Quotes About Astonishment

I am grateful for any following and am always surprised by it!

I get a lot of recognition for my voice. That always surprises me.

I don't know why it surprises people that I surprise them.

Dickens is always full of surprises.

Why, I'll be a monkey's uncle. I'll be a snake's daddy. I'll be a mickey finn at a woman's-club lunch.

We inhabit, in ordinary daylight, a future that was unimaginably dark a few decades ago, when people found the end of the world easier to envision than the impending changes in everyday roles, thoughts, practices that not even the wildest science fiction anticipated. Perhaps we should not have adjusted to it so easily. It would be better if we were astonished every day.

We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.

We are survival machines-robot vehicles blindly programmer to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment. Though I have known it for years, I never seem to get fully used to it.

Shocked as if I had bitten on a firecracker...

Human beings seem framed to pose problems for themselves that they cannot solve, pit themselves against the dark world of uncreated reality, and find that living with such unknowing is a source of astonishment and delight.

Good God! What in the hell was that noise?" The man in front of them turned in his seat. "That's what I've been asking myself this half hour and then some

I noticed the look of astonishment pass between Evelyn and Tamara and couldn't resist throwing them a triumphant look. The meek mouse they thought they were dealing with had grown sharp teeth. And she would use them if she had to

A quite specific astonishment stands at the beginning of every theological perception, inquiry, and thought.

I was still getting my head round the fact that carrot juice existed

Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder!

I hadn't gotten far when I ran into Mason. Good God. Men everywhere.

Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.

I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor.

My reaction to your news is delighted astonishment that Lanark has been judged more popular than a book by Ian Rankin, and only regret that this wonderful honour had no money attached to it!

Never ever doubt in magic.

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.

What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave more wickedly than it obviously does.

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

It is almost a sadness to my soul that men should be astonished and surprised at an ordinary, tangible evidence of the power of God.