Quotes About Astonishment

It's about surprise, really. If you can surprise them you don't have to hit them very hard.

It's possible to perceive what is coming and still be dumbfounded when it happens.

discovering that hunter-gatherers had constructed Göbekli Tepe was like finding that someone had built a 747 in a basement with an X-Acto knife.

I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more

What fresh hell is this?" Adina muttered.

Good God. he said incredulously. You've got a black belt in purse attack, that's for damn sure.

At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.

how little one knows, really, about anything! And how grossly incurious one remains about so many things, what an enormous number of intrinsically astonishing achievements one merely takes for granted!

The Savage, wrote Bernard in his report to Mustapha Mond, shows surprisingly little astonishment at, or awe of, civilized inventions. This is partly due, no doubt, to the fact that he has heard them talked about by the woman Linda, his m---. (Mustapha Mond frowned. Does the fool think I'm too squeamish to see the word written out at full length?)

Así vio, por último, de improviso, el cielo sobre el palacio mancharse con el vuelo de cientos de pájaros, como expulsados fuera de la tierra, pájaros de todo tipo, estupefactos, huir por todas partes, enloquecidos, cantando y gritando, pirotécnica explosión de alas y nube de colores disparada en la luz, y de sonidos, asustados, música en fuga, volando en el cielo.

your jaw would hit the table in astonishment.

Patriotic'? Dear, dear me!" Scarlett covered her mouth in mock astonishment. "I didn't know that was 'patriotism.' I believe what you intended has ruder names, though no well-bred Georgia lady would admit to knowing them.

and that's the blank unholy suprise of it.

Perhaps it's rude to notice when a wizard does something strange.

Miss Trudie said, "Well, like my momma used to say, butter my butt and call me a biscuit. This takes the cake.

What in the holy hell? I think again.

Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding word like ... ow ... ound... round... ground! That's it! That's a good name -- ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?

gasped in disbelief as the three men I was following vanished before my eyes, one after another. Just like that. Like human-sized versions of Yondu drones.

News comes from nowhere.

Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?

I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.

Be infinitely flexible and constantly amazed.

I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.