Quotes About Astonishment

Besides, thought the girl, what miracle didn't look ridiculous while it was happening? If a miracle was ordinary, it would be like, just, so what?

One thing that continually astonishes me is the degree to which we're influenced by sheer convenience. The amount of effort, time, or decision making required by an action has a huge influence on habit formation.

You!" she said in astonishment; "I thought you very light-hearted." "Ah! yes. I seem so, because in the midst of the world I know how to wear the mask of a scoffer upon my face; and yet, how many a time at the sight of a cemetery by moonlight have I not asked myself whether it were not better to join those sleeping there!

The truth is always a surprise.

She grimaced when Raibeart picked up the hanks of Edmee's hair and looked at her with a mixture of astonishment and amusement. "Wheesht, lass, ye may be but a wee thing, but ye can be vicious, aye?" Raibeart drawled. "I

I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.

When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.

Being pregnant was, well, inconceivable.

As a matter of fact, despite your obstinacy, your infernal prying, and the fact that you invariably blurt out whatever comes into your head, regardless of the consequences, I admit that there are times when I find you irresistible, too.' I stared in astonishment at Robert's back as he rose to pay the bill. What in heaven's name, I wondered, did he mean by that?

En mi corazón ¿predominaba la ira o el remordimiento? La ira convertida en resentimiento se volvía más incómoda; el remordimiento convertido en asombro, más llevadero.

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

The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

I glanced up at him. "I love things that are beautiful when you don't expect them to be.

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

Jesus … bats an eyelash, and nature jumps.

I stood dumfounded, founded in dumbness.

As what-the-fuck moments went, this one was one of the bigger ones.

Well, I'll be damned," he said in an awed tone. "Never thought I'd see the day.

They really do look gold.How is that even possible?How can someone have golden eyes?

Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all. One. Two. Three. Blink. A girl is laughing with her friends. Suddenly, a crater splits apart the earth. Through it bursts a man in an ink black chariot forged in the deepest pits of hell, drawn by stallions with hooves of steel and eyes of flame.

You scared my pants off!

Alexander Hamilton, widely reputed to be the most eloquent man in the United States of America, had, for the first time in his life, been rendered speechless.

They gaped as if they'd never seen a ridiculously handsome bleeding man in a turquoise waistcoat fall through a rubbish hole and then save himself with a grappling hook before. What DID they do for fun in New Eden?