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For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever. -- Arthur Sullivan
For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever. -- Arthur Sullivan
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed. -- Boris Pasternak
If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life. -- Anna Freud
I'm just so grateful and astonished that I'm still respected and listened to. -- Mike Oldfield
Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make. -- David Lee Roth
I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results. -- Murray Gell-Mann
I'm always astonished to see how badly people can behave when they think no one is noticing. -- Diane Mott Davidson
I am astonished and surprised that someone could consider making a film about me without talking to me about it. -- Brigitte Bardot
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person. -- Blaise Pascal
I'm astonished by my success. I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous. -- Danielle Steel
We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming. -- Howard Carter
I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn. -- Gunter Grass
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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. -- Baruch Spinoza
Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life. -- Mark Haddon
Job was astonished at seeing Almighty God so intent on doing good to us that He seems to have nothing more at heart than to love us and to induce us to love Him in return. -- Alphonsus Liguori
I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online. -- Jaron Lanier
I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, I'm kind of astonished because I think, 'This is completely normal. This is just how I am, it's how I've always been.' -- Daphne Guinness
You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved. -- Lauren Holly
I'm always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at the variety of books they do buy and the extent to which they are not the big bestsellers. -- Michael Korda
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that. -- John Keats
I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street. -- Max Muller
I have this threadbare caftan from the '60s that I got at a vintage store years ago - it's basically a muumuu. My friends are astonished that I wear it, but I love it. It's this light fabric that just moves with me. -- Gabrielle Anwar
Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed. -- John Updike
I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S. -- Eduardo Galeano
Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev. -- Russell Baker
Did you hear the one about the elderly Jew on his deathbed who sent for a priest, after declaring to his astonished relatives that 'I want to convert.' Asked why he would become a Catholic, after living all his life as a Jew, he answered: 'Better one of them should die than one of us.' -- Alan King
I'm astonished by my success. -- Danielle Steel
The wise man is astonished by anything. -- Andre Gide
I stand astonished at my own moderation -- Robert Clive
My demon's a girl? Gideon said, astonished. -- Gena Showalter
Do not be astonished at anything, even happiness. -- Elsa Triolet
Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world -- Erik Larson
We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful. -- Voltaire
Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind. -- Edward Abbey
I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what. -- Jim Harrison
Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. -- Mary Oliver
If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete. -- Deepak Chopra
It is a mark of genius not to astonish but to be astonished. -- Aubrey Menen
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- Andre Maurois
By God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own modesty. -- Robert Clive
I have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished -- A. R. Ammons
We are not sufficiently astonished by the fact that any science may be possible. -- Louis de Broglie
Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing. -- Harold Prince
I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results." -- Murray Gell Mann
Young people have the advantage because they have their whole lives open to be astonished. -- Daniel Libeskind
Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us. -- Luc de Clapiers
(The historian) was able to disapprove without being astonished. She could reject and still understand. -- Sam Wineburg
Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence. -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them. -- Charles Baudelaire
Wordlessly I looked back at him, astonished that a kiss on the palm could be so intimate. -- Deborah Harkness
In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Cody was both ashamed and astonished to learn that it was actually possible to break a penis. -- Evan Gilbert
Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra. -- W. Somerset Maugham
This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper. -- Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron Evershed
The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore. -- Albert Camus
If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public. -- Timothy Keller
When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear. -- Abby Sunderland
... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life? -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Behold, directly overhead, a certain strange star was suddenly seen . . . Amazed, and as if astonished and stupified, I stood still -- Tycho Brahe
I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do. -- Chuck Jones
No one can become and remain a theologian unless he is compelled again and again to be astonished at himself. -- Karl Barth
Many words befall men, mean and noble alike; do not be astonished by them, nor allow yourself to be constrained. -- Pythagoras
Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
The more you read the Bible; and the more you meditate on it, the more you will be astonished with it. -- Charles Spurgeon
I feel like the earth, astonished at fragrance borne in the air, made pregnant with mystery from a drop of rain. -- Rumi
Much of the scientific community has been astonished that their increasingly strong and detailed warnings have been either ignored or attacked. -- Joseph J. Romm
When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough. -- Fran Lebowitz
If a woman shows too often the Medusa's head, she must not be astonished if her lover is turned into stone. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In the original language, 'Fear the Lord' doesn't mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him. -- Timothy Keller
In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out. -- Richard Flanagan
We must accustom ourselves to the follies of others and not be astonished at the foolishness that takes place in our presence. -- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...
Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished. -- Mary Oliver
It's alarming how quickly people adjust to adventures when they are in one. You really have to work at being astonished by life. -- Ellen Potter
I want e by Jose Andres to be a discovery, to be a journey. I want people to find it and be astonished. -- Jose Andres
I am astonished by the amount and quality of love that is available if we will ask, and participate and show up for life. -- Sark
I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment. -- William Golding
The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had always understood. -- Pierre Bourdieu
If you'll begin to develop and maintain an attitude that says yes to life and the world, you'll be astonished at the changes you'll see. -- Earl Nightingale
The amazing heroic women in labor, they are the truest inspiration, and when they push their babies into the light... I am astonished every time. -- Robin Lim
I've always been astonished by how wonderful he [Timur Bekmambetov] makes something look for so little. I think he shoots action like no one else. -- Dominic Cooper
I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum. -- Carl Jung
It is almost a sadness to my soul that men should be astonished and surprised at an ordinary, tangible evidence of the power of God. -- John G. Lake
it is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world ... -- Sarah Orne Jewett
There are times when phrases such as 'totally astonished' just don't do the job. I am, of course, delighted and honoured and, needless to say, flabbergasted. -- Terry Pratchett
Tyrion Lannister could not have been more astonished if Aegon the Conqueror himself had burst into the room, riding on a dragon and juggling lemon pies. -- George R. R. Martin
It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
In these anxious times many of us are less astonished that reason is ever suspended than that it should ever prevail, even during the briefest of intervals. -- Morton Irving Seiden
I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire. -- Charles Lindbergh
Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave more wickedly than it obviously does. -- Morton Irving Seiden
Prayer if it is real is an acknowledgment of our finitude, our need, our openness to be changed, our readiness to be surprised, yes, astonished by the "beams of love." -- Douglas V. Steere
Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch. -- Salvador Dali
True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy. -- John Ruskin
While it is possible to create all your own energy, most people feed off the energy of others. If you could see on multiple planes of attention you would be astonished! -- Frederick Lenz
Glory is sometimes a low courtesan who on the road entices many who did not think of her. They are astonished to obtain favors without having done anything to deserve them. -- Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne
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 my hand on every dramatic occasion. -- Barbara Pym
It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue. -- George Eliot
Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion. -- Honore de Balzac
After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours. -- Michelle Moran
I am astonished about those people who are ordered to prepare their provisions, then the start of the journey is announced, however they remain unmindful in their vain discussions and fruitless deeds. -- Hasan of Basra
The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion. -- John Stuart Mill
I've just finished reading Reality Hunger and I'm lit up by it-astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed. . . . It really is an urgent book: a piece of art-making itself, a sublime, exciting, outrageous, visionary volume. -- Jonathan Lethem
A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been. -- Victor Hugo
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 truthfully, 'as a rule not a single one' -- Richard Reti
I had been astonished to find myself in the middle of the war yet not be able to find it, unable to accept that in fact the war consisted precisely of this stasis. -- Gabriel Chevallier
Let people alone. Let them find their way. Let them find their level and you may sometimes be delighted and astonished at the extraordinary high level to which they'll rise if they're let alone. -- Robertson Davies
I have been studying now for about 2 years, on a rather intensive basis, the UFO problem. I have interviewed several hundred witnesses in selected cases, and I am astonished at what I have found. -- James MacDonald
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. -- Norman Vincent Peale
I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry. -- Lafcadio Hearn
People I meet today, especially journalists who interview me, are astonished to hear that Lenin told me, in effect, that Communism was not working and that the Revolution needed American capital and technical aid. -- Armand Hammer
I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have not so much merit as they lead us to suppose. -- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
It has always astonished me, Georgy Daniilovich, that those who are most repulsed by autocratic or dictatorial rule are among the first to eliminate their enemies once they take on the mantle of power themselves. -- John Boyne
I have always been astonished that women were allowed to enter churches. What conversation can they possibly have with God? The eternal Venus (caprice, hysteria, fantasy) is one of the seductive forms of the Devil. -- Charles Baudelaire
When I moved to SF in my early 20s, I loved it, but I was absolutely astonished to discover that people there hated L.A. I was just like why? Really? I had no idea. -- Matthew Specktor

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