Astonishment Quote by Thaddeus Stevens

I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.

— Seamus Heaney

Holding you, I held everything.

— Garth Brooks

For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition,

— Yves Saint Laurent

Rejoice in liberating moments of victory when conflicts, trials, and adversity fall momentarily under your command.

— Wes Fesler

Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.

— Fidel Castro

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

“Astonishment is the effect of the sublime in its highest degree, the inferior effects are admiration, reverence and respect.”

— Edmund Burke

If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.

— Laozi

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

Repetition may not entertain, but it teaches.

— Frederic Bastiat

When I have won a victory I do not repeat my tactics but respond to circumstances in an infinite variety of ways.

— Sun Tzu