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
If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The fearsome blessing of that hard time continues to work itself out in my life in the same way we're told the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon… — Joseph Addison 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
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
I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
We look back, already, with astonishment, at the daring outrages committed by despotism, on the reason and rights of man; we look… — James Madison Copy Share Image
He produced a handkerchief—crisply folded—and handed it to her. She took it with silent astonishment. She’d never before known anyone who carried… — Cassandra Clare 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
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
Frederick Buechner brings the reader to his knees, sometimes in laughter, sometimes in an astonishment very close to prayer, and at the… — Michael Mewshaw 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
I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Therefore, no matter how the world makes out in the next few centuries, a large class of readers at least will not… — L. Sprague de Camp Copy Share Image
Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment. — Roberto Matta Copy Share Image
“My good fellow,” said Mesnil, stopping, “ever since the creation of the world there have been men like me specially intended to… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Dandies, who – as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe,… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
For how smart we think we are, how facile with words, we don't have a word for this feeling, the feeling of… — Kathleen Moore Copy Share Image
I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
