I have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear. — Abby Sunderland Copy Share Image
By God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own modesty. — Robert Clive Copy Share Image
Young people have the advantage because they have their whole lives open to be astonished. — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
“The orb sat, exhausted and astonished. In a thousand years and more—it had never been thanked for failure.” — Debora Geary Copy Share Image
I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do. — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“She was incomparable in her inspired loveliness. Her arms amazed one, as one can be astonished by a lofty way of thinking.… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“Frankly, I couldn't be more astonished that this guy was involved in something like this than if you came riding through my… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
There is a huge fan base; they're very knowledgeable and very loyal. I was astonished - before I started working on the… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“and though there was no longer anything to be astonished at, still manifest reality always has something shocking about it.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Behold, directly overhead, a certain strange star was suddenly seen . . . Amazed, and as if astonished and stupified, I stood still — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
I am astonished by the amount and quality of love that is available if we will ask, and participate and show up… — Sark Copy Share Image
Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
“Her thoughts rambled, but she wasn’t daydreaming. Her senses were sharp. She caught the fall of every leaf in the garden, the… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“Had the Pope at Rome the knowledge of what is doing this day in England, and were this covenant written on the… — Various Copy Share Image
My uncle, gentlemen, could say nothing; he was so very much astonished The queerest thing of all, was, that although there was… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I was astonished at how wonderful these books were; and even though I was occasionally discomforted when someone, having asked me what… — Jonathan Cott Copy Share Image
I was surprised at the silence and the absence of movement which our departure caused among the spectators, and believed them to… — Francois Laurent d'Arlandes Copy Share Image
Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn't speak to… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.” — Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life? — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
We've been astonished by how good groups working together can predict the outcomes of events. — Louis B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Given how shy I was as a kid, the young me would be astonished to discover that I've made a career out… — Martin Kemp Copy Share Image
Prayer if it is real is an acknowledgment of our finitude, our need, our openness to be changed, our readiness to be… — Douglas V. Steere Copy Share Image
Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I have been studying now for about 2 years, on a rather intensive basis, the UFO problem. I have interviewed several hundred… — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it,… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
