#astonished

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

— Chuck Jones

#i #job #me #offer #pay

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make. ↗

— David Lee Roth

#choices #continually #girlfriends #i #like

I'm astonished by my success. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#i #success

If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more. ↗

— Brad Bird

#any #anyone #astonished #because #come

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn. ↗

— Gunter Grass

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that. ↗

— John Keats

#been #could #die #i #love

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#clean #enough #how #leave #new

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#astonished #be true #because #cease #does

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there … now instead of then. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#eternity #infinite #life #myself #space

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

— Anna Freud

#call #goes #life #longing #some