Quotes About Amazement

Life is too wonderful, too full, too short and strength too limited to contain its wonder.

The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.

a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments

Los griegos decían que el asombro es el principio del conocimiento, y si dejamos de asombrarnos corremos el riesgo de dejar de conocer.

They wished that they also knew Italian, for our phrases of approval and of amazement are so connected with little occasions that we fear to use them on great ones. We are obliged to become vaguely poetic, or to take refuge in Scriptural reminiscences.

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder." - Eberhard Arnold

What the fish!

Howling apples!" gasped T. X. "It's from John Lexman!

The Greatest Show on Earth.

Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.

There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.

God was just showing off when he created you.

Thou hast showed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

Seventy-six years old," she whispers, "and I can still feel like this? Like a little girl with stars in my eyes?

The surprise was total.

I nearly choked on my milkshake.

I'm double-jointed. I can put my legs over my head, which freaks people out.

We stare at the wonders of the world, dulled-eyed, underwhelmed.

The joy of living, its beauty is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.

Halleck was a continual amazement—a head full of songs, quotations, and flowery phrases…and the heart of an assassin when it came to dealing with the Harkonnens.

Their stupidity does not amaze me, its when they're smart that amazes me. It's baffling whenever you find someone who's smart — incredible. Soon you'll have zoos for such things.