Quotes About Astonishment

Like most ministers, Peter was not the best judge of his own sermons. Almost invariably when he thought he had written one of his best, the rest of us did not rate it so highly. And, when on Saturday night he was bemoaning a terrible sermon, he could be pretty sure his congregation would think it terrific. How other people rated his sermons was a constant source of astonishment to him. That's what keeps me humble, he often said.

If the hand of God had come down from heaven and smacked him dead, James could not have been more surprised. He waited, certain he had misunderstood.

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

A ram comes always as an astonishment. Do you know what a ram is, Benjamin? R-A-M. A random act of menschlichkeit.

He looked like he'd just seen the Ghost of You Better Shut Your Mouth...

You have a vampire living in your basement, and you're stunned by a talking cat?

For a moment they all looked at Dermot incredulously, as if he'd just announced he was going to birth a kangaroo.

When I arrived at Barcelona and saw Messi's face, and later Luis Suarez, I felt like it was a videogame.

I met Michael Jordan on a golf course! I don't even know what to say. I'm still freaked out that I met him.

Never in a million years did I think 'Game of Thrones' was going to take off like it did.

So this is America. They must be out of their minds.

The ordered swirl of houses and streets, from this high angle, sprang at her now with the same unexpected, astonishing clarity as the circuit card had.

Listen to. To hear with thoughtful attention. To hold something close, to attend to it, to be astonished by it, to devote your life to its mysteries, to name it precisely, to wonder how it comes to be. To stay awake to it. To move closer to the wild and twittering night. To let it cover you and keep you safe. To me, listening is starting to sound a lot like love.

May gasped, wavered on her feet for a moment, then settled a wistful gaze on Cass's hair. "Oh my, ye have a lot, don't ye?" And her fingers began to twitch. Cook

I watched, baffled, as Will Speckman floated like an angel, drifting down to the marina dock a hundred yards away. My mind suggested all kinds of crazy answers. The Trinity can fly. Will Speckman is actually a bird. Gravity has taken the night off.

cuando veía actuar a uno de sus «colegas», estaba en la misma situación que un niño de cinco años: le parecía magia.

we should not be amazed that God ordered the death of the Canaanites, but rather we should stand in amazement that he lets anyone live.

You win this game. I can't guess that shit. I thought I could name that shit in three notes, maybe less. But I'm baffled. Boggled. Blown away.

The best day of my life was one I never even saw coming

Last days, last things, loom on: I write / to astonish myself. So much for all / plain speaking...

I stared at her, speechless. There were so many things wrong with what she said that my brain experienced a momentary shutdown.

I could scarcely believe what I saw and I had the sense as in a nightmare of being involved in something both wildly improbable and relentlessly inevitable. This had to happen. Yet how could it have happened?

Kev shuddered. This was crazy, but there it was; his name, spelt by an insect... — Boab? Is that really you? Fuckin hell! Eh, buzz twice fir aye, once fir naw. Two buzzes. — Did eh, what's his name, did God dae this? Two buzzes. — Whit the fuck ur ye gaunny dae? Frantic buzzing. — Sorry Boab... kin ah git ye anything? Scran, likesay?

a las mil maravillas.