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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child. -- Ted Danson
Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it. -- Simon Callow
It's important that the adults appreciate that young people are capable of doing really astounding work. -- Vint Cerf
Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding. -- Tony Campolo
Often, the disconnect between the marketing hype around a new product and what the product actually does is astounding. -- Mitch Kapor
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
The same ten dollars you spend on lunch is all it costs for City Harvest to feed 37 kids who are hungry. That's pretty astounding. -- Marcus Samuelsson
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. -- John Maynard Keynes
I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination. -- Steve Lacy
I want to play Lena Horne because I've always been fascinated with her. Her talent was astounding and more than that, her life story is incredible. -- Naya Rivera
Mongolia is a country of rich and ancient heritage, unique culture and astounding natural beauty. It is a land of free and brave, peace-loving and hard-working people. -- Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul. -- Karel Capek
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. -- Oscar Wilde
I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts. -- Zainab Salbi
Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race. -- Yoko Ono
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 how you count it; it's some people coming multiple times. -- Michael Bloomberg
When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the system's most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results. -- Ron Wyden
A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding. -- Lara St. John
My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding. -- Carl Hiaasen
If all I hired were cake decorators, our cakes would just look like cakes that people decorate. We do astounding work at Charm City Cakes and to do that you need people who think in astounding ways. Artists just think in different ways. -- Duff Goldman
Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre. -- John Podhoretz
The truth is, I'd never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it's astounding, but I don't see any similarity between us. Except for the fact that I'm told he used to wear ladies' underwear, which is something I also do. -- Hugh Grant
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 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that. -- John Cleese
The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way. -- James Hillman
I'd never imagined myself in a band. So the fact that I've had such a long career without really naturally pursuing it is really astounding. It's taken me a long time to accept what I do for a living and actually feel like I have anything of value to add to the equation. -- Shirley Manson
I probably saved more black lives as mayor of New York City than any mayor in the history of this city. And I did it by having to use police officers in black areas where there was an astounding amount of crime. If that crime was in white areas, police officers would be in white areas. -- Rudy Giuliani
Almost everything about the universe is astounding. -- Freeman Dyson
The innocent curiosity of children gives them astounding courage. -- Plague Jack
That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding. -- Cheryl Strayed
Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it. -- Jean Cocteau
It's really quite astounding to see what the science says we can actually do. -- Jill Stein
So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding. -- Alice Walker
Today, over one million people now make their living on eBay, which is astounding. -- Niklas Zennstrom
Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. -- Henry David Thoreau
Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person. -- Robert Bly
I go to bed every night and the list of what I've accomplished is astounding. -- Kelly Clarkson
It is astounding what power being kind, mannered, polite and considerate has in transforming your life. -- Bryant McGill
An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past. -- Michael Aspel
He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift. -- Lauren DeStefano
Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure. -- Sydney J. Harris
Man's inhumanity toward man is astounding, and I'm just talking about the lineup at certain comedy clubs. -- Dov Davidoff
I'm a big history buff so to walk the streets...the ancient world like that was pretty astounding. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
The world is an astounding place, and we can see it every day, if we're open to it. -- Dewitt Jones
Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation. -- Orhan Pamuk
The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact. -- William Hurt
It is because of the doctrine of judgment and hell that Jesus' proclamations of grace and love are so astounding. -- Timothy Keller
The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions. -- Marya Hornbacher
Your total intelligence knows how to accomplish astounding feats. You just need a clear objective. Get clear. You will surprise yourself! -- Bryant McGill
The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It's strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed. -- Sienna Miller
The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it. -- Simone Weil
So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet... -- Nikola Tesla
'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event. -- John Berger
Most important to me is being able to release music and have an astounding relationship with whoever would be distributing the music. -- Joe Budden
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
I knew Lee Harvey Oswald, and I knew Jack Kennedy. The odds against that-one person knowing all four of those men-must be astounding. -- Truman Capote
The innocence of a child is an astounding quality which if not withered away as they grow can spread love and happiness everywhere -- Aura Of Thoughts
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
Everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her. -- Erin Morgenstern
Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too. -- Rachel Sklar
The astounding natural beauty of the USA is offset by its extremely poor social security system that is clearly apparent when driving around the country. -- Steven Magee
When you decide clearly and definitely what you want, then no sacrifice is too great as you put all of your powers into astounding results. -- Charles L. Allen
Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology. -- James Hillman
People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we had descended from apes. -- Stephen Fry
Oscars are won with two or three shots only, because if it's really beautifully photographed, you don't really notice it until the astounding moment emphasizes it. -- Nicolas Roeg
Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astounding universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy. -- Carl Sagan
I mostly like documentaries, so I always think things that happened in real life are so astounding that why would you make a movie about something fake. -- Jonah Hill
My images don't come close to real life. The world is remarkable, astounding and surprising that one does not need to exaggerate. What actually exists is simply insane. -- Duane Hanson
Penny knew also she loved the country for its beauty. Cities could be magnificent, astounding, fantastic, but they were not consistently beautiful and simple. Penny liked uncomplicated beauty. -- Dorothy Deming
And Donald Trump? That man literally has people shouting the n word at his rallies and he doesn't address it, which is astounding to me. He's a terrible person. -- Bill Burr
This is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding-- it's got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The woman who led [downed airmen] was named AndrÃ©e De Jongh and her story - one of heroism and peril and astounding courage - became the inspiration for my novel. -- Megan Chance
Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens--of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish as so many lumps of sodium hyposulphite. -- H. L. Mencken
First love is an astounding experience and if the object happens to be totally unworthy and love not really love at all, it makes little difference to the intensity of the pain. -- Angela Thirkell
It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leprous. -- John Steinbeck
It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is as white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leporous. -- John Steinbeck
Having come to realize in the first stage of meditation that we are not our bodies, in the second stage we make an even more astounding discovery; we are not our minds either. -- Eknath Easwaran
My life is very complicated. I have a lot of things going on. I am juggling a lot of responsibilities. There is so much going on that it is astounding, it really is. -- Michael Jackson
The degree to which the child-rearing professionals continue to be out of touch with reality is astounding. For example, a widely read manual on breast-feeding, devotes fewer than two pages to the working mother. -- Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to think: I might have been in his place. -- Helmut Schoeck
When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the systems most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results. -- Ron Wyden
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 have never seen, with whom I have never become acquainted. -- Martin Luther
Design is not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly extracts astounding ideas from the crevices of the very commonness of everyday life. -- Kenya Hara
No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute.... In connection with what other illegal vice is the seller alone penalized, and not the buyer? -- Crystal Eastman
It is astounding that man, the instigator, inventor and vehicle of all these developments, the originator of all judgements and decisions and the planner of the future, must make himself such a quantitÃ© negligeable. -- Carl Jung

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