Astonishment Quotes

People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body.

The Emrys! The Emrys is here!' Merlin shook his head in astonishment. 'Has it come to this?' he wondered. 'Even small children know me by sight.

The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential.

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment.

Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.

That's an astonishment that we're waiting to find out what the [Donald Trump] policy is, that was the central plank, the central rationale for his candidacy.

Frederick Buechner brings the reader to his knees, sometimes in laughter, sometimes in an astonishment very close to prayer, and at the best of times in a combination of both.

Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. 'There were stars,' He said. 'They burned my eyes.’ ...from a Himmel street window, he wrote, the stars set fire to my eyes.

Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth something strange and terrible to fill up our discourse and our astonishment.

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

To my astonishment, when Wolf Hall came out, people asked if I made it up - [Thomas More] burning of heretics. It was well documented. And he was proud of it! The Brits love lost causes.

Rome is an astonishment!

Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.

There is that unique moment when one confronts something new and astonishment begins.

Witness each moment in astounded jubilation. Take every holy breath in gratitude. Rejoice in life!

When the unexpected meets with the unprepared, over there we find the greatest astonishments!

Dandies, who – as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe, that astonishment can ever be a proper feeling for the human mind.

It felt so amazing to be alive I could never think of anything else.

A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart—a heart that is astonished at grace.

Your total intelligence knows how to accomplish astounding feats. You just need a clear objective. Get clear. You will surprise yourself!