Quotes About Astonishment

Anyone but Aes Sedai would have gaped at her. As it was, Romanda very nearly spluttered.

gaze. It had been a rhetorical question, and she was astounded

The applicant was taken aback by that question.

Little Jem had said Wow-ga that morning. What were principalities and powers, the rise and fall of dynasties, the overthrow of Grit or Tory, compared with that miraculous occurrence?

Holy shit, somebody muttered in the dark. A virgin, sputtered another. I didn't know they still made them. He just did.

It certainly strikes the beholder with astonishment, to perceive what vast difficulties can be overcome by the pigmy arms of little mortal man, aided by science and directed by superior skill.

Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.

We are not sufficiently astonished by the fact that any science may be possible.

When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone before, I was led into such perplexity by the unbelievability of the thing that I began to doubt the faith of my own eyes.

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

It's--my God--like you stretched a tarp across a stadium to turn it into a giant tom-tom and crashed a 747 into it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

Between astonishment and grief, I was tearless

Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe . . . I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.

The most expected thing you can expect is what's unexpected.

54 Jesús pues la cogió de la mano y dijo en alta voz: Niña levántate. 55 Y de repente volvió su alma al cuerpo, y se levantó al instante. Y Jesús mandó que le diesen de comer. 56 Y quedaron sus padres llenos de asombro, a los cuales mandó que a nadie dijesen lo que había sucedido. 9

Good God!" he said. "Are you a faculty wife?

He knelt in the grass and gently pulled off the helmet. A familiar face smiled up at him. Charlie couldn't speak. His astonishment, his joy was too great. He could feel the others gathering behind him, murmuring, 'It can't be!' 'Is it, really?' 'Why didn't we know?

My jaw drops to form a capital O, as in, O Holy Shit.

He hadn't expected anyone so pretty, and it threw him. Tina had the Faye Dunaway thing. Faye before the surgery, when her cheekbones were still as sharp as can openers and she looked like a feral gazelle.

Jesu, she was naked!

Twenty-five? Shawn squawked, horrified. Good Lord, he's a fetus!

The deuce, it is!" Mason ejaculated.

But how much better, in any case, to wonder than not to wonder, to dance with astonishment and go spinning in praise, than not to know enough to dance or praise at all; to be blessed with more imagination than you might know at the given moment what to do with than to be cursed with too little to give you -- and other people -- any trouble.