Quotes About Amazement

words from a Davison Jeffers poem taped up on the refrigerator door. Here they are: There is no reason for amazement; surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.

Not sure there is such a thing as a minor miracle.

The universe was full of wonders. Some of them would drive you insane if you thought about them too long.

The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

With a fluency that amazed me lies and treachery streamed from my lips. I was in extreme pain.

He did not read. This continued to amaze Ludens who could not imagine existence without reading.

It's just one of the wonders of the world.

a las mil maravillas.

Jehoshaphat!

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk ... it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.

I'm just impressed when someone can capture all the crazy beauty of the light that is all around us. It's amazing to me. I don't consider myself a photographer, but I really want to get into it.

It always amazes me when people go rent horses and ride them. You mean you want me to pay you to ride a horse?

It was so wonderful that I do not know how to describe this first glimpse of things never heard of, seen or dreamed of before.

And did anyone here bring me food? I'm famished." [Gregor's] fingers found a stray fortune cookie from the night before and he pulled it out. "Here," he said. Ripred reacted with exaggerated amazement. "Oh, heavens, is this whole thing for me?" "Look, I didn't even know --" Gregor began. "No, please. Don't apologize." Ripred's tongue darted out and flicked the cookie into his mouth. "Oh, yes, oh, my word," he raved as he chewed and swallowed. "I'm absolutely stuffed!

Wonderful; such an active word——to be full of wonder.

I stumbled upon something and someone so magnificent I was truly blind to it.

They have the divine eyes of little girls Who are amazed and laugh at everything that gleams.

Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.

To him, the world had no order of succession, no causation, no precedent. Everything he saw was new-minted, and thus every day was a parade of wonders.

Dear God," whispers Pete, "it's full of posters!

We take miracles for granted on a daily basis.

We live in an age of miracles.