“A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart—a heart that is astonished at grace.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
But nowadays everybody's a comedian, even the weather girls and continuity announcers. We laugh at everything. Not intelligently anymore, not with sudden… — Douglas Adams 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
Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body. — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
Man feels the urge to run up against the limits of language. Think for example of the astonishment that anything at all… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I doubt that the phenomenon was any terrestrial reflection, because... nothing of the kind has ever appeared before or since... I was… — Clyde Tombaugh 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
For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust… — Stephen King 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
The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment. — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House… — Margaret Thatcher 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 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
I found myself desiring and knowing less and less, until I could say in utter astonishment: "I know nothing, I want nothing."… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
It was so simple that a flash of astonishment that felt like pain shot through her head. Education! That was it! It… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“A Permeable Life is about what presses out from the heart, what comes in at a slant and what shimmers below the… — Carrie Newcomer Copy Share Image
The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
The most violent expression of God's wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. If ever a person had room to complain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
