Top 41 Astound Quotes
#1. Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.
George V. Higgins
#2. Eve, I know this continues to astound and baffle you, but I actually like to socialize."
"I know. If it wasn't for that, you'd be perfect.
J.D. Robb
#3. If you learn to Master Procrastination, it would astound you as to how much you are able to accomplish.
Sheldon D. Newton
#4. Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
Mark Twain
#5. If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas A. Edison
#6. When women's true history shall have been written, her part in the upbuilding of this nation will astound the world.
Abigail Scott Duniway
#7. Strong as it looks at the outset, State-agency perpetually disappoints every one. Puny as are its first stages, private efforts daily achieve results that astound the world.
Herbert Spencer
#8. Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask 'Why?' ceaselessly.
John C. Maxwell
#9. If everyone did what they were capable of, they would astound themselves!
Marco Robinson
#10. The wildness of this life grows & grows & continues to astound me with how large it is, how little I know of it.
Topaz Winters
#11. Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me.
Markus Zusak
#12. You astound me, Ava. I've never met a girl who would order what you just did in front of a guy."
"You mean lunch?
Nicole Gulla
#13. Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.
Jose Saramago
#14. Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.
Jules Verne
#15. Keyboardists whose chief asset is mere technique ... more often than not astound us with their prowess without ever touching our sensibilities. They overwhelm our hearing without satisfying it and stun the mind without moving it.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
#16. It would probably astound each of us beyond measure to be let into his neighbors mind and to find how different the scenery was there from that of his own.
William James
#17. Magic : when you create something from the materials around you to astound and make the audience say "Wow." Magic happens on mundane days. It happens when you least expect it. It brings a spark to our drab and monotonous days.
Avijeet Das
#18. If we did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." - Thomas Edison
Brian P. Moran
#19. Succeed! It has been done, and with a stupidity that can astound the most experienced.
Donald Barthelme
#20. When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.
Mark Twain
#21. It never ceased to astound me the people who found themselves on the
streets, homeless, abused. A fucked up life was not discriminatory. Young, old, rich, poor, plain or beautiful, bad shit could happen to anyone. I hated that my world was full of women who had been harmed by men.
Kirsty Dallas
#22. Spirituality lies not in the power to heal others, to perform miracles, or to astound the world with our wisdom, but in the ability to endure with right attitude whatever crosses we have to face in our daily lives, and thus to rise above them.
Daya Mata
#23. Do what's right and you'll please some of the people and astound the rest.
Ronald Reagan
#24. But when the secrets of all hearts shall be made known, their virtues will astound us in far greater degree.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#25. The entire function of man is to survive. The outermost limit of endeavour is creative work. Anything less is too close to simple survival until death happens along. So I am engaged in
striving to maintain equilibrium sufficient to at least realize survival in a way to astound the gods.
L. Ron Hubbard
#27. And also I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.
Benazir Bhutto
#28. We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility.
David Christian
#29. His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I warrant that there are more sound ones than sorry, for he is quick at his work and a trifle dim in the eye.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#30. The doughnut was definitely looking at him. Hello, sailor, it seemed to be saying.
Tom Holt
#31. If you hear someone scream, you shouldn't close the drapes. You should help. You've got to try.
Shirley Temple
#32. A lot of people believe that when you are Buddhist, you are the Dalai Lama. I'm certainly not.
Eric Ripert
#33. Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#34. I've sort of prided myself on playing characters with conscience. The first way I go about creating a character is looking at that area of conscience. What have they done, and what has it cost.
Lorraine Toussaint
#35. No, I want to take you out back and beat your fucking head on the floor.
Sebastian Faulks
#36. Like if Leonardo from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles started being all bummed out about everything. How were we going to kick arse if our Leonardo was wearing a black eye-band instead of a blue one?
Dougie Poynter
#37. I threw my whole life and lived my life in a certain way to make sure that I would never violate any law.. certainly never any criminal laws.. and always maintained that most important to me was my integrity, was my character, were my values.
Kenneth Lay
#38. When you get ... to the end, you see that love and family are all there is. Nothing else matters.
Kristin Hannah
#39. I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.
Eliot Spitzer
#40. The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.
James Allen
#41. War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness to unintended secondary results.
Joseph Sobran
