Quotes About Astonishment

It's Peter the goat-herd," murmured Tim in astonishment, "right out of Heidi! We can teach him to read and write, and then we'll all smile and hug and say religious things!

And then his world turned into a pelting rain of flaming snot.

You know how to be a good boy? Anna widened her eyes in surprise. Why, Archer, I'm certain I never recognized that quality in you.

Oh my God. Oh my God," Lyrica whispered, waving her hands in front of her face as she stared at him, eyes wide. "Dawg's gonna have pups when he finds out about this.

To his astonishment, the officers agreed with Lee's views and in a manner, scoffed Hamilton, that "would have done honor to the most honorable society of midwives."27 Washington preferred to operate by consensus

Felt astonishment at the idea of that much leisure that much spare cash flying away into bottles and vials.

The man who ceases to be astonished is hollow, possessed of an extinguished heart.

Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.

When they saw the host of chameleon butterflies and the way they both clothed the girl Ayesha and provided her with her only solid food, these visitors were amazed, and retreated with confounded expectations, that is to say with a hole in their pictures of the world that they could not paper over.

Miracles are great, but they're so damn unpredictable.

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.

What! cried he, in an accent of greater astonishment than beforem your second witness is Monsieur Aramis? Doubtless! Are you not aware that we are never seen one without the others, and that we are called among the Musketeers and the Guards, at the court and in the city, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, or the Three Inseparables?

Sometimes you think you know what's going to happen next, and then the world surprises you

You know what love is? Maureen said to me that day...it's what you least expect.

This is the true wine of astonishment: We are not over when we think we are.

It always making little surprises and springing them on us when us least expect.

La gente guardaba silencio como en presencia de un milagro; el espanto y el terror habían atado todas las lenguas.

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you. Also, here is a green toothbrush tied in a ribbon. It expresses my feelings inadequately.

a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments

At once he was horrified too; saw that the idea was monstrous; abused

Like I said, she always amazes me.

Then his mouth fell open. A dwarf—a real dwarf, with an axe and a beard and a mail shirt, and all!

Howling apples!" gasped T. X. "It's from John Lexman!