Best Amazement Quotations
148 Amazement quotes by 123 unique authors
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When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer.
— Vin Diesel
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Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
— Jack Kerouac
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When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into…
— Mary Oliver
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It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
— Ben Stein
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The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.
— Hanna Rosin
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled?…
— Abraham Maslow
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I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.
— Sharon Shinn
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the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that,…
— Albert Einstein
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This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness;…
— Thomas Mann
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To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into…
— Mary Oliver
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I stared at her in amazement. "How do you even live with yourself?"..."You're willing to sell children to a foreign government so they can be…
— James Patterson
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Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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One day, quite some time ago, I happened on a photograph of Napoleon’s youngest brother, Jerome, taken in 1852. And I realized then, with an…
— Roland Barthes
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From the girl who sat before me now...surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small animal that has popped into the…
— Haruki Murakami
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Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This…
— Mary Oliver
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The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.
— Andy Warhol
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But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases, I perceive so…
— Rene Descartes
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I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in…
— Jack Kerouac
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Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast. The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. You, Simon? You believe in…
— William Golding
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Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.
— Patrick O'Brian
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I didn't mean for you to take that the wrong way," He said abruptly. Mae stared at him in amazement. So, for that matter, did…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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