It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

It is astonishing what force purity and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed when that little wisdom is its own.

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.

I'm astonished by my success.

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.

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.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

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.