Astonish Quotes

Scatter good will and love and prayers all around, everywhere, and you will be astonished, not only by what it does for other people, but how it comes back to you in generous abundance.

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?

What an astonishing thing a book is.

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.