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
There is that unique moment when one confronts something new and astonishment begins. — Diane Ackerman 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
Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It… — Charles Dickens 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
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
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
We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I can still recall vividly how Freud said to me, "My dear Jung, promise me never to abandon the sexual theory. That… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my… — Pat Conroy 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
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
The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to… — Anonymous 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
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
I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
To my utter astonishment I saw an airship descending over my cow lot. It was occupied by six of the strangest beings… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not… — Thomas Aquinas 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
Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this… — John Green Copy Share Image
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