Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you… — Joel Meyerowitz 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
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
“Witness each moment in astounded jubilation. Take every holy breath in gratitude. Rejoice in life!” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For a moment Clary thought she might fall; she felt as if something essential had been torn away from her, an arm… — Cassandra Clare 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
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
Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself — Jorge Luis Borges 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
What does it mean to grow rich? Is it to have red-blooded adventures and to make a ‘fortune,’ which is what brought… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and… — Eugene Ionesco 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
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
A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into… — Oliver Goldsmith 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
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
The habits of craft, developed day in and day out over a working lifetime, create moments of astonishment, sublime and magical effects,… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening… — Anonymous 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
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. — Celia Green Copy Share Image
