Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body. — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“ 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
“We are both astonishments, the closest thing in the known universe to a miracle” — John Green Copy Share Image
“It's not how the world is, but that it is, that is cause for astonishment.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment… — Barbara Mertz 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
People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment. — Saint Augustine 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
Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next. — Douglas Adams 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
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
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
Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The first time I set out to find George F. Kennan, in 1982, I had just turned 21, begun my final semester… — Barton Gellman 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
I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I… — Anonymous 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
It certainly strikes the beholder with astonishment, to perceive what vast difficulties can be overcome by the pigmy arms of little mortal… — Anonymous 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
She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“This did not in any way alter her intention of accomplishing her mission; on the contrary; it seemed to her all the… — Jane Bowles 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
To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who… — Garrison Keillor 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
I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
There is that unique moment when one confronts something new and astonishment begins. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. — Celia Green Copy Share Image
We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which… — Richard Dawkins 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 Emrys! The Emrys is here!' Merlin shook his head in astonishment. 'Has it come to this?' he wondered. 'Even small children… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment. — William Macneile Dixon Copy Share Image
Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
