Astonishment Quotes
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Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body.
Stephen Dunn -
Her disappointment was minor compared to her astonishment. “Again I didn’t win? But last year I didn’t win also!”
Bel Kaufman
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There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.
Mike Nichols -
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
Celia Green -
A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all.
William Sansom -
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
Terence McKenna -
Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.
Studs Terkel -
A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.
Terry Eagleton