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
Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings… — Simone de Beauvoir 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
Every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that… — John Gould Copy Share Image
“Oh, it's Applekit!" Cinderpelt yelped in mock astonishment. "I thought for a heartbeat there was a giant burr chasing me. Never mind.… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There were certainly those who rubbed their eyes in astonishment. But when we held a company discussion forum with Joschka Fischer, interest… — Norbert Reithofer 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
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
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
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
The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together. Their top-heavy dignity… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
For how smart we think we are, how facile with words, we don't have a word for this feeling, the feeling of… — Kathleen Moore Copy Share Image
Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she… — Marilyn French 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
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
Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who… — Mary Oliver 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 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
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
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 wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at… — Pat Conroy 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
A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
Discipline, as understood by a warrior, is creative, open, and produces freedom. It is the ability to face the unknown, transforming the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Dandies, who – as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe,… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly 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
“The stranger's first feeling, when suddenly confronted by that towering and awful apparition wrapped in its shroud of snow, is breath-taking astonishment.… — Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens Copy Share Image
We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening… — Anonymous 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
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
The portion of some is to have their afflictions by drops, now one drop and then another; but the dregs of the… — Mary Rowlandson Copy Share Image
Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
