Quotes About Astonishment

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonderful.

Twenty million bucks?" he repeated, as if dumbfounded.

espléndida, tan alta y tan larga que el público aguantó la respiración sin dar crédito a lo que veían sus ojos.

As Mary's veil and black outer garments were removed, stifled cries of shock and astonishment reverberated around the hall.

him dumfounded as he chanted the Gregorian

Ni siquiera una sorpresa

We would be destroying a habitable world," Sloane said, at once repulsed and amazed.

Then felt I like like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Like stout Cortes when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific-and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise Silent upon a peak in Darien

Finny always said what he happened to be thinking, and if this stunned people then he was surprised.

I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don't know if God even exists, although I confess that I sometimes find myself praying in times of great fear, or despair, or astonishment at a display of unexpected beauty.

If we did all the things we were capable of doing," he once said, "we would literally astound ourselves.

HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.

It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.

The marvelous thing about lack of planning is that failure comes as a complete and utter surprise.

The horse's muscular legs ended in flesh, the equally muscular torso of a man. I stared—at that impossible suture of horse and human, where smooth skin became a gleaming brown coat.

God, Brigham. You never told me you were a goddamn goddess.

Fluke me, Murdstone.

As I put together the wolf was Jeffrey, I gasped. "Holy crap. You so can totally lick your own butt!

As she slowly came to, the princess, fascinated, gazed at the card, and this time her haggard eyes grew wide with astonishment. For upon the card, which until now had appeared immaculately white, letters were gradually becoming visible, and the princess read: "Fan-tô-mas!

Then it would begin to seem unintelligible, as the thoughts of a former existence must be to a reincarnate spirit; the subject of my book would separate itself from me, leaving me free to choose whether I would form part of it or no; and at the same time my sight would return and I would be astonished to find myself in a state of darkness, pleasant and restful enough for the eyes, and even more, perhaps, for my mind, to which it appeared incomprehensible, without a cause, a matter dark indeed.

What!" Schiffer blurted, not a question. Lucas had been watching Carver and Dannon again, and again, their eyes were blank; if they'd been lizards, Lucas thought, a nictitating membrane might have dropped slowly across them.

You are, at least to a certain approximation, human. You're not supposed to be here.

What the hell?" she asked, after a moment. "Lovely," Wilson said, looking at the display. "And by 'lovely,' I mean 'Oh, crap.

They looked at one another, amazed. This thing they had never really believed in was coming true.