Quotes About Astonishment

I was shocked and astonished when a daring little girl -- a cousin I think -- having waited under a group of trees in the avenue, where she knew [my grandfather] would pass near four o'clock on the way to his dinner, said to him, 'If I were you and you were a little girl, I would give you a doll.

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

Russell didn't reply. He was dumbstruck by

the fact that he'd never before seen her in the evening. He was just short of being astounded that she could exist at this hour. He must have been the type who thought that beauty gets put in a box at night. But it couldn't be true, no, because there she was, facing him.

L'écriture automatique, c'est lorsque votre bras et votre main sont guidées par une autre force, et bien souvent personne n'est plus étonné de ce qui est écrit que la personne qui écrit.

N'est-ce pas ce qui est si beau dans la vie, le fait que nous ayons parfois l'occasion d'être stupéfaits ?

If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.

I see water and buildings ... Oh my God! Oh my God.

I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

Lord save us, first you have a heart, now you have a god? Will wonders never cease?

With that, he looked over his shoulder. Blay's breath shot out of his lungs. "Oh... my God," he whispered.

She shrieked. "Nora! What happened to the banister!" Good thing she hadn't seen her bedroom yet.

Do not be astonished at anything, even happiness.

Shut the front door!" Jenna exclaimed.Andrew disappeared into the foyer, and when he returned, his eyebrows were furrowed in confusion. "The door is shut?

I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of the Perpetual Astonishment

Nick's eyes widened as a total state of befuddled huh possessed him. Was he in theTwilight Zone?

It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world.

We live at the edge of the miraculous.

You know you are old when you've lost your marvels.

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

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You have got to be kidding me.