“ This is the true wine of astonishment: "We are not over when we think we are.” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body. — Stephen Dunn 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
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
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
Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were… — Lewis Thomas 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
“Witness each moment in astounded jubilation. Take every holy breath in gratitude. Rejoice in life!” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“The numbers could never be as favorable as they were right now, when his naiveté would be subtracted from my expertise to… — Alissa Nutting 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
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
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
“A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the… — William Sansom 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… — Baruch Spinoza 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
With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge,… — Joseph Addison 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
Constant reminding ourselves that we not see with our eyes but with our synergetic eye-brain system working as a whole will produce… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a unanimity almost… — James Madison 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“When you see something excellent or something very beautiful, a silent astonishment will be the greatest word one can ever say to… — Mehmet Murat ildan 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
“Felt astonishment at the idea of that much leisure that much spare cash flying away into bottles and vials.” — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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