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Quotes About Astonishment

Hietanen ärtyi myöskin: – Ei jumalaut! Mää en millään lakkaa ihmettelemäst millai mies pitä kaiken romun takanans. Kuin helvetin taval sitä voi oikein rakasta rätejä ja lumpui. Jokku rakastava nätei flikoi, ja sen mää kyl ymmärrän, mut kuin helvetin taval? Ei, mää olen mahdottoman hämmästynyt. Mää ihmettelen oikein kauhiast tämmöst ja olen niinkun klavul päähä lyöty.
~ Unknown
Mää olen ahven. Mää olen hiilest tehty ahven… Mää ihmettelen kauhiast.
~ Unknown
A mesma verdade que existe na verdade. Se consome pelo uso. Ou se reforça pela ausência. Ou nem coisa nem outra. O mistério permanece e nos espanta sempre.
~ Unknown
To a humble mind nothing is more astonishing than to hear its own excellence.
~ Peter Kreeft
Amazed, Fat said, She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth? Only to monsters, Dr. Stone said.
~ Philip K. Dick
Hallelujah," Rybys said. "What?" he
~ Philip K. Dick
Lyra had never seen such a sight, never heard such a bellow; it was like a mountain laughing.
~ Philip Pullman
She had never dreamed of what it would feel like to love someone so much; of all the things that had astonished her in her adventures, that was what astonished her the most. She thought the tenderness it left in her heart was like a bruise that would never go away, but she would cherish it for ever.
~ Philip Pullman
Can you imagine my astonishment, in turn, at learning that part of my own nature was female, and bird-formed, and beautiful?
~ Philip Pullman
Then she felt dizzy. This was all impossible, and it was all happening.
~ Philip Pullman
It was the most dangerous thing she had ever said. She could see quite clearly that only his astonishment prevented him from killing her at once.
~ Philip Pullman
How can this be happening in America? How can people like these be in charge of our country? If I didn't see it with my own eyes, I'd think I was having a hallucination.
~ Philip Roth
Now the screams were awful to hear as men burned like candles all along the deck. Black smoke billowed over the sea. Argurios could not believe what he was watching. At least fifty helpless men were dying in agony. One man managed to free himself and leap into the sea. Amazingly, when he surfaced the flames were still consuming him. All along the beach there was silence as the stunned crowd watched the magical fires burning the galley and it's crew.
~ David Gemmell
i am so freaked out, you could pull a clown out of my ass and i wouldn't be at all surprised.
~ David Levithan
Me asombra lo aleatorio, lo cómico y la fe que nos une a todos y nos hace seguir adelante.
~ David Levithan
And perhaps the sun, in search of novelty, will rise in the west.
~ David Mamet
It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician—but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment that he commits the slightest error that reveals his trickery. Those in the audience are embarrassed to have been so easily astonished, and they blame the performer for their gullibility.
~ Dean Koontz
And the Milky Way, like a great aurora, flowed through his body to stand at the edges of the earth. There was a quiet, chilly loneliness in it, and a sort of voluptuous astonishment.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
twenty-foot-square, furious splash as he hooked himself. I sat spellbound. I
~ Zane Grey
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Sometimes I amaze even myself.
~ Erich Segal
Sometimes all you can do is sit back and be amazed.
~ Ian McElhinney
creyó sentir algo como respiración tras ella. Volvióse, y vió a los cuatro idiotas, con los hombros pegados uno a otro, mirando estupefactos la operación. Rojo… rojo…
~ Horacio Quiroga
as my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold - everywhere the glint of gold. For the moment - an eternity it must have seemed to the others standing by - I was struck dumb with amazement, and when Lord Carnarvon, unable to stand the suspense any longer, inquired anxiously, 'Can you see anything?' it was all I could do to get out the words, 'Yes, wonderful things.
~ Howard Carter