It's astonishing how many business owners are terrified of selling. Salespeople who see the most people a day are the highest paid… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“It was an astonishing fantasy but it showed me what even apparently sensible people can believe if they really want to. I” — John Cleese Copy Share Image
English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and… — Jacqueline Bisset Copy Share Image
Society, in the aggregate, is no fool. It is astonishing what an amount of "eccentricity" it will stand from anybody who takes… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an… — Jim Ramstad Copy Share Image
“Many have never risked losing the normalcy of their daily existence to gain the astonishing experience of having to see God come… — Murray Pura Copy Share Image
Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth. It is astonishing how few… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If the cells and fibres in one human brain were all stretched out end to end, they would certainly reach to the… — Colin Blakemore Copy Share Image
You will permit me to say, that a greater drama is now acting on this theatre than has heretofore been brought on… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Can a one judge sitting somewhere in a trial court issue an order that says nobody in the world is allowed to… — Eben Moglen Copy Share Image
Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you,… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
The diversity of life on Earth, generally, is astonishing. But despite those large numbers, it's also important to recognize that every species,… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
An astonishing portion of my life is built around trying to evade vomiting and preparing for the eventuality that I might. — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
“To begin with a summary of Paine’s astonishing life and career is to commence with a sense of wonder that he was… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I dread our own power and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded…We may say that we shall not… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Let us stop being afraid. Of our own thoughts, our own minds. Of madness, our own or others'. Stop being afraid of… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best… — Lindsay Duncan Copy Share Image
When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
I feel vulnerable every day to the grace of God as expressed in every living thing. I feel vulnerable to the astonishing… — Brad Willis Copy Share Image
When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. ...… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
The destruction that we have wreaked in the various theaters in which we've been engaged is really quite astonishing. But again, lethality,… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot in the back five… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
“The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Inexperienced players have a fear of this piece, which seems to them enigmatic, mysterious, and astonishing in its power. We must admit… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
In Tunisia the Americans had to pay a stiff price for their experience, but it brought rich dividends. Even at that time,… — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
I'm not for pretending that bad stuff doesn't exist, and a passion for justice and truth is a libertarian trait. But the… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Nothing of real worth can be obtained without courageous working. Man owes his growth chiefly to the active striving of the will,… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
In terms of the most astonishing fact about which we know nothing, there is dark matter and dark energy. We don't know… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Death is, in some ways, unacceptable. It's just an astonishing fact of our being here that we die; but I think worse… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The poor Sufi dressed in rags walked into a jewelry store owned by a rich merchant and asked him, "Do you know… — John Green Copy Share Image
A great thing is happening on cable TV. You see characters change in stories over years, like in Tolstoy. That's a whole,… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
