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Rome is an astonishment!
Live in a perpetual great astonishment.
Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment.
Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.
To mourn, perhaps, is simply to prolong a posture of astonishment.
I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.
I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment.
In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.
My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.
Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body.
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
There is that unique moment when one confronts something new and astonishment begins.
The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential.
One day, to everyone’s astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up.
I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.
If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment.
The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.
Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.
There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.
There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.
Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.
Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfigurations," said Ron, to general astonishment.
Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.
Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.
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.
HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.
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!'
I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment."
That`s an astonishment that we`re waiting to find out what the [Donald Trump] policy is, that was the central plank, the central rationale for his candidacy.
People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
He produced a handkerchief—crisply folded—and handed it to her. She took it with silent astonishment. She’d never before known anyone who carried a handkerchief.
When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and see to my astonishment that three hours have passed.
Frederick Buechner brings the reader to his knees, sometimes in laughter, sometimes in an astonishment very close to prayer, and at the best of times in a combination of both.
I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.
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 lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.
This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.
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 astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.
I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
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. They were jabbering together, but we could not understand a word they said.
When you're a kid, Beethoven is Beethoven, but as I've grown older, my astonishment at the sheer inventiveness of the man has increased, and I have an appreciation that I didn't have when I was in my 20s.
While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.