Quotes About Astonishing Others

#1. It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them.

Charles Baudelaire

#2. It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess.

Max Weber

#3. Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.

Gertrude Stein

#4. It was an astonishing fantasy but it showed me what even apparently sensible people can believe if they really want to. I

John Cleese

#5. It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association

William James

#6. It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Thomas A. Edison

#7. Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.

Magdalena Abakanowicz

#8. It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.

Neil Gaiman

#9. Are you all right?"
"Oh my god! I phased!"
"Are you all right?"
"Are you?"
"It was strange."
"I can't believe I phased just then! That's never ... it was totally your fault."
"I like to think so, yes."
"Tee hee.

Joss Whedon

#10. It was a voice she had heard before, deep and raspy. It made her bones crack and splinter, made her feel the astonishing cold of a winter long since passed.

Sarah J. Maas

#11. All right, Emma. You brought me in. You made your move. Just like I knew you would. A nice move. Now it's my turn.

Joss Whedon

#12. It's fashionable with the Sarah Palin set to attack Harvard and treat its graduates as elitists. But if you spend any time on campus, you see students drawn from all over the world - an astonishing number these days with roots in Asia - whose chief assets are brainpower and hard work.

David Ignatius

#13. The world of the everyday suddenly seemed nothing but an inverted magic act, lulling its audience into believing in the usual, familiar conceptions of space and time, while the astonishing truth of quantum reality lay carefully guarded by nature's sleights of hand.

Brian Greene

#14. The very fact that a holy, eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful, merciful, fair, and just God loves you and me is nothing short of astonishing.

Francis Chan

#15. Astonishing! Everything is intelligent!

Pythagoras

#16. Every man and woman is made in the Father's image and likeness and thus shares in the dominion and dignity of the one God and King. This is one of the most astonishing elements of the story: God desires to relate to his creatures, not as a master to a slave but as a Father to his sons and daughters!

Tim Gray

#17. This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even more astonishing ...

George McGovern

#18. Lydea found Mag's knowledge astonishing, and had gotten into the habit of taking lessons with the prince. They helped each other study, sometimes with the aid of puppets.

Patricia A. McKillip

#19. The astonishing thing is that some people are good, and that many others try to be.

Katherine Boo

#20. Either the men of Galilee were men of superlative wisdom, and extensive knowledge and experience, and of deeper skill in the arts of deception than any and all others, before them or after them, or they have truly stated astonishing things which they saw and heard.

Simon Greenleaf

#21. Some of life's moments mark a break in consciousness; others give rise to streams of scintillating, philosophical ideas or astonishing works of art; still others, to important meeting or profound personal upheavals.

Elie Wiesel

#22. But even as every promise was broken, the party kept on gaining followers. Many were idealists, some were opportunists, others thugs. They displayed astonishing faith and almost fanatical conviction, sometimes even after they themselves had ended up being devoured by the party machinery. A

Frank Dikotter

#23. Words have not just the astonishing capacity to banish boredom and create wonders. They also enable contact with the lives of others and with story worlds, arousing endless curiosity about ourselves and the places we inhabit.

Maria Tatar

#24. I love the walking contradiction of the body. I want to make corporeal characters, corporeal writing, I want to bring the intensities and contradictions and beauty and violence and stench and desire and astonishing physicality of the body back into literature.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#25. The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome.

August Bournonville

#26. Being more aware will enable you to have only astonishing impressions, avoiding any of the disappointing experiences like some of those we went through.

Sahara Sanders

#27. It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak.

James A. Baldwin

#28. It is astonishing to realize that until Galileo performed his experiments on the acceleration of gravity in the early seventeenth century, nobody questioned Aristotle's falling balls. Nobody said, Show Me!

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#29. You are all the happiness," he said, with an energy of conviction astonishing at half-past nine in the morning, "and all the music, and all the colour, and all the fragrance there is in the world.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#30. It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.

John Bulwer

#31. Panama still more extraordinary machines would work an even more astonishing success. The wonderful thing was that the American dredges did

David McCullough

#32. Be a mirror of life. Let everyone see their own astonishing beauty in your mirror.

Debasish Mridha

#33. [T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.

Charles Baxter

#34. White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries of condemnation of dancing on religious grounds.

Jamake Highwater

#35. Humans pull together in an odd way when they're in the wilderness. It's astonishing how few people litter and how much they help one another. Indeed, the smartphone app to navigate the Pacific Crest Trail, Halfmile, is a labor of love by hikers who make it available as a free download.

Nicholas Kristof

#36. But then he put aside the awkward encounter, which his mind allowed him to do quite easily. He could compartmentalize at an astonishing level. It came from not giving a shit.

David Baldacci

#37. It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

Oscar Niemeyer

#38. I have discovered an astonishing truth. God is attracted to weaknesses.

Jim Cymbala

#39. Our existence has always and everywhere been tragic, but man has converted these numberless tragedies into works of art. I know of nothing more astonishing or more wonderful than this transformation.

Maxim Gorky

#40. It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

Agatha Christie

#41. Most people managed to evade home truths with astonishing ease.

Karen Hawkins

#42. It was truly an astonishing grassroots explosion, ... The objective was to get a nationwide demonstration of concern for the environment so large that it would shake the political establishment out of its lethargy.

Gaylord Nelson

#43. Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all.

Bruce Beresford

#44. Wallets can establish connections and change opinions. Things that fall apart can be glued back by money with astonishing alacrity.

Robert Walser