Quotes About Astonishment

Creation moves and astonishes if you let it. When I realize how unlikely it is that anything at all should live on this world spun together from dust and hot gases, that creatures of almost infinite variety should at night look up at the stars, I know that it's all more fragile than it appears, and I think maybe the only thing that keeps the Earth alive and turning is our love for it.

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over every day, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and deeply affecting that the heart is nearly stilled by astonishment.

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over every day, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and deeply affecting that the heart is nearly stilled by astonishment. From Vegas, they hauled the Airstream north on

She's not seen it a tenth this bright on any previous night.

Twelve dead?" I said. "Jesus.

People surprise you sometimes.

He blinked , and his eyes moved at last from her face, slowly taking in her appearance, and- with what seemed to her a new and horrified awareness- her height. My God, he croaked. You're huge.

What, she's taken the hairs off her honeypot?" he said, horrified into uncharacteristic vulgarity.

Jesus H. Christ!" I exclaimed. I felt it again, unbelieving, but there it was. "You always said your head was solid bone, and I'll be damned if you weren't right. She shot you point-blank, and the bloody ball bounced off your skull!" Jamie

Used as he was to general approbation of his person, he was amused to discover that his vanity was mildly affronted at her plain astonishment that such an insignificant sort as himself should be brother to the darkly dramatic Edgar DeVane. (Haunted Soldier)

You didn't say there was a stone circle," I said. I felt faint, and not only from the heat and damp.

chin—"and there it was. I near beshit myself.

Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ.

I was so surprised, astonished, when I lost my mind, because I didn't think that I ever would. I assumed I would always be just fine.

I'll be at the airport, and people will say, 'Mantis!' and I'm like, 'Wait! How do you know I'm here?' It's just crazy.

Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.

Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfigurations," said Ron, to general astonishment.

Honestly, Im having trouble with the fact that youre having difficulty believing us. You are the only one in the room levitating.

Holy !@#$%!" Coke exclaimed.

His father was numbed with astonishment. "Mighty little do I know about God," he finally replied. "[But] what I do know about God changes my life.

Surprise is an emotion we feel when we encounter the unexpected

It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.

Jeez," said Beauvoir. "The Inquisition. I didn't expect that." "No one does," said Gamache.

Everyone in the farmyard was staring at Gamache with open astonishment, including the donkeys. But human behavior often astonished them.