Astonishment Quote by Thaddeus Stevens Download Open image “Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.” — Thaddeus Stevens ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Astonishment Capacity Opposition
For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Rejoice in liberating moments of victory when conflicts, trials, and adversity fall momentarily under your command. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
“Astonishment is the effect of the sublime in its highest degree, the inferior effects are admiration, reverence and respect.” — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering. — Laozi Copy Share Image
What is it that's taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my powers? — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
When I have won a victory I do not repeat my tactics but respond to circumstances in an infinite variety of ways. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I care not whether the soldiers are of Milesian, Teutonic, African or Angelo-Saxon descent. I despise the principle that make a difference between them… — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however dignified by… — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: 'Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the… — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America. — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
I don’t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more. — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
Every humane and patriotic heart must grieve to see a bloody and causeless rebellion, costing thousands of human lives and millions of treasure. But… — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children… — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
I wish the Indians had newspapers of their own. If they had, you would have horrible pictures of the cold-blooded murders of inoffensive Indians. — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
“Do you inquire why, holding these views and possessing some will of my own, i accept so imperfect a proposition? I answer, because I… — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false… — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment. — William Macneile Dixon Copy Share Image
If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Witness each moment in astounded jubilation. Take every holy breath in gratitude. Rejoice in life!” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For a moment Clary thought she might fall; she felt as if something essential had been torn away from her, an arm or a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Both of you’ll just have to believe me. Emma’s one of those women who was born with… The thing is, the minute a heterosexual… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient of Days… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
