Astonishment Quotes

143 Astonishment quotes by 119 unique authors

Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold… — Samuel Johnson
Live in a perpetual great astonishment. — Theodore Roethke
It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House of Commons at… — Margaret Thatcher
I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment. — Unknown Author
I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over. — Rebecca West
A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. — William Sansom
Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and… — Pierre Loti
People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment. — Saint Augustine
Most of the time I am sunk in thought, but at some point on each walk there comes a moment when I look up and… — Bill Bryson
My reaction to your news is delighted astonishment that Lanark has been judged more popular than a book by Ian Rankin, and only regret that… — Christopher Brookmyre
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen… — Marcus Aurelius
Constant reminding ourselves that we not see with our eyes but with our synergetic eye-brain system working as a whole will produce constant astonishment as… — David Eagleman
She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally her own that… — Ayn Rand
...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants. — Derren Brown
I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas… — Charles Darwin
Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement. — Charles Darwin
The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To… — Patrick Stewart
To my utter astonishment I saw an airship descending over my cow lot. It was occupied by six of the strangest beings I ever saw.… — Alexander Hamilton
In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved himself a latter-day… — Christopher Hitchens
I can still recall vividly how Freud said to me, "My dear Jung, promise me never to abandon the sexual theory. That is the most… — Carl Jung
We look back, already, with astonishment, at the daring outrages committed by despotism, on the reason and rights of man; we look forward with joy,… — James Madison
I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened.… — George Combe
There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love. — Mike Nichols
Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications. — Hermann von Helmholtz
Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this crazy, sprawling story. — John Green

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