Best Astonishment Lines
143 Astonishment quotes by 119 unique authors
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If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am little and weak,…
— Charles Dickens
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Simon,” she whispered, vaguely surprised that she had just used his first name, for she had never used it even in the privacy of her…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!” and…
— Mary Oliver
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I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the…
— Mark Twain
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Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech…
— George Steiner
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It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it: that it is…
— Neil MacGregor
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The first time I set out to find George F. Kennan, in 1982, I had just turned 21, begun my final semester at Princeton University…
— Barton Gellman
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And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her,…
— Bible
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Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and…
— Bible
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Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
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Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight,…
— Bible
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Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our…
— Eugene Ionesco
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If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment.
— Unknown Author
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And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the age of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishment.
— Bible
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Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that mayhappen in…
— Marcus Aurelius
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To the questions of the officiously meddling police Falter replied absently and tersely; but, when he finally grew tired of this pestering, he pointed out…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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I want to grow a flower for every time someone tells me F*** you. Then Ill go back to that person and pin the flower…
— Jarod Kintz
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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
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