I once heard a spiritual man say that he was not so much astonished at the things done by a soul in mortal sin as at the things not done by it. May God, in his mercy, deliver us from such great evil, for there is nothing in the whole of our lives that so thoroughly deserves to be called evil as this, since it brings endless and eternal evils in its train.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
I've been astonished how often, when I convince a writer to tell a story more straightforwardly and to tell it more simply and directly, it turns out that this author is great and the story is wonderful.
In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.
If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.
In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have been astonished by how few people -- people who supposedly want to write -- read books, and if they read them, how little they examine them.
Tyrion Lannister could not have been more astonished if Aegon the Conqueror himself had burst into the room, riding on a dragon and juggling lemon pies.
I'm continually astonished with myself how different people bring out things in me that I never knew I had inside me. Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete.
He said he would come in,' the White Queen went on, `because he was looking for a hippopotamus. Now, as it happened, there wasn't such a thing in the house, that morning. ' Is there generally?' Alice asked in an astonished tone. Well, only on Thursdays,' said the Queen.
Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.
Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.
Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.
I am astonished and surprised that someone could consider making a film about me without talking to me about it.
Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world
I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.
Wordlessly I looked back at him, astonished that a kiss on the palm could be so intimate.
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
In these anxious times many of us are less astonished that reason is ever suspended than that it should ever prevail, even during the briefest of intervals.
