Best Astonished Thoughts
187 Astonished quotes by 162 unique authors
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My demon's a girl? Gideon said, astonished.
— Gena Showalter
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When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can…
— Blaise Pascal
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Once in a while you find yourself in an odd situation. You get into it by degrees and in the most natural way but, when…
— Thor Heyerdahl
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Am I jealous? he thought, astonished. Jealous of the chance object to which she has attached herself? Jealous of something that does not concern me?…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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And so what? I just killed a demon in my own house, and you're going to be a dickhead about it because I'm not some…
— Cassandra Clare
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I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have…
— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
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For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction…
— Flannery O'Connor
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Your light is seen, your heart is known, your soul is cherished by more people than you might imagine. If you knew how many others…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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His attention caught, her companion raised his eyes from the book which lay open beside him on the table and directed them upon her in…
— Georgette Heyer
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Thing was' he faced them, and Harry was astonished to see that he was grinning, 'they bit of a bit more than they could chew…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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How could you have guessed?” Miserable though Will was, he felt free, as if a heavy burden had been displaced from him. “I did all…
— Cassandra Clare
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The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom…
— John Stuart Mill
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I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts…
— Erwin Schrodinger
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For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the…
— Charles Darwin
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My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is…
— Murray Gell-Mann
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Whenever television cameras are interviewing people in their homes, I tend to look over their shoulders and have a good snoop at their living rooms.…
— Craig Brown
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I want e by Jose Andres to be a discovery, to be a journey. I want people to find it and be astonished.
— Jose Andres Puerta
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Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring…
— John Updike
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In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out.
— Richard Flanagan
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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be…
— John Keats
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I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was…
— Howard Carter
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Job was astonished at seeing Almighty God so intent on doing good to us that He seems to have nothing more at heart than to…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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And her parents were astonished: but he charged them that they should tell no man what was done.
— Bible
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I…
— Josh Billings
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