The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment. — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
“My good fellow,” said Mesnil, stopping, “ever since the creation of the world there have been men like me specially intended to… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“He answered the phone to his daughter with a broken but joyous heart, ready to speak with her of astonishment and wonder.” — Patrick Ness 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
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
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
I don't care that much about rote memorization. An old boyfriend of mine used to get into lacerating arguments with his parents… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. 'There were stars,' He said. 'They burned my eyes.’ ...from a Himmel… — Markus Zusak 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
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
“The astonishment soon passed off, the scales seemed to drop from his eyes, and the book became at once and for ever… — Thomas Hughes 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
I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It… — Charles Dickens 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
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
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
From his soft fur, golden and brown, Goes out so sweet a scent, one night I might have been embalmed in it… — Charles Baudelaire 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 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
“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
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 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
The habits of craft, developed day in and day out over a working lifetime, create moments of astonishment, sublime and magical effects,… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
To my utter astonishment I saw an airship descending over my cow lot. It was occupied by six of the strangest beings… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth,… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
First of all, I find everything very astonishing. The astonishment that things can change so much over such a short span of… — HoYeon Jung Copy Share Image
In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy,… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
For a moment Clary thought she might fall; she felt as if something essential had been torn away from her, an arm… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“He is astonished at the fact of his being, and this astonishment leads to reflection: as he leans over the river of… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
My reaction to your news is delighted astonishment that Lanark has been judged more popular than a book by Ian Rankin, and… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon… — Maria Monk Copy Share Image
“He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
