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Astonishing Quotes

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

Philip Roth (2000). “The Human Stain: A Novel”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I have discovered an astonishing truth. God is attracted to weaknesses.

Jim Cymbala (2010). “Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.64, Wordsworth Editions

Is it not astonishing that the love of repose keeps us in continual agitation?

François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.164

isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.263, Courier Corporation

astonishing splashes of colour

James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.4, 谷月社

It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.373, Penguin

A man will do astonishing things for a woman he is ardent about.

Celeste Bradley (2008). “Duke Most Wanted”, p.129, Macmillan

What an astonishing thing a book is.

"Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". TV Series (Episode 11: The Persistence of Memory), 1990.