Astonishment Quotations

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.

I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.

I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.

The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.

That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.

I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.

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

I am all astonishment.

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

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

To my utter astonishment I saw an airship descending over my cow lot. It was occupied by six of the strangest beings I ever saw. They were jabbering together, but we could not understand a word they said...

We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us.

She had imagined Jace leaping from the bed in astonishment and gasping something like "Egad!" This didn't happen-largely, she suspected, because Jace had seen much stranger things in his life, and also because nobody used the word "Egad!" anymore. His eyes widened, though.

The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.

Rome is an astonishment!

The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.

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

He produced a handkerchief—crisply folded—and handed it to her. She took it with silent astonishment. She’d never before known anyone who carried a handkerchief.

In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

Live in a perpetual great astonishment.

Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.

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

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.

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.

I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living.

When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself

At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to check me; he said the whole idea was so disgusting that he could not entertain it for a moment.

A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.

Astonishment is the proper response to reality.

Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before.

The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles, confounding all our efforts to comprehend it, is the earth.

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

I can still recall vividly how Freud said to me, "My dear Jung, promise me never to abandon the sexual theory. That is the most essential thing of all. You see, we must make a dogma of it, an unshakable bulwark" ... In some astonishment I asked him, "A bulwark-against what?" To which he replied, "Against the black tide of mud"-and here he hesitated for a moment, then added of occultism.

Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.

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

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

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

One day, to everyone’s astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up.

This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and awe- - that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity.

I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.