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A man will do astonishing things for a woman he is ardent about. — Celeste Bradley
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses… — Raymond Queneau
Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach… — Nikola Tesla
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics. — Gregory Bateson
He was skinning a bear. I was terrified at first, because the corpse resembled a naked man quartered between two trees. He'd created a deadfall… — Dave Cook
It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics. — John Maynard Keynes
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man… — Alphonse de Lamartine
The one who’s really, really impressed me is Benedikt Höwedes because he’s playing out of position. He’s never played at left back before in his… — Franz Beckenbauer
It is astonishing how elements which seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. How confusions which seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when… — Carl Rogers
One way to begin to see how vastly indulgent we usually are is to fast. It is a long day that is not broken by… — Elisabeth Elliot
Things can never be as they were. It's astonishing how we comment on change, as if change is something remarkable. On the contrary, not to… — Shashi Deshpande
I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it. — Larry Wall
Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. The photographs show the… — Lewis Thomas
At one year of age the child says his first intentional wordhis babbling has a purpose, and this intention is a proof of conscious intelligenceHe… — Maria Montessori
American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate. — Jim Ramstad
You look at it [a photograph] and all around the real world is humming, buzzing and moving, and yet in this little frame there is… — Joel Meyerowitz
Real Madrid fans have to wear sunglasses while watching their team because this star-studded team of diamonds is just astonishing. — Ray Hudson
If the cells and fibres in one human brain were all stretched out end to end, they would certainly reach to the moon and back.… — Colin Blakemore
Michael Jackson was the most astonishing person I've ever met on the face of this planet. — Howard Bloom
Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before… — Henri Bergson
The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing. — Edwin Meese
What is there astonishing in the death of a mortal? But we are grieved at his dying before his time. Are we sure that this… — Saint Basil
White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries of condemnation of… — Jamake Highwater
It remains an astonishing, disturbing fact that in America - a nation where nearly every new drug is subjected to rigorous scrutiny as a potential… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing in it. Not to overcome… — Watchman Nee

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