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These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business as usual.' But… — Yann Martel
And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is… — Anne Lamott
So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take… — Alexandre Dumas
Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing… — Samuel R. Delany
I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in… — Henry David Thoreau
The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings,… — Barbara Kingsolver
[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation. — Charles Baxter
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental… — Charles Baudelaire
To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly, so brutally, was… — Virginia Woolf
Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I moistened my lips. His gaze fixed on them. I think I stopped breathing. He jerked so sharply away that his long dark coat sliced… — Karen Marie Moning
And so, it is not astonishing that, though the patient enters therapy insisting that he wants to change, more often than not, what he really… — Sheldon B. Kopp
It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror. — James A. Baldwin
If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered, that once upon… — James Howard Kunstler
It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out… — Neil Gaiman
She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the… — John Eldredge
There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present to the idea,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their appetites are astonishing!… — David Mitchell
It's funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what was out there. We were… — Jon Stewart
It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success… — Franz Kafka
One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It was astonishing to see how angry Cersei could wax over accusations she knew perfectly well to be true. — George R. R. Martin
Isaac Asimov's remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: 'Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security… — Richard Dawkins
Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all… — Bertrand Russell

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