Astonishment Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

The Astonishment Tapes will now take its place within the growing field of international research about postwar American poetry's important contribution to world literature. Miriam Nichols has once again done exceptional scholarship.

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.

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.

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

Rome is an astonishment!

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.

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

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