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Quotes About Amazement

I want to see a good miracle. I want to see a man with one leg, and then I want to see the other leg grow out.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
Here?" said Robin, gazing open-mouthed up at Hazlitt's Hotel. "I can't stay here—this'll be expensive!
~ Robert Galbraith
He was always amazed by her ability to drop her efficient hospital personality, though he understood that she was confident enough in her intellectual abilities that she could indulge her feminine fantasies. It was a rare and wonderful balance.
~ Robin Cook
The thing that surprised
~ Robin Cook
The very fact of snow is such an amazement.
~ Roger Ebert
One day, quite some time ago, I happened on a photograph of Napoleon's youngest brother, Jerome, taken in 1852. And I realized then, with an amazement I have not been able to lessen since: 'I am looking at eyes that looked at the Emperor.' Sometimes I would mention this amazement, but since no one seemed to share it, nor even to understand it (life consists of these little touches of solitude), I forgot about it.
~ Roland Barthes
almost reeling with shock.
~ Ron Chernow
Majid and Henry sat on the floor, staring at each other in the dazed amazement that only survivors know, where every detail is newly crisp and each fresh moment is like a crust of ice on a pond, a thin tangible layer between life and death.
~ Lawrence Wright
over me, I experienced the same thrill and amazement as when I had my first glimpse of the bright lights of Konakry. I shivered with the intensity of my desire to learn to do this wondrous thing myself.6
~ Leonard Shlain
The human bird shall take his first flight,filling the words with amazement,all writings with his fame,and bringing eternal glory to those whose nest whence he sprang.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Curiouser and curiouser!" Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).
~ Lewis Carroll
I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more
~ Lewis Carroll
Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.
~ Lewis Thomas
Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the mere fact of our existence should keep us all in a state of contented dazzlement.
~ Lewis Thomas
Good God. he said incredulously. You've got a black belt in purse attack, that's for damn sure.
~ Linda Howard
know so much more. Mark was certain that learning everything about her would only reinforce what he was already sure of, that she was the most amazing woman he'd ever
~ Linda Lael Miller
Luke stood up, assessed the water tank next to the tub, and shook his head in good-natured amazement. "What a contraption. Makes a man wonder what they'll invent next, doesn't it?" "I wouldn't know," Charity answered, exasperated and bone weary. "I'm not a man." He laughed. "No, indeed, Mrs. Shardlow, you are pure woman and that is a fact.
~ Linda Lael Miller
What history had taught him was Amazement. A tremendous amazement that each time those in jeopardy had been so slow in thinking about their safety.
~ Lion Feuchtwanger
Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.
~ Khalil Gibran
Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement.
~ Jack Kornfield
Life is full of wonder.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Never stop feeling the amazement of partaking in one of the most incredible journeys you will ever walk, the walk of life. " ~ Roy Hale
~ Roy Hale
The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle.
~ Albert Einstein