Amazement Quotes - Page 2

• The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Respect

  1970 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.34

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• Worship without wonder is lifeless and boring. Many have lost their sense of awe and amazement when it comes to God. Having begun with the arrogant presumption of knowing about God all that one can, they reduce Him to manageable terms and confine Him to a tidy theological box, the dimensions of which conform to their predilections of what a god ought to be and do.

  Sam Storms

  Knowing, Arrogant, Dimensions

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• I realized a long time ago, with a certain amazement, that no mattter how important something is in your life, no matter how huge it is, how much space it takes up in your heart and in your thoughts, unless you mention it to other people, they have no idea it exists.

  Sharon Shinn

  Heart, Ideas, Space

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• I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Humor, Play

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• If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vince Lombardi (1998). “Seeing the Win: Why I Believe Vision Coaching is Vital to Winning Business Teams in the 21st Century”

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• Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Passion, Essence

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• Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Flower, Humble, Eye

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.645, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Weather, Heaven, Storm

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1874). “Flashes of thought; 1000 choice extr. from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”, p.175

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• I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart.

  Doug Ose

  Stupid, Smart, Mean

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• The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement.

  Hans Selye

  Science, Scientist, Faculty

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• Every movie I get involved with I get involved in as big a level as I possibly can, but this has been a very much more personal journey for me, so bringing it here tonight there's a sense of relief, there's a sense of just amazement that got here... because it's been a struggle. But this is a good way to launch it and there couldn't be a better way of celebrating this movie than bringing it to the West End.

  Daniel Craig

  Struggle, Journey, Relief

  "Flashbacks Of A Fool - Daniel Craig interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement.

  Michele Cassou

  Discovery, Joy, Paint

  Michele Cassou, Stewart Cubley (1996). “Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous”, p.28, Penguin

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• Everyone declares that love is irrational, and yet everytime this statement is proven correct, they profess amazement. They seem to assume that love will make an exception in their case. It never does.

  Jessica Zafra

  Love Is, Doe, Assuming

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• And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

  Maya Angelou

  Religious, Stars, Thinking

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.psychologytoday.com. February 17, 2009.

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• "I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Men, Said

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work, in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Selfish, Reflection

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.182, Open Road Media

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• I do not think a day passes in my life in which I fail to look with fresh amazement at the miracle of nature.

  Pablo Casals

  Thinking, Miracle, Looks

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• O amazement of things-even the least particle!

  Walt Whitman

  Science, Leaves Of Grass, Particles

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.303, NYU Press

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• Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Loss, Sorrow, Despair

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• The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.

  Hanna Rosin

  Space, Wonder, Stills

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• My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Chaos, Nothingness

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• The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Writing, Bird, World

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.1118, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Daylight, Normal

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• I think every discovery of the world plunges us into jubilation, a radical amazement that tears apart the veil of triviality.

  Judy Cannato

  Thinking, Discovery, Environmental

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

  Robinson Jeffers

  Culture, Decay, Reason

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1928-1938”, p.518, Stanford University Press

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