Astounding Quotes

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'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event. — John Berger
There's a fascinating statistic: One out of every four people in America has visited New York since 9/11. It is astounding. Now, I don't know… — Michael Bloomberg
Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding. — Tony Campolo
It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3… — John Cleese
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people… — James A. Baldwin
Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space. — Nicholas Murray Butler
Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively few… — Douglas Hofstadter
Our faith is an astounding thing-astounding that I should believe him to be the Son of God who is suspended on the cross, whom I… — Martin Luther
Mozambique is having an economic resurgence but still four out of 10 people there have HIV or AIDS...There's astounding conditions but what I was left… — Leonardo DiCaprio
The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact. — William Hurt
Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras,… — Ben Okri
When we really start to take a look at who we think we are... we start to see that while we may have various thoughts,… — Adyashanti
The incomparable James Walvin has done it again: he has crafted a beautifully written and deeply informed single volume history of the Atlantic slave trade… — David W. Blight
The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented. — Josiah Stamp
All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out its context. And… — William Macneile Dixon
I love all men and women. I am a lover of humanity, not a hater. â€¦ I have been immoral, drunk, high. I ran with… — Phil Robertson
Some people's joints articulate in a manner that allows them to benefit greatly from squats; others may not benefit at all. If you're not too… — Dorian Yates
The arrogance of some of those who are so damned sure they are right is just astounding. Scientific witch hunts are often the worst kind,… — Jerry Pournelle
Were man to devote as much time and energy to himself as he has devoted to that which man has produced, what astounding and unbelievable… — Joseph Pilates
History repeats itself only in that, from afar, we all seem to lead exactly the same life. We are all born; we all spend time… — Edward Bloor

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