Amazement Quote by Patrick O'Brian Download Open image “Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.” — Patrick O'Brian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amazement Marriage People Source
I'm amazed, as quirky, individual and selfish as most of us are, that anyone stays married for long. — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Somehow weddings bring out the most insane moments in people's lives. — Diane Keaton Copy Share Image
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In any family, the joy of a wedding must be tinged with a little anxiety. So many marriages fail. Luckily, people often get over… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I think that, on some level, everybody lives vicariously through couples who are getting married. — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage. — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
If you look around, 90 percent of marriages are cliches - people aren't genuinely happy even if they look happy together. — Rahul Dev Copy Share Image
“Christ's blood in heaven, you ignorant, incompetent whey-faced nestlecock, do you think I am a hired spy, an informer? That I have a master,… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“To tell the truth, sir, I believe I had rather sit in the shelter for a while. The cabbage seems to have turned my… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“Never mind the disappointment. Salt water will wash it away. You will be amazed how unimportant it will seem in a week’s time –… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“The weather had freshened almost to coldness, for the wind was coming more easterly, from the chilly currents between Tristan and the Cape; the… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“Of course I do know it is the French who are so wicked; but there are all these people who keep coming and going… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“This short watch that is about to come, or rather these two short watches--why are they called dog watches? Where, heu, heu, is the… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about. — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
It is a great while since I felt the grind of bone under my saw,' he added, smiling with anticipation. — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“But I will tell you another misery that is not to be denied. In the common, natural course of events physicians, surgeons and apothecaries… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“Yet,'said Maturin, pursuing his own thought, 'there is a quality in dogs, I must confess, rarely to be seen elsewhere and that is affection:… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“Physically he was tired and his body relaxed throughout its entire length; his mind was in much the same state, floating free, detached, as… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
We started this together, Leo. Seems only right you come along. You find us a ride, you're in." "Yes!" Leo pumped his fist. *… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer. — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
With education symmetrical and true we will take the dead mass buried by slavery's hand and touch them to life. This beauteous angel, which… — William Tecumseh Vernon Copy Share Image
The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
I think it wasn't so much that the White House altered me in any essential way as that I found the resources with which… — Betty Ford Copy Share Image
He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Sometime in the last ten years the best brains of the Occident discovered to their amazement that we live in an Environment. This discovery… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
When one thinks of the wondrous glory of Christ, how astonishing that He can join with us! But more, when one thinks of His… — George Wigram Copy Share Image
Adlai Stevenson, himself a notable speaker, often reminisced about his last meeting with Churchill. I asked him on whom or what he had based… — William Bourke Cockran Copy Share Image
I realized a long time ago, with a certain amazement, that no mattter how important something is in your life, no matter how huge… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
Basically, I want to spend my time in retreat, but to my own amazement, I agreed to help with a project to start a… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell.… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
