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Quotes About Amazement

The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful, wonderful: I'm surprised half the time
~ A. R. Ammons
Australia is a phenomenally beautiful country, and every time I go away and come back, it never ceases to amaze me.
~ David Wenham
You can't throw too much style into a miracle.
~ Mark Twain
You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.
~ Mark Twain
You can't put too much spin on a miracle.
~ Mark Twain
I'll give you a marvel.
~ Mark Twain
But, oh my god, look what's happened.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Stanley Hopkins was speechless with amazement. I don't know what to say, Mr. Holmes, he blurted out at last, with a very red face. It seems to me that I have been making a fool of myself from the beginning. I understand now, what I should never have forgotten, that I am the pupil and you are the master. Even now I see what you have done, but I don't know how you did it or what it signifies.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Feeling pity for him, I stopped to browse and was stunned to discover what he had on offer. He
~ Atul Gawande
This was one place where I knew I had found something worthy of awe.
~ Atul Gawande
What shocked us the most was that we had no idea why we should be so shocked. Like opening a ginger ale and finding Jamesons' inside: nothing wrong with it, but it sort of takes you by surprise.
~ Spider Robinson
It was like when you see a movie in the theater during the day, and when you leave the movie, you can't believe that it's still daylight outside
~ Stephen Chbosky
I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.
~ Stephen Fry
You get used to marvelous things. You take them for granted. You can try not to, but you do. There's too much wonder, that's all. It's everywhere.
~ Stephen King
We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.
~ John Owen
It's amazing. I can do anything. And do it well. Any good thing, I can do it. That's why I am who I am, yes, because God loves me and I'm amazed at it. I'm grateful for it.
~ Maya Angelou
I didn't think places like this existed outside films.
~ Jojo Moyes
back?" said Norm's dad. Gordon flipping Bennett. thought
~ Jonathan Meres
Sur terre, ce ne sont pas les occasions de s'émerveiller qui manquent, mais les émerveillés.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
And at five o'clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in the van. I was stunned by the beauty of that country.
~ Erika Slezak
I can't believe
~ Erin Hunter
Blade's jaw dropped
~ Erin Hunter
who still looked as if some cat had hit him over the head with a dead pigeon.
~ Erin Hunter
I've never seen before
~ Erin Hunter