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Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes. -- Dave Reichert
Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets. -- Sara Paretsky
We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination. -- Olympia Snowe
A young lady ought to be two things: tasteful and breathtaking. -- Coco Chanel
It is the climbing of the mountain that makes the view from the top so breathtaking. -- Richard C. Miller
Hip-hop...has been the proverbial key that's opened the door for me to roam this breathtaking planet. -- Raquel Cepeda
breathtaking, adj. Those moments when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word. -- David Levithan
Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness. -- Aaron Copland
The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life. -- Euripides
Take criticism, smash it into dust. Add color and use it to paint breathtaking images of unicorns frolicking through endless fields of greatness. -- Matthew Gray Gubler
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do. -- William Ellery Channing
A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities. -- William Arthur Ward
Artist Allen Crawford brings Whitman's undying text to new life in gorgeous hand-lettering and illustrations, transforming the 60-page poem originally published in 1855 as the centerpiece of Leaves of Grass into a breathtaking 256-page piece of art. -- Maria Popova
You think I'm cute?" He said thinkly, pulling on her hand. She was glad he couldn't see her face. "I think you're..." Beautiful. Breathtaking. Like the person in a Greek myth who makes one of the gods stop caring about being a god. -- Rainbow Rowell
The variety of shape, pattern, and color found in the languages of the world is a testament to the wonder of nature, to the breathtaking array of possibilities that can emerge, tangled and wild, from the fertile human endowments of brain and larynx, intelligence and social skills. -- Arika Okrent
Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings on the Moon. Not a single great poem, picture, metaphor has come of this breathtaking act, of Prometheus' rescue of Icarus or of Phaeton in flight towards the stars. -- George Steiner
The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters -- William Maxwell
No, Susanna, " he said. "I cannot love you just a little. If that's what you want, you must find a different man." His green eyes were breathtaking in their intensity. His thumb brushed her bottom lip. "Because I can only love you entirely. With everything I am, and everything I ever will be. Body, mind, heart, soul. -- Tessa Dare
To me, beauty and sadness are very closely linked. Truly beautiful things make me sad because I know they are going to fade. When I see a beautiful 20-year-old boy or girl-and they are breathtaking-I am filled with a kind of sadness. But maybe they are beautiful because we know they are not permanent and they are in a kind of transition. -- Tom Ford
Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and Arabia to the Etruscans, she leads the reader on a breathtaking quest for the real ancient warrior women reflected in myths--their daring, archery, tattoos, fine horses, and independence from male control. The book's rich erudition, communicated in sparkling prose and beautiful illustrations, makes it a riveting read. -- Edith Hall
But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challenges. -- Lee H. Hamilton
I think of Canada, first and foremost, in terms of space. The amount of space available is breathtaking. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Vanessa Williams in person is like... the camera cannot capture how gorgeous this woman is! She is just so breathtaking. -- Jurnee Smollett
With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking. -- Taraji P. Henson
I play beside one of the unsung heroes in David Vaughan. It's a privilege to play with him: he is breathtaking at times. -- Charlie Adam
I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can't make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse. -- Brian Eno
Everyone should walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I did it three days in a row because it was one of the most exhilarating experiences I've ever had. The view is breathtaking. -- Seann William Scott
A 'Torchwood' movie would be incredible. It would be sensational to have a beginning, a middle and an end in ninety minutes. A big walloping 'Torchwood' crunched into ninety minutes would be breathtaking. -- Eve Myles
The Wine of Summer' is a beautiful film about love lost and found, and the complexities of life while discovering who you are. It was filmed primarily in and around Barcelona, and the imagery is breathtaking. -- Kelsey Chow
It is still breathtaking to me to watch people bring love, preciousness and kindness to their inner world, allowing the light of God to shine through their eyes so that the beauty of their soul can come forth. -- Debbie Ford
Schweitzer is where I found snowboarding; it will always have a special place in my heart and is a top-notch ski resort. It has some of the best bowl tree skiing in the world and breathtaking views of Sandpoint and Lake Pend Oreille. -- Nate Holland
I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction - not to mention in other media like TV, opera, theatre, and even in video games! I relish when dark and compelling characters compete for our protagonist's heart. The doubts, the uncertainty - the jealousy! - can be breathtaking. -- Kresley Cole
There's something about the Pacific Northwest, the scale of it, and the fact that not so long ago people came here and died getting here, and then died the first winter they were here. There's this breathtaking beauty, just a little bit of moss on the tree, just this little thread of danger, and the sinister. And I really like that. -- Chelsea Cain
What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability. -- Haruki Murakami
How can the most cruel and despicable create something as breathtaking beautiful as this? -- D.S. Wrights
The most breathtaking thing about being in space is actually looking back at the Earth. -- Richard Branson
Who is not afraid of pure space - that breathtaking empty space of an open door? -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
If you have never visited the valleys, the view from the mountain top is not breathtaking. -- Robin Sharma
There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking. -- Bill Henson
It had always been a breathtaking view, the kind that made him inhale and forget to exhale . . . -- Seré Prince Halverson
breathtaking, adj.Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word. -- David Levithan
That's how I always want to remember my time with you. Like a pure white light, breathtaking to behold. -- Nicholas Sparks
Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies. -- Diane Arbus
Life can be just black and white, but with imagination, life is a kaleidoscope of exhilarating colors and breathtaking adventures. -- Wes Adamson
I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content. -- Richard Dawkins
Design isn't crafting a beautiful, textured button with breathtaking animation. It's figuring out if there's a way to get rid of the button altogether. -- Edward Tufte
The breathtaking inanity of the [school] Board's decision is evident when considered against the factual backdrop which has now been fully revealed through this trial. -- John E. Jones III
You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
Sometimes you won't feel pleasant during a meditation session; it seems like an uphill run. But when you get to the top, the view is rather breathtaking. -- Frederick Lenz
Julie Orringer is the real thing, a breathtaking chronicler of the secrets and cruelties underneath the surface of middle-class American life. These are terrific stories-wise, compassionate and haunting. -- Dan Chaon
Everyone should walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I did it three days in a row because it was one of the most exhilarating experiences I've ever had. The view is breathtaking. -- Seann William Scott
The world supports a multi-million dollar industry of intelligence and ability research, but it devotes virtually nothing to determine why this intelligence is squandered by engaging in amazing, breathtaking acts of stupidity. -- Robert Sternberg
We live in a world of breathtaking material plenty. That has freed hundreds of millions of people from day-to-day struggles and liberated us to pursue more significant desires: purpose, transcendence, and spiritual fulfillment. -- Daniel H. Pink
I thought Marilyn Monroe was the most beautiful woman in the world and Elizabeth Taylor breathtaking. But when I see myself on the screen I say: 'Oh shoot! What are they talking about?' -- Farrah Fawcett
Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice. -- Alan Moore
There you have it! - How they anticipate my wishes, how they grant friendship's little attentions, which are worth a thousand times more than breathtaking presents that merely prove the giver's vanity and humiliate us. -- J.W. Goethe

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