Quotes About Astonishment

quoting Tacitus's epigram "Omne ignotum pro magnifico"—everything unknown is wonderful

Vanessa's eyes widened as Grandma slammed the door.

Kendra felt stunned. She had been cuddling and flirting with the son of the Fairy Queen?

How totally unexpected," he declared, then proceeded to faint from blood loss.

Was…was that a cow?

But even a ninety-year-old blind priest would stop and stare at this woman. If

Shallan had not expected Jasnah Kholin to be so beautiful

Disappointment takes a toll on us and our relationships. It requires considerable emotional bandwidth. Researcher Eliane Sommerfeld explains that we come away from the experience of disappointment feeling bad about ourselves and the other person. Our negativity is tinged with astonishment and surprise, and, at the same time we're trying to forgive, we're concealing emotions. We're trying to think positively and urging ourselves to move on. It's exhausting.

It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.

He was lost in wonder at the mystery of things.

Well, fuck a duck.

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

the great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open...

There is great work to be done, and the women will lead us. So I say, Astonish us with your genius. Inspire us with your creation. Work with one another. Endure the tribulations.

Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body.

The Emrys! The Emrys is here!' Merlin shook his head in astonishment. 'Has it come to this?' he wondered. 'Even small children know me by sight.

Son of a bitch! You're Steve Allen!

Open them? Open them! My God, Felicia," he said, wrapping his right arm around the waist of the curly-haired waitress, "I think Professor Taylor has cracked the code!

Yes, boys and girls, today's near-death experience was brought to you by the number eight and the letters WTF!

I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.

As a session player for so many years, I have found myself in rooms looking around going, 'Is this for real?'

The mysteries of germination and flowering and fruiting engaged me from an early age, and the fact that by planting and working an ordinary patch of dirt you could in a few months' time harvest things of taste and value was, for me, nature's most enduring astonishment.

His mouth had already been hanging open, but it managed to hang open further as the tiny close-set peepers crowding his nose opened with the wide-eyed innocence of a newborn suffering its first gas pain.

What? Even after my intercession?