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Every single day I'm shocked.
I am more lost in wonder than ever.Lost-- John Huston
I had of course met with incredulity..., but seldom with a will to incredulity.
Wonder , or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
Surprise comes from defying expectations.
Give me wonder, baby.
Flash.
Give me amazement.
Flash.
Everything is surprising, rightly seen.
Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.
Love amazes, but it does not surprise.
I was surprised, therefore, when
Don't tell me your speechless, princess.
The horse, it must be said, was quite surprised.
As a professional journalist, I've been interviewing people for almost thirty years. And the one thing I've learned from all those interviews is that I am always going to be surprised.
In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.
I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.
I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.
We live in a bewildering world.
doing with the puzzled
Trade your cleverness for bewilderment.
Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.
Amazement and wonder signify that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed.
He turned away for a moment, smacked by the beauty of complete surprise.
I'm shocked at being recognized.
I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
He was flabbergasted. That was the best word. His flabber had been thoroughly gasted.
My mind is boggled,
I'm not disappointed - just disappointed.
Expect to wonder to find wonder.
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete.
I stood dumfounded, founded in dumbness.
I may be surprised. But I don't think I will be.
Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.
I've never been surprised by God's judgment, but I'm still stunned by His grace.
He was reading. I was struck dumb with amazement.
I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.
I am very, very incredulous about what I see. I can't throw caveats in. I don't make blanket statements.
The only appropriate state of mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of heart is joy.
There are very few things that surprise me.
I surprised myself, that I was in the tissue of the character enough, that I could actually come up with something that I didn't actually feel or didn't believe.
She was not stunned, the way I was. In some strange way she was gleeful, as if this was what she had been expecting for some time and now she'd been proven right.
...and that's the blank unholy suprise of it.
A pretty sight; it would have surprised me, if my capacity for surprise wasn't flattened.
We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.
I was neither glad nor unhappy to see her, but maybe that's what shock does, because I was surprised, that I will say.
I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
It always astonishes me when anybody does anything
I enjoy being surprised.
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.
It's amazing how people can surprise you.
The man who ceases to be astonished is hollow, possessed of an extinguished heart.
If you can disappoint yourself as much as you love yourself and you still manage to disappoint yourself then why are you shocked when other people that you love disappoint you.
I have heard the word 'stunning' used to describe women, but this was the first time I had actually been stunned by one.
There was awe, and there was also incredulity - sheer disbelief that the dead Moon, of all worlds, could have sprung this fantastic surprise.
No one said a word for some time. Everyone stared at Hadrian in wonder, including Albert, whose mouth hung agape.
It was the duchess who finally found words to sum up their collective thoughts. "Well, aren't you just an astonishment topped with surprises!
I never cease to amaze myself. And I say this humbly
Live in a perpetual great astonishment.
Who can be astonished at anything, when he has once been astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one has seen the Saviour?
Are you wowed?" Her pause is debilitating.
"Yes," she says a little breathlessly. "I'm wowed.
Surely people should eventually cease to be surprised at anything? And yet they continue to be.
That goal surprised most people, least of all myself
I asked myself at the time: how is it that she is not astonished at herself, that she keeps her mouth closed, and expresses nothing of any wonderment?
Rubbing absently at my temple, I do declare this woman leaves me flabbergasted and tongue tied.
'Unbelievable' is the stupidest word in the dictionary.
How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
What amazes me the most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.
I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with a teapot in my hand on every dramatic occasion.
I stand astonished at my own moderation
I felt dichotomously dismayed and dazedly giddy by the prospect.
Only those who are aware of God's wrath are amazed by God's grace.
When you stop being surprised, you've stopped living.
How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.
The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.
We nothing know, but what is marvellous; Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
I love to be surprised.
I don't know why, but his reaction disappoints me.
I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
God's unique capacity is too surprising to surprise.
We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.
I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.
A day doesn't go by where I don't get surprised by something.
Fortunately, I was supposed to look confused and disoriented because, God, I felt that way.
Stark raving mad.
The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.
It is unbelievable.
She stared at him, horrified. And thrilled. And horrified at being thrilled.
It is almost a sadness to my soul that men should be astonished and surprised at an ordinary, tangible evidence of the power of God.
I am Joe's Complete Lack of Surprise.
I am no longer surprise by situation. I only pray for the strength of endurance.
Do not be astonished at anything, even happiness.
We are not amused.
dazzled by the sheer essence of the whole,
I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness.
I am awestruck that life can give us such breathtaking beauty.
I felt shocked and then saddened. life does this to you sometimes - leads you up a path and then drops you in the shit, to mix a metaphor.
Almost always, it's the unexpected that delights us, that takes us by the throat and gives us a good shaking, leaving us gaping in wonder.
Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.
Blind and naked as an unearthed mole, uncomprehending.