Quotes About Astonishment

You look like you've swallowed a live fish, and you're not certain if you're enjoying the experience.

A short story works to remind us that if we are not sometimes baffled and amazed and undone by the world around us, rendered speechless and stunned, perhaps we are not paying close enough attention.

A limerick by Ronald Knox, with a reply, sets forth Berkeley's theory of material objects: There was a young man who said, "God Must think it exceedingly odd If he finds that this tree Continues to be When there's no one about in the Quad." REPLY Dear Sir: Your astonishment's odd: I am always about in the Quad. And that's why the tree Will continue to be, Since observed by Yours faithfully, GOD

As a result, they were all astounded and gave glory to God, saying, "We have never seen anything like this!" Mark 2:12

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.

It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.

I marvel at how good I was before I met him, how I lived molded to the smallest space possible, my days the size of little beads that passed without passion through my fingers. So few people know what they're capable of. At forty-two I'd never done anything that took my own breath away, and I suppose now that was part of the problem - my chronic inability to astonish myself.

Ana, I don't doubt you should give yourself to motherhood. I only question what it is you're meant to mother. For two days and nights I pondered her words, so vast and inscrutable. For a woman to birth something other than children and then mother it with the same sense of purpose, attention, and care came as an astonishment, even to me.

For a woman to birth something other than children and then mother it with the same sense of purpose, attention and care came as an astonishment, even to me.

and I suppose now that was part of the problem—my chronic inability to astonish myself.

The light around your body paled, there was a washed translucence in the air and then—the astonishment of your last breath brushed my face.

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them." —Leo Rosten

Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.

He shut his mouth again and assumed a supercilious expression; this he wore for the remainder of the night, as if he regularly attended houses where young ladies were raised from the dead and considered this particular example to have been, upon the whole, a rather dull affair.

The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.

I think the world is dying because we were dead to its astonishments pretty much. It'll be around but it will become less and less until it's finally compatible with our feelings for it.

His badness thrilled and amazed me.

La traición y el asesinato van siempre juntos, como dos diablos unidos en un yugo que por el mismo fin trabajan tan groseramente por interés natural que la imaginación no se asombra ante ellos. Pero a ti, contra todo decoro, te estaba reservado, provocar asombro, al tiempo que traición y asesinato. Sea cual fuere el diablo que ha obrado sobre ti, se ha ganado fama de excelente en el Infierno.

Oh, my goodness gracious! I've been bamboozled! -Jason Todd

I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor.

she was looking at him as if he'd just dropped fully formed from the sky.

Holy Necrophilia, Batman

One of the strangest phenomena of our time, and one that will probably be a matter of astonishment to our decedents, is that doctrine which is founded upon this triple hypothesis: the radical passiveness of mankind, -the omnipotence of the law, -the infallibility of the legislature: this is the sacred symbol of the party that proclaims itself exclusively democratic.