Astonishment Quotes

143 Astonishment quotes by 119 unique authors

Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in diameter, here and… — Charles Darwin
It certainly strikes the beholder with astonishment, to perceive what vast difficulties can be overcome by the pigmy arms of little mortal man, aided by… — Henry VIII of England
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration… — G. H. Hardy
At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to check me; he… — Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
One day, to everyone’s astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up. — James A. Baldwin
It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an adequate idea of… — Charles Darwin
There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain… — Margaret Atwood
The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich — Andrew Carnegie
The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope. — Max Lerner
I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all… — Florence King
I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it. — Theodore Sturgeon
I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my… — Maria Monk
The Astonishment Tapes will now take its place within the growing field of international research about postwar American poetry's important contribution to world literature. Miriam… — Peter Gizzi
The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential. — Tama J. Kieves
HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing. — Alice Walker
I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm, and the astonishment,… — Rupert Brooke
This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and… — Oliver Goldsmith
Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy, astonishment. All of… — Luis Barragan
How many men are like trees, already strong and full grown, which are transplanted into some gardens, to the astonishment of those people who behold… — Jean de la Bruyere
Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and discipline to look good at a certain… — Joan Collins
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. — Eugene Ionesco
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to… — Margaret Mead
Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment. — Ellis Peters

Who Wrote These Astonishment Quotes

119 authors contributed a total of 143 Astonishment Quotes, led by these top contributors: