Best Astonishing Quotes
290 Astonishing quotes by 252 unique authors
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Having observed the forces of all things natural and celestial and having examined by painstaking investigation the sympathy among those things, brings into the open…
— Unknown Author
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It is better to give love. Hatred is a low and degrading motion and is so poisonous that no man is strong enough to use…
— Thomas Dreier
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If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.
— Lytton Strachey
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The type of UFO reports that are most intriguing are close-range sightings of machinelike objects of unconventional nature and unconventional performance characteristics, seen at low…
— Unknown Author
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Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857, 1869, 1873, 1907,…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an animal in appropriate…
— Niels Kaj Jerne
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Not too many songwriters, when they write songs go for broke. When someone does who's really good, it's astonishing. There's a reason a three-minute song…
— Lou Reed
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Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and…
— Noam Chomsky
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Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter.…
— Mark Twain
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As my old professor Carl Sagan said so often, 'When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.’ And I base my beliefs on…
— Bill Nye
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The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.
— Bill Nye
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My sons the same, hes terribly funny. Its a wonderful power to have. Its also fantastically disarming. Women find it unbelievably disarming. You can say…
— Robbie Coltraine
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To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and miraculous to think that…
— Lionel Barrymore
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ATLANTA NIGHTS not only changed my life, it changed my mind. An astonishing read, worth it at half the price.
— Robin Wayne Bailey
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Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution and afterward. Denied…
— Natalie Zemon Davis
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When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn…
— Carl Rogers
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MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the media, schoolbooks, and pulpits to…
— Richard Holbrooke
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It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak.
— James A. Baldwin
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa…
— Karolina Kurkova
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English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards…
— Mary Augusta Ward
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Regarding The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: The Music Man (for which Willson also wrote the lyrics) is an astonishing creation. It came in a…
— Meredith Willson
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I discovered an astonishing truth: God is attracted to weakness. He cannot resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need him.
— Jim Cymbala
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The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars.
— Elissa Schappell
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