beholder with astonishment, to perceive what vast difficulties can be overcome by the pigmy arms of little mortal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
The ability of nonintelligent people to understand the most complicated mechanisms and to use them has always been to me a cause… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
I have been accused of having believed when I wrote Sex and Temperament that there are no sex differences... This, many readers… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Dustfinger inspected his reddened fingers and felt the taut skin. ‘He might tell me how my story ends,’ he murmured. Meggie looked… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
From his soft fur, golden and brown, Goes out so sweet a scent, one night I might have been embalmed in it… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet,… — Muriel Barbery 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
There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra,… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
The first time I set out to find George F. Kennan, in 1982, I had just turned 21, begun my final semester… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“This did not in any way alter her intention of accomplishing her mission; on the contrary; it seemed to her all the… — Jane Bowles Copy Share Image
She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
