Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Darwin

Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.

Jane Austen

I am all astonishment.

Charles Baudelaire

That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.

Eugene Ionesco

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

Cassandra Clare

He produced a handkerchief—crisply folded—and handed it to her. She took it with silent astonishment. She’d never before known anyone who carried a handkerchief.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.

Theodore Roethke

Live in a perpetual great astonishment.

Thaddeus Stevens

Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.

Enid Bagnold

I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living.

Benjamin Disraeli

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

Deepak Chopra

Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self.

Alexis de Tocqueville

To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.

Abraham Kuyper

We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God's Word and our holy faith.

William Shakespeare

That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)

Abraham Lincoln

God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.

Ally Carter

Ooh, the silent treatment.

Edith Stein

Those who remain silent are responsible.

Elizabeth I

I observe and remain silent.