Astonishment Quotes

143 Astonishment quotes by 119 unique authors

I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much of it others… — Sonia Sotomayor
Astonishment is the root of philosophy. — Paul Tillich
I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing… — Pat Conroy
Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body. — Stephen Dunn
Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business. Mr. Prongs agrees… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she would carry for… — Marilyn French
Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in… — Studs Terkel
One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to it.… — Charles Frazier
To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people… — Alan Watts
A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent… — Terry Eagleton
If you want some advice—which I'm sure you don't—you guys should lay off on the magic. Christian still thinks you're moving in on Lissa." "What?"… — Richelle Mead
We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but… — Erich Maria Remarque
It was so simple that a flash of astonishment that felt like pain shot through her head. Education! That was it! It was education that… — Betty Smith
I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a… — Markus Zusak
Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfigurations," said Ron, to general astonishment. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into… — George Orwell
I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet, teaching me something… — Muriel Barbery
I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face belonging to a… — Annie Dillard
Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next. — Douglas Adams
For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only… — Stephen King
For a moment Clary thought she might fall; she felt as if something essential had been torn away from her, an arm or a leg,… — Cassandra Clare
From his soft fur, golden and brown, Goes out so sweet a scent, one night I might have been embalmed in it By giving him… — Charles Baudelaire
Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or… — Garrison Keillor
But how much better, in any case, to wonder than not to wonder, to dance with astonishment and go spinning in praise, than not to… — Eudora Welty
That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment,… — Charles Baudelaire

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