Best Astonished Quotes
187 Astonished quotes by 162 unique authors
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How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that…
— George Leigh Mallory
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Much of the scientific community has been astonished that their increasingly strong and detailed warnings have been either ignored or attacked.
— Joseph J. Romm
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He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting…
— Geoff Dyer
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Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an appendix, for instance.…
— Carl Jung
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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…
— Barbara Pym
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Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world
— Erik Larson
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So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like archangels. The sky…
— H.G. Wells
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I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.
— Murray Gell-Mann
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I humbly believe our life is to learn our nothingness and His being everything; when we agree with Him that we are nothing and not…
— Charles George Gordon
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The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money…
— William Christopher Handy
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The holiness of the church means that life, as well as truth, marks Christ’s church; the behavior of Christians in the world must be remarkable…
— Edmund Clowney
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Think for yourself, and believe in yourself. Keep your skeptical antennae tuned in and in good working order at all times. We are free to…
— Dennis McKenna
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According to the Buddha's teaching the beginning of the life-stream of living beings is unthinkable. THe believer in the creation of life by God may…
— Walpola Rahula
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I stand astonished at my own moderation
— Robert Clive
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One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Bouillabaisse, this golden soup, this incomparable golden soup which embodies and concentrates all the aromas of our shores and which permeates, like an ecstasy, the…
— Curnonsky
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The author tells a story wherein a missionary friend of his was invited by unbelievers on a train ride to play cards. The friend declined,…
— Watchman Nee
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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…
— Thomas A. Edison
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Those chess lovers who ask me how many moves I usually calculate in advance, when making a combination, are always astonished when I reply, quite…
— Richard Reti
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This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper.
— Unknown Author
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If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could…
— Brad Bird
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Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.
— Mary Oliver
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Among the greatest of all great services is the education of children, and promotion of the various sciences, crafts and arts. Praised be God, ye…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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The more you read the Bible; and the more you meditate on it, the more you will be astonished with it.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and…
— Albert Einstein
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