#astonished

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life. ↗

— Anna Freud

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I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me. ↗

— Michael Gambon

#actor #always #anything #astonished #business

I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

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Job was astonished at seeing Almighty God so intent on doing good to us that He seems to have nothing more at heart than to love us and to induce us to love Him in return. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

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I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#chosen #literature #love #others

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#grateful #immensely #proud #touched

People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it. ↗

— Jane Porter

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When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do. ↗

— Chuck Jones

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