Stunned Quotes - Page 6

• When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, it is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough.

  Robert Jordan

  Rain, Long, Wish

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.484, Macmillan

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• In trying to imagine this world, I kept coming back to Michel Aflaq. He's a Christian Arab, a Syrian, who ends up finding his home in Iraq and is buried there - I was stunned to see his tomb is right smack down in the Green Zone.

  Elliott Colla

  Christian, Home, Iraq

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As I get ready to buy a new computer, I'm stunned at all the many micro drafts, of different chapters and scenes and whatnot, that litter the hard drive.

  Alexander Chee

  Different, Computer, Scene

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We grew up as this family of deniers. And people who knew us for years were stunned when "The Great Santini" came out because we had this appearance of being this happy, large, smiling family. We were taught to smile, put the best face forward. And so when the book ended up - Dad swatting us around the room, no one believed me.

  Terry Gross

  Dad, Book, Years

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• So when the book came out, my mother stunned us all by leaving my father. I think three months before the book came out, she left my father the day he retired from the Marine Corps. They had a parade and march, and she came home and left.

  Terry Gross

  Mother, Father, Book

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• Kids have no idea when they're drinking soda what they're really drinking, and a lot of them are stunned when they learn that drinking a Big Gulp is like taking a big jar of sugar and just pouring it down. There are 50 teaspoons of sugar in a 64-ounce Big Gulp.

  Eric Schlosser

  Drinking, Kids, Ideas

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Rob McElhenney who runs 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.' That show absolutely kills me and I am stunned by the consistency of greatness it has maintained over what is now a record breaking amount of seasons ... How do you do that for so many years? My 14-year-old daughter and I watch it together and we both laugh crazy hard.

  Louis C. K.

  Running, Daughter, Crazy

  Source: variety.com

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• I was thoroughly stunned by the quantity and quality of the evidence for Christ.

  Lee Strobel

  Quality, Christ, Evidence

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The reaction I got from Sônia [Braga] in less than 48 hours after I sent her the script [Aquarius] was so genuine that it left me stunned. Often when you show people scripts, you get polite, absent-minded reactions, as well as exclamations of "What the f - k is this?".

  Sonia Braga

  Aquarius, People, Scripts

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• [Miranda Hentoff] was teaching once at Lincoln Center, and the hall was full of other professionals - musicians, professors, teachers. And she was explaining how [Béla] Bartok composed his second piano concerto. And she explained how the music was interwoven with the rhythms and what he had in his mind. And I was just stunned. This is a kid who used to work - on a piano with a cracked keyboard.

  Nat Hentoff

  Teacher, Teaching, Kids

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?

  Marianne Moore

  Animal, Skins, Welfare

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• The more I study the wealthy.. in an effort to learn how to help more people around the world become one of them.. I'm stunned by how many people are actually not rich.

  David Bach

  Learning, People, Effort

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• My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of strep. As I stood stunned in a church at her memorial, one of the hardest things I heard someone say was, 'I'm going to go home and hug my child a little tighter.' 'Well, good for you,' I thought. 'I'm going to go home and scream.'

  Ann Hood

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any.If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned - would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Discovery, Would Be

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.59

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• I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Japan, Ideas, People

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• I wake you up and as I stare in your face, you seem stunned.
  Remember me? The one you got your idea from?

  Rakim

  Rap, Ideas, Hip Hop

  Song: I Ain't No Joke

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• The smell of death overwhelmed us even before we passed through the stockade. More than 3200 naked, emaciated bodies had been flung into shallow graves. Others lay in the streets where they had fallen. ... Eisenhower's face whitened into a mask. Patton walked over to a corner and sickened. I was too revolted to speak. For here death had been so fouled by degradation that it both stunned and numbed us.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Smell, Holocaust, Naked

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• Health experts working on a union backed screening program to detect bladder cancer in a Georgia chemical plant were stunned when the local (ACS) cancer society not only didn't support the program, but tried to discourage participation in it.

  Jack Anderson

  Cancer, Dark, Support

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• And at five o'clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in the van. I was stunned by the beauty of that country.

  Erika Slezak

  Beauty, Country, Morning

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• This earth is my sister; I love her daily grace, her silent daring, and how loved I am. How we admire this strength in each other, all that we have lost, all that we have suffered, all that we know: We are stunned by this beauty, and I do not forget: what she is to me, what I am to her.

  Susan Griffin

  Grace, Earth, Forget

  Susan Griffin (2015). “Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her”, p.190, Open Road Media

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• The ways in which people are damaged are the ways in which they're strong. It's what makes people interesting - what they've overcome and how, and what they haven't and how that's become a good thing. Almost everyone's life is both a gorgeous story and a tragedy. I think being alive is really, really hard, and I'm constantly stunned and amazed by people who make it interesting and beautiful.

  Sarah Polley

  Strength, Beautiful, Strong

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• When I first encountered the poems of Jon Woodward, I was stunned into the state that is my life's joy-I was in the presence of the inimitable. Uncanny Valley extends that experience-almost into another dimension. These apocalyptic, pixilated poems forge a mythology of our ravaged culture, one that might have been written in the future. If you want poetry to give you a persimmon on a plate, look elsewhere; if you want to know what happens when seven trees fall on the highway and the story is told by a stutterer, this is the book, and it could only have been written by Woodward.

  Mary Ruefle

  Book, Fall, Giving

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• What an honor that Stephen Prouty got nominated for best makeup and hairstyling for Jackass Presents Bad Grandpa. Am I as stunned as everyone else we didn’t get the nod for best picture? Well of course, duh, but I won’t let that take away from my happiness for Steve, Tony Gardner, and our whole makeup team. Wahoo!

  Johnny Knoxville

  Team, Makeup, Grandpa

  "Oscar Nominee Reactions: Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep And Julia Roberts Respond To Nods". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 16, 2014.

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• If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.

  Bill Gates

  Past, People, Awful

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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