Quotes About Astonishment

If their purpose and actions are those of mortal men, they will fail. But if it is from God, how can you possibly stop them? You will only find yourselves fighting against our Lord Jehovah!" To Ezra's astonishment, the entire Council around the head table looked subdued.

My goal is to get people to really believe that the impossible is real, and not that I'm responsible for it. I want them to believe that they're having the most unusual, magical and bizarre days of their lives.

Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.

I say this to everybody: 'Watters World' makes you laugh, and then 'Watters World' makes you cry, because it is shocking, and even I myself am still shocked at some of the answers when I go out.

I stood there amazed. I found it all hard to believe, that I, Des Nilsen, had actually done all that.

They, astounded at the flash of the armor, and the swiftness of the charge, and attacked by showers of arrows and missiles, half naked as they were, never stopped to resist but gave way.

People never cease to amaze me.

I went to a football game, and people were shouting my dad's name, and I was like, 'What? Oh my God.'

And I remember walking in and there was this long, long table with everyone's name cards. I got there really early. The name card on my left said, 'Gillian Anderson,' and to my right was 'Josh O'Connor,' then opposite me was 'Olivia Colman.' I think I must have a picture on my phone of the table because my mind was just blown.

I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

Si yo hubiera leído todo esto en un libro, Henry, creo que me hubiera echado a llorar. Sin embargo, ahora que me ha ocurrido a mi realmente, parece demasiado asombroso para derramar lágrimas.

Something that might have been a very hard and knobbly leg of mutton smote Lord Emsworth violently behind the ear:the sun was turned off at the main: the stars came out, many of them of a singular brightness.

The general effect was rather as if I had swallowed six-pennorth of dynamite and somebody touched it off inside me.

Just when I thought my day couldnt get any worse, I saw the dead guy next to my locker.

ohmygod. did all hell just freeze over?

ohmygoodNESS!

The thought of being engaged to a girl who talked openly about fairies being born because stars blew their noses, or whatever it was, frankly appalled me.

Good God, Clarence! You look like a bereaved tapeworm.

He sat looking at it with his eyes protruding in the manner popularized by snails, looking like something stuffed by a taxidermist who had learned his job from a correspondence course and had only got as far as lesson three.

I shuttered from hairdo to shoe-sole

i gave a start as if goosed from behind

Wait till you see her. Sort of woman who makes you feel that your hands are the color of a frightful tomato and the size of a billiard table, if you know what I mean.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not melt in one's bath.

I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me, I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.