Quotes About Astonishing

I would have thought he would be there out of just plain curiosity. It was incredible that he was missing.

We have spent centuries of philosophy trying to solve the problem of evil, yet I believe the much more confounding and astounding issue is the problem of good. How do we account for so much gratuitous and sheer goodness in this world? Tackling this problem would achieve much better results.

And in the fountain squatted a giant crab. I'm not talking 'giant' like $7.99 all-you-can-eat Alaskan king crab. I'm talking 'giant' like bigger than the fountain.

Astonishing things happen all the time," Jackson said. "We just don't notice.

Everything was astonishing. The setting sun was illuminating each blade of grass. It was reflecting off the girl's glasses, making a halo of light around the girl's round head, setting the whole world on fire.

Alfred T. Slipper was a janitor. Most of the time (often, in fact) they treated him with disdain. They had no idea of the astonishing acts of heroism, the blinding light, contained within his outward humdrum disguise. Only Alfred's parakeet, Dolores, knew who he was and what he could do.

O, wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful, wonderful! and yet again wonderful! and after that, out of all whooping.

In an average life lived by a relatively average soul, what else remains but singular moments of astonishingly framed light?

Well, that's me," Cletus said. "I've seen a lot of strange things. Hell, I've seen Jasper eat barbecue. Takes a lot to faze me.

But solace also asks us very direct and forceful questions. Firstly, how will you bear the inevitable loss that is coming to you? And how will you endure it through the years? And above all, how will you shape a life equal to and as beautiful and as astonishing as a world that can birth you, bring you into the light and then just as you were beginning to understand it, take you away?

She burst into snakes.

It was astonishing, I mused, how often people claimed to be honest when they were simply making a virtue of excessive rudeness.

Love." She looked at me with those blue eyes. "Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It attracts so many other things, doesn't it, that stick to it like barnacles on rock...fear, guilt. Need. You can't even see the rock anymore. I imagine love in its purest form is a rare thing.

If I had a pound for every time I heard Ollie Watkins' name I could buy half of London!

Robert Quinn. He's ridiculous. He can do anything a DB can do... at three hundred pounds!

Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.

My own words cast a shadow a never meant. Please forget them. Or not. The shadows we speak sometimes are what tell us how astonishing the morning, is, as here, where a last owl tightens a grip on a branch, where a last chance circles with the first swallows.

Not everything about me is cute." "That's true, some things are cute. The rest are sexy. Astonishing, agonizingly sexy. It's a wonder I can get anything done at all, when all I ever think about is the way your lips taste or how your fingertips feel on my skin or how your legs are..." "Adrian, shut up.

It's a bird of some sort. It's like a duck, only I never saw a duck have so many colors. The bird swam swiftly and gracefully toward the Magic Isle, and as it drew nearer its gorgeously colored plumage astonished them. The feathers were of many hues of glistening greens and blues and purples, and it had a yellow head with a red plume, and pink, white and violet in its tail.

Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.

On days like this you can see into the bluest depth of things, their previously unknown, astonishing equations—you see them in even the most familiar everyday thing.

The human creature is so astonishing, but count on it before anything else to be just that-a creature. A laughing animal, a dangerous one, a clever one, a scared one, but always acting for a reason-a motive that will move the beast towards its desires.

unbelievable

This means the grand, the small, the bizarre, the poetic, the beautiful, the ugly, the surprising. Just like life. But absolutely, unconditionally, resolutely nothing ordinary.