Amazement Quotes - Page 4

• The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Gone, Mystery

  Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett (2015). “POPism: The Warhol Sixties”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.

  Mary Oliver

  Inspirational, Sweet, Soul

  FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Mar 28, 2017

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• I looked back and forth at them in amazement. I didn't know if I was witnessing a fight or foreplay. I wasn't thrilled about either option.

  Richelle Mead

  Fighting, Back And Forth, Knows

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.311, Penguin

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• 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

  Brother, Taken, Eye

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• I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in these things. It was with some amazement that I realized I was one of the few people in the world who really believed in these things without going around making a dull middle class philosophy out of it. I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Stars, Philosophy

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• I stared at her in amazement. "How do you even live with yourself?"..."You're willing to sell children to a foreign government so they can be used as weapons, possibly against other Americans. I don't get it. Were you hiding behind a door on morals and ethics day?...You couldn't mother someone if they shot five gallons of estrogen into your veins.

  James Patterson

  Mother, Children, Government

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• One day people will look back with amazement that we ever sought to grow our food with poisons.

  John Robbins

  People, One Day, Poison

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• The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Grace, Tests, Spirituality

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• Basically, I want to spend my time in retreat, but to my own amazement, I agreed to help with a project to start a training center for nuns. I agreed because I think it's really very important for the Western Sangha. I don't know how I'm going to help, but it's important.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Thinking, Training, Important

  Source: fpmt.org

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• I've been in politics all my life. In 1945, I committed my first act of civil disobedience during the election campaign for the first post-World War II general election, when the Labour Party, to everyone's amazement, ousted the Conservatives. I refused to obey the instructions of a policeman, and as a result, almost got a belt around the ear, because those were the days when policemen could hit children and nobody cared, they thought it was probably good for them.

  Patrick Stewart

  Children, War, Party

  Source: time.com

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• If you look at the polling data, long before anyone had thought about Iraq, it was the [George W.] Bush Administration's decision in the first few weeks in its tenure in office to abnegate the Kyoto treaties that set our international perception into a nose-dive. People around the world looked on in amazement as the biggest part of the problem decided it wasn't going to make any effort to help with the solution.

  Bill McKibben

  Data, Iraq, Kyoto

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• One of the great events in my life was my first meeting with Edison. This wonderful man, who had received no scientific training, yet had accomplished so much, filled me with amazement. I felt that the time I had spent studying languages, literature and art was wasted; though later, of course, I learned this was not so.

  Nikola Tesla

  Art, Men, Training

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• Suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything... To be alive is so incredible that all I can do is to lie still and merely breathe.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Lying, Alive, Incredibles

  W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

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• Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride, married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. Instructions for living a life: pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

  Mary Oliver

  Attention, World, Want

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• Adlai Stevenson, himself a notable speaker, often reminisced about his last meeting with Churchill. I asked him on whom or what he had based his oratorical style. Churchill replied, "It was an American statesman who inspired me and taught me how to use every note of the human voice like an organ." Winston then to my amazement started to quote long excerpts from Bourke Cockran's speeches of 60 years before. "He was my model," Churchill said. "I learned from him how to hold thousands in thrall."

  William Bourke Cockran

  Years, Voice, Long

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• Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales - because they find them romantic...This proves that even nursery tales only echo an almost prenatal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Running, Baby, Wine

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• To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the occasional fulfillment of this function, to treasure ancient thoughts of others, to remember with incredulous amazement that the doctor universal is thought, is to confess our languor or barbarism. Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe that in the future he will be." (Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote, 1939)

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• Be collected.
  No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart
  There's no harm done.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Comfort, Done

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.64

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• I have never seen an adequate description anywhere of the amazement, the uncomprehending horror of the bulk of the American people which preceded the firing of that gun at Sumter. Politicians or far-sighted leaders on both sides knew what was coming. And it is they who have written histories of the war. But to the easy-going millions, busied with their farms or shops, the onrushing disaster was as inexplicable as an earthquake. Their protest arose from sea to sea like the clamor of a gigantic hive of frightened bees.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  War, Gun, Sea

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• Lange was hosting a reception at Vogel House for the Chinese politician Hu Yao Bang when the lights went out. Lange immediately asked all the guests to raise their hands because "many hands make light work." The audience complied, and to their amazement the lights immediately came back on. Lange was invited to visit China.

  David Lange

  Light, Hands, House

  "Dominion", (p. 6), March 23, 1992.

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• Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.

  Christian Morgenstern

  World, Language, Realizing

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• Plenty more of the Nays sound perfectly sincere, though. They may genuinely dislike [Bob] Dylan; they may even enjoy or admire him, but just don't think he's all that. Fair enough. The reaction of such folk seems to be chiefly amazement tinged with befuddlement: they've given him what? You're kidding me.

  David Bennun

  Thinking, Sound, May

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Alan Rickman was such a terrific actor, and that was such a terrific character that he played. And it was a joy to be with him. We used to laugh together because we ran out of reaction shots. They were always - when everything had been done and the children were finished, they would turn the camera around and we'd have to do various reaction shots of amazement or sadness and things. We used to say we'd got to about number 200-and-something and we'd run out of knowing what to do when the camera came around on us. But he was a joy.

  Maggie Smith

  Running, Children, Character

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension. He is right most of the time.

  Edwin Boring

  Reading, Order, Half

  "Elementist Going Up". The Scientific Monthly, p. 183, March 1953.

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• I'm from the East Coast. I love the city. I love the characters. I love the kind of people we are, the kind other people look at in amazement.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Character, Cities, People

  "Ralph Bakshi on Kanye West, NYC, and his new short, Last Days Of Coney Island". Interview with Ron Hart, film.avclub.com. November 14, 2015.

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