Top 35 Astonishes Quotes
#2. Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight ...
Madame De Stael
#4. Everything that astonished me when I was young astonishes me even more today. The time will never come for me when there are no more discoveries to make. Every morning the world is as new again and I will not cease to flower except through death.
Colette
#5. And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#6. The writers on my team and the producers and executive producer should be called talent. We anchor four hours on Saturday and three on Sunday. How they do that astonishes me.
Poppy Harlow
#7. It astonishes me already when I compare my condition today with what it was a month ago. Before that I knew well enough one could fracture one's legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too ...
Vincent Van Gogh
#8. I often think how celebrated I am. / It is difficult not to think how celebrated I am. / And if I think how celebrated I am / They know who know that I am new / That is I knew I know how celebrated I am / And after all it astonishes even me.
Gertrude Stein
#9. One thing that continually astonishes me is the degree to which we're influenced by sheer convenience. The amount of effort, time, or decision making required by an action has a huge influence on habit formation.
Gretchen Rubin
#10. This is a thing which astonishes me no end, but affects you not.
Jack Kerouac
#11. But what most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable multitude of small ones.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#12. When a man's knowledge is deep, he speaks well of an enemy. Instead of seeking revenge, he extends unexpected generosity. He turns insult into humor, ... and astonishes his adversary who finds no reason not to trust him.
Baltasar Gracian
#13. The dandelion's pallid tube
Astonishes the grass,
And winter instantly becomes
An infinite alas.
Emily Dickinson
#15. Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
Zora Neale Hurston
#16. The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.
Louisa May Alcott
#17. What astonishes us most is to observe that everyone is not astonished at his own weakness.
Blaise Pascal
#18. Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one of the purest, most crystal-clear in the entire history of chess, astonishes one with his logic.
Garry Kasparov
#19. It is the imperfect that astonishes and attracts us.
Paulo Coelho
#20. The psychopath discards his ex-lovers with a degree of vitriol and hatred that astonishes his victims and exceeds any boundaries of normality.
Claudia Moscovici
#21. The beautiful result often astonishes us when our mind becomes oblivious to the work done with our heart.
Anuj
#22. I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
#23. I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#24. What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave more wickedly than it obviously does.
Morton Irving Seiden
#25. Christianity is not "Jesus is our example." Christianity is "Jesus is our substitute."
Tullian Tchividjian
#26. I'm William, but you can call me Sexy. Everyone does.
Gena Showalter
#27. Raised a bite of eggs in a mock toast. That's my brother. He may be an asshole but he's an asshole with flare.
Adrienne Wilder
#28. [H]as the CDC ever published a story about the dangers of catching diseases when you sleep with illegal aliens?
Rush Limbaugh
#29. One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.
Plato
#30. Being known is really fun, extremely strange, and not very important. This
Mindy Kaling
#31. Is global warming new? I don't know. When I was young I remember the sun being hot.
Dennis Miller
#32. Never assume anything, expect the unexpected, be ready for everything all the time. And
Gary Paulsen
#33. Experience each moment as if it were the first sensation of its kind ever. Bring childlike interest and curiosity to your present-time experience.
Noah Levine
#34. That's what you want: you want projects that you fall in love with. I don't think you pick your projects; you fall in love with them.
Morten Tyldum
#35. A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation ...
Robert Green Ingersoll
