Astounded Quotes

• I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Humor, Science

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• I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

  David Bowie

  Mother, Sex, Thinking

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• In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them.

  Michael Behe

  Eye, Details, World

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• Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Men, Talking

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• Im constantly astounded by how amazing women are. And as we go through all these different stages of life as long as you share them with others and say, Well, this is bloody weird, you can get through everything.

  Dawn French

  Long, Different, Amazing Woman

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• I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.

  David Attenborough

  Animal

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• If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite smallness of the composition of atoms, the macrocosm whereby we succeed only in creating outlines and translating a measure into numbers without our minds being able to form any concrete idea of it-we remain astounded by the enormous machinery of the universe.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Success, Stars, Philosophy

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• I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.

  David Attenborough

  Atmosphere, Growth, Balance

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• It's always astounded me to have succeeded at having kids. It's crazy!

  Carla Bruni

  Crazy, Kids, Having Kids

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• Oh, how great is the goodness of God, greater than we can understand. There are moments and there are mysteries of the divine mercy over which the heavens are astounded. Let our judgment of souls cease, for God's mercy upon them is extraordinary.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Faith, Inspiration, Heaven

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• When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

  Mark Twain

  Father, Science, Years

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• I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  People, Normal, Reactions

  "Madonna's Iconic Cone Bra Isn't The Only Kooky Bra Designed by Birthday Boy Jean Paul Gaultier" by Christina Perez, www.glamour.com. April 24, 2013.

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• I read, for the first time, of the Carolina Parakeet-a North American parakeet whose green, yellow and reddish-orange plumage appeared vivacious and altogether quite wonderful. As stunning as I found the hawk-chased conures, this bird astounded me even more. That the Carolina Parakeet was extinct simply added to my amazement.

  Christopher Cokinos

  Yellow, Orange, Bird

  Christopher Cokinos (2009). “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds”, p.12, Penguin

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• Anyone who has examined into the history of the theories of earth evolution must have been astounded to observe the manner in which the unique and the difficultly explainable has been made to take the place of the common and the natural in deriving the framework of these theories.

  William Herbert Hobbs

  Science, Unique, Earth

  William Herbert Hobbs (1921). “Earth Evolution and Its Facial Expression”

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• After 50 years, is it not clear that God has raised up new illnesses connected with fornication? From where do these things come if not from the hand of God? [In response to these diseases] The world was astounded, and people were terrified for a time, but they have not, to this day, observed the hand of God.

  John Calvin

  Hands, Years, People

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• ...Say somebody shot somebody....We...are so concerned about whether this evidence was admitted properly...(and) not recognize the intrusion into our sacred individuality that is being caused every time people turn on the faucet? ...I am astounded by how much untruth has been officially promulgated (pro fluoridation).

  John Flaherty

  Dark, People, Individuality

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• I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common. If you see it, black and white people, both sides look to see the differences, they don't look at what they have together. Men and women, and old and young, and so on. And this is a disease of the mind, the way I see it. Because in actual fact, men and women have much more in common than they are separated.

  Doris Lessing

  Black And White, Men, Differences

  "A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.

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• I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Mean, Men, Brain

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• I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.

  Doris Lessing

  People, Perspective, Looks

  "A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.

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• The Senior Tour is a good concept, although frankly I'm not astounded at its continued success. It gives a lot of guys an opportunity to extend their careers.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Senior, Opportunity, Careers

  The Golf Magazine Interview, www.golf.com. September, 1988.

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• I'm astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing; it should inhibit me from even beginning. But I get distracted and start doing something. What I achieve is not the product of an act of my will but of my will's surrender. I begin because I don't have the strength to think; I finish because I don't have the courage to quit. This book is my cowardice.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "The Book of Disquiet".

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• You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever get over it. But you'll be astounded to learn what the sea will do.' What do you mean?' she smiled. Well, love isn't a good sailor and it languishes on a sea voyage. You'll be surprised when you have the Atlantic between you and Larry to find how slight the pang is that before you sailed seemed intolerable.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Mean, Thinking, Sea

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• I have made mention of something I've found incredible a lot of times. I'm gonna remind you of it again. A TIME magazine cover back in the mid-1990s. The cover story on that issue of TIME magazine had the following headline Shock: Men and Women are Actually Born Different." When I saw that the first time, I was astounded. I cite it often, because I need to ask you a question: What must you think, what must you believe if you come across research that tells you men and women are born different?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I was a massive fan of 'Twin Peaks.' Massive. I don't know how any of us grew up in this age of television and weren't astounded, and saying that, I'm still shocked that that was on network television.

  Michelle Forbes

  Age, Fans, Television

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• Notes for a ballet, The Spell: ... Suddenly Sigmund hears the flutter of wings, and a group of wild swans flies across the moon ... Sigmund is astounded to see that their leader is part swan and part woman - unfortunately, divided lengthwise. She enchants Sigmund, who is careful not to make any poultry jokes.

  Woody Allen

  Humorous, Moon, Swans

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