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I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living.
— Enid Bagnold
The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment!
— Ellis Peters
Elinor looked at him with greater astonishment than ever. She began to think that he must be in liquor...
— Jane Austen
Felt astonishment at the idea of that much leisure that much spare cash flying away into bottles and vials.
— Rose Tremain
People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.
— Saint Augustine
A quite specific astonishment stands at the beginning of every theological perception, inquiry, and thought.
— Karl Barth
Louisiana has a larger alligator population than any other state. Just over a million.""Over a million!" exclaimed Amelia with astonishment. — Linda Weaver Clarke
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
— Eugene Ionesco
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
— Terence McKenna
I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.
— Theodore Sturgeon
Call me Beth, please," she said. "I am no longer Mrs. Ackerley and have become, to our mutual astonishment, your sister." Hart
— Jennifer Ashley
Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
— Charles Caleb Colton
I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.
— Rebecca West
I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Mr Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a Professor.
— J.K. Rowling
The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.
— Jean Houston
Magic is not about having a puzzle to solve. It's about creating a moment of awe and astonishment. And that can be a beautiful thing
— David Blaine
I am being followed, I realized, with a blend of certitude and astonishment, like a soldier discovering that gangrene has taken hold of his leg.
— Roberto Bolano
Live in a perpetual great astonishment.
— Theodore Roethke
Then, dramatically, all of a sudden, totally out of nowhere, and to my utter astonishment, absolutely nothing happens.
— James Marshall
One day, to everyone's astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up.
— James A. Baldwin
To his astonishment and terror, and lasting delight, Sam saw a vast shape crash out of the trees and come careering down the slope.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
The Emrys! The Emrys is here!' Merlin shook his head in astonishment. 'Has it come to this?' he wondered. 'Even small children know me by sight. — Stephen R. Lawhead
Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
— Charles Darwin
Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.
— Salman Rushdie
Life is shit, thought Pelletier in astonishment, all of it.
— Roberto Bolano
The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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
Your total intelligence knows how to accomplish astounding feats. You just need a clear objective. Get clear. You will surprise yourself!
— Bryant McGill
Mrs. Pontellier gave over being astonished, and concluded that wonders would never cease.
— Kate Chopin
I can't believe it. You're finally mine," he said, astonishment in his voice."I was always yours.
— Alison G. Bailey
Witness each moment in astounded jubilation. Take every holy breath in gratitude. Rejoice in life!
— Bryant McGill
They seek neither truth nor likelihood; they seek astonishment. They think metaphysics is a branch of the literature of fantasy
— Jorge Luis Borges
There is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants.
— Derren Brown
A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say 'Wow!'
— Joel Meyerowitz
We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance with barbarism.
— Sigmund Freud
If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment.
— William Macneile Dixon
There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.
— Mike Nichols
Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
— Paul Tillich
He answered the phone to his daughter with a broken but joyous heart, ready to speak with her of astonishment and wonder.
— Patrick Ness
The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential.
— Tama J. Kieves
Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfigurations, said Ron, to general astonishment.
— J.K. Rowling
There is that unique moment when one confronts something new and astonishment begins.
— Diane Ackerman
It's not how the world is, but that it is, that is cause for astonishment.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.
— Thaddeus Stevens
In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.
— Max Lerner
A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Relearn astonishment.
— Elias Canetti
Who can adequately express his astonishment at the changes of fortune, and the mysterious vicissitudes in human affairs?
— Stacy Schiff
The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich
— Andrew Carnegie
When my astonishment had worn off, and then my awe, and then my delight, I looked over at the Chief.
— J.D. Salinger
Rome is an astonishment!
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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[D]avid began to argue, with the whining intonations of German astonishment, [ ... ] that everyone did it.
— Vladimir Nabokov
My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
— Florentijn Hofman
I am all astonishment.
— Jane Austen
His face registered the five stages of unlawful investigation: disbelief, skepticism, impatience, irritation, and astonishment.
— Suzanne M. Trauth
Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.
— Douglas Adams
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It's the astonishment of being myself
— Jorge Luis Borges