Astonish Quotes

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.