Astonishment Quotes

To my utter astonishment I saw an airship descending over my cow lot. It was occupied by six of the strangest beings I ever saw. They were jabbering together, but we could not understand a word they said.

I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.

There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.

That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.

Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.

I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment.

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.

I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don't know if God even exists, although I confess that I sometimes find myself praying in times of great fear, or despair, or astonishment at a display of unexpected beauty.

One day, to everyone’s astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up.

Live in a perpetual great astonishment.

Astonishment is the proper response to reality.

The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.

I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment."

The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.

I am all astonishment.

Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them.

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.

To mourn, perhaps, is simply to prolong a posture of astonishment.

When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself

HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.

At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to check me; he said the whole idea was so disgusting that he could not entertain it for a moment.

In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say 'Wow!'

I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living.

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

Much of our understanding of God's action in our lives in achieved in hindsight. When a particular crisis or event in our life has passed we cry out in astonishment like Jacob, 'The Lord is in this place and I never knew it.

If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment.

I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.

This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and awe- - that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity.

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.

People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.

He produced a handkerchief—crisply folded—and handed it to her. She took it with silent astonishment. She’d never before known anyone who carried a handkerchief.

We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us.

Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfigurations," said Ron, to general astonishment.

She had imagined Jace leaping from the bed in astonishment and gasping something like "Egad!" This didn't happen-largely, she suspected, because Jace had seen much stranger things in his life, and also because nobody used the word "Egad!" anymore. His eyes widened, though.

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment.

Rome is an astonishment!

Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body.

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The Emrys! The Emrys is here!' Merlin shook his head in astonishment. 'Has it come to this?' he wondered. 'Even small children know me by sight.

There is that unique moment when one confronts something new and astonishment begins.

The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential.

Frederick Buechner brings the reader to his knees, sometimes in laughter, sometimes in an astonishment very close to prayer, and at the best of times in a combination of both.

Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.

That`s an astonishment that we`re waiting to find out what the [Donald Trump] policy is, that was the central plank, the central rationale for his candidacy.