Quotes About Astonishment

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

Governments assuming gigantic proportions end by absorbing half of all the revenues. The people are astonished that while marvelous labor-saving inventions, destined to infinitely multiply productions, are ever increasing in number, they are obliged to toil on as painfully as ever, and remain as poor as before.

Norm Brodsky, for one, had what he called his knock-your-socks-off policy. When there was an opportunity to reward people, he wanted the reward to take their breath away, which meant doing what they didn't expect when they didn't expect it.

You're kidding, right?" Broome couldn't have looked more incredulous without plastic surgery. "Let me get this straight: Ray Levine told you that he showed up after you saw Stewart Green lying there.

I told her about my visit to the Plan B Go-Go Lounge. The waitress came and brought our food, but neither one of us noticed. When I finished, Ema said, "I won't even bother with the 'whoa.' This is beyond whoa. It's like whoa on steroids. It's like whoa raised to the tenth power." The

My Lord, Aunt Stephanie, you almost gave me a heart attack!

Everything just blows me away.

Every day the average person will witness six miracles. But it isn't that we don't believe in miracles—we just don't believe that miracles are miracles. There are so many miracles all around us.

Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate.

If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.

On the first training session Pogba had with Juventus, the players were laughing. We were not laughing for any other reason than we were just in total disbelief that this player with so much obvious ability was able to leave the club the size of Manchester United for free - and I think Juventus are still laughing.

Grace's eyes bigger than DVD's, Rachel's mouth hanging open so wide you could reach right in and perform a tonsillectomy.

For the first time in my life I had received an assurance that I had been of use to someone on this earth, and my astonishment at the thought that I, a commonplace, unsophisticated young officer, should really have the power to make someone else so happy knew no bounds.

I could do nothing but marvel at this new girlish creature, who seemed more childish than ever in her joy, yet more womanly in her beauty. She noticed my faint astonishment and accepted it as a gift.

As revealed by physics, the truth is so remarkable, so amazing!

I'm a little bit in shock, to tell you the truth.

he lifted his eyes. The eternal kind went out of his shoulder. He opened his mouth and closed it again, speechless with outrage, joy, and wonder. Then he burst into tears.

He was astonished at the course that life could take, at the way things that had seemed once to concern him so much--indeed to revolve around him--could turn out to have nothing to do with him at all.

Smoke had left the eye sockets of houses with black eyebrows of astonishment. Cats

Are you shitting me?" Chu cried, fully turned in his seat now. "Are you fucking shitting me?

His willingness to throw open a window on the American financial world, and to show people what it has become, still takes my breath away.

When I first heard that a comet was going to hit Jupiter, my reaction was, 'Eh. So what? Jupiter's huge. Comets are small. And so when I saw the first impact site and it was huge and dark, I was flabbergasted.

When I go to a movie, I'm always thrilled if I've seen an actor do something and I didn't realize until the end of the movie that that was that person. I love that.

At this point, a spaceship could land on Main Street and Elvis could saunter out singing "Love Me Tender," and I wouldn't be surprised