Stupendous Quotes

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Strange, that I came into the world with nothing, and now I am going away with this stupendous caravan of sin! Wherever I look, I… — Aurangzeb
I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch… — Edmund Husserl
What wonderful majesty! What stupendous condescension! O sublime humility! That the Lord of the whole universe, God and the Son of God, should humble Himself… — Francis of Assisi
The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible. — H. L. Mencken
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty,… — Thomas Jefferson
Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a dinosaur or zeppelin… — Peter Medawar
We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently wait for, but… — John Ambrose Fleming
All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of… — Voltaire
Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabrick of… — George Washington
A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory. — Christopher Hitchens
I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much less what it… — Terry Teachout
The biggest lesson I have learned is the stupendous importance of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you… — Dale Carnegie
The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous. — Barbara Cartland
Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have… — William Macneile Dixon
The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of Reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do. — Eric Gutkind
Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know. — Amy Lowell
The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied… — Edward Gibbon
The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic, stretching… — Rose Macaulay
It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction. — Oliver Tambo

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