Simon,” she whispered, vaguely surprised that she had just used his first name, for she had never used it even in the… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I have been accused of having believed when I wrote Sex and Temperament that there are no sex differences... This, many readers… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it:… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished of his proportion; and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How a regulation so unjust in itself, so foreign to the authority of Congress, and so hurtful to the sale of public… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Much of our understanding of God's action in our lives in achieved in hindsight. When a particular crisis or event in our… — Sheila Cassidy Copy Share Image
At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to… — Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Copy Share Image
Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and discipline to look good… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
The unphilosophical and philosophical attitudes can be very sharply distinguished (with scarcely any intermediate forms) by the fact that the first accepts… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
But how much better, in any case, to wonder than not to wonder, to dance with astonishment and go spinning in praise,… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
One day, to everyone’s astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Magic is not about having a puzzle to solve. It's about creating a moment of awe and astonishment. And that can be… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the… — George Combe Copy Share Image
A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the… — William Sansom Copy Share Image
The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship, which was… — Olaudah Equiano Copy Share Image
The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
The shortness of life, which we all discuss, but which is very clear to me at the moment, makes keeping and spreading… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
When I met Miller, for me it wasn't a question of wanting to meet him because it was Arthur Miller; it was… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
