The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
“Elinor looked at him with greater astonishment than ever. She began to think that he must be in liquor...” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I can’t believe it. You’re finally mine,” he said, astonishment in his voice.“I was always yours.” — Alison G. Bailey 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
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
“she regarded with an astonishment that had in it a mild degree of amusement the violence of the feelings which it stirred… — Nella Larsen Copy Share Image
...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants. — Derren Brown 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
I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm,… — Rupert Brooke 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
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
“That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal: from which it follows that irregularity - that is to say, the unexpected,… — Charles Baudelaire 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
In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a… — Nadia Boulanger 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
We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in natural knowledge set afoot… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“John," I murmured, rising from the bed and going to stand by the table, staring down in astonishment at the gold-rimmed china… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
What does it mean to grow rich? Is it to have red-blooded adventures and to make a ‘fortune,’ which is what brought… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
We can never change the story that made us what we are. It's a story accumulated by the manifold complexities-its capacity for… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face… — Annie Dillard 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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential. — Tama J. Kieves 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
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
Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next. — Douglas Adams 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 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
People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“Into this life of cruel wonder sent, Without a word to tell us what it meant, Sent back again without a reason… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
“For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself… — Karen Horney 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
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“My father will be filled with frank astonishment that I should be proving myself capable of earning a living in any capacity… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love. — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
“Then, dramatically, all of a sudden, totally out of nowhere, and to my utter astonishment, absolutely nothing happens.” — James Marshall Copy Share Image
That's an astonishment that we're waiting to find out what the [Donald Trump] policy is, that was the central plank, the central… — Michelle Goldberg Copy Share Image
![“[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a little more than fifty years, and I've gotten over my original astonishment.” quote by Nadia Boulanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b56/nadia-boulanger-17786_astonishment_on-being-asked-how-it-felt-to-be-the-fir_1585465.jpg)
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