Astonishing Quotes
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I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
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The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome.
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It is astonishing how disrespectful it is to bring this up again. The rules don't seem to have any meaning for him.
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How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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The earth's warmth under me, as I stretch out at night, is astonishing. It is like the warmth of another body that has absorbed the sun all day and now gives out again its store of heat. It is softer, darker than I could ever have believed, and when I take a handful of it and smell its extraordinary odors, I know suddenly what it is I am composed of, as if the energy that is in this fistful of black soil had suddenly opened, between my body and it, as between it and the green stalks, some corridor along which our common being flowed.
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When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.
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What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?
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The fact that I've managed to find a husband who understands and respects everything I do is astonishing.
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"I tell you," he [Milosevic] continued, "Izetbegovic has earned Sarajevo by not abandoning it. He's one tough guy. It's his". These words were probably the most astonishing and unexpected of the conference.
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An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity.
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When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.
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Sven's actual results on the park were not quite good enough to make him a hero, and not quite bad enough to get him the sack, so he left the gentlemen of the press with something of a void. And they abhor a void. Soon the discovery that Sven was in fact a hammer-man of legendary proportions filled the void, until the media came to realise that Sven was that rare thing, a man whose astonishing success with women somehow didn't make him more interesting.
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It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
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For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.
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Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.
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But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.
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Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.
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The very fact that a holy, eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful, merciful, fair, and just God loves you and me is nothing short of astonishing.
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The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.
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No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity.
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We have been involved in racing for so long, it is astonishing we were not born with hooves.
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In spite of all these disquieting triumphs in the field of natural science, it's astonishing how little man has learned about himself, and how much there is to learn. How little we know about this brain which made social evolution possible, and of the mind. How little we know of the nature and spirit of man and God. We stand now before this inner frontier of ignorance. If we could pass it, we might well discover the meaning of life and understand man's destiny.
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She gave him the most astonishing vertigo. He should have hated it. But he didn’t - not one bit.
