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.
I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance. . . and bitter, exaggerated, last-stitch resistance. . . to every significant technological change that had taken place on earth. Usually the resistance came from those groups who stood to lose influence, status, money. . . as a result of the change. Although they never advanced this as their reason for resisting it. It was always the good of humanity that rested upon their hearts.
Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement.
I must confess the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord Vetinari. Outright theft as a policy had never occurred to him.
We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.
Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.
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.
When I compare life to a dream I do not mean to denigrate it as some sort of meaningless fantasy. Life is too wonderful to be called an "illusion" unless we whisper the word in amazement, as we might when witnessing the most astonishing magic trick. What could be more magnificent than this glorious universe, in all its multifarious extravagance? Its awesome vastness and delicate detail. Its impersonal precision and intimate intensity. Its harsh necessities and lush sensuality. This dream of life is truly marvelous.
Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him.
The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.
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.
There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.
Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?
The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.
Aphrodite,” [Annabeth] said. “Venus?” Hazel asked in amazement. “Mom,” Piper said with no enthusiasm. “Girls!” The goddess spread her arms like she wanted a group hug. The three demigods did not oblige. Hazel backed into a palmetto tree.
While you’re alive there’s no time for minor amazements.
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.
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
I imagine our first glimpse of Heaven will cause us to gasp in amazement and delight. That first gasp will likely be followed by many more as we continually encounter new sights in that endlessly wonderful place.
