Astounds Quotes

#1. The simplicity of living astounds me.
But it's the terror of death that devours me.

L.B. Simmons

#2. You read me so well without me ever having to say the words. It astounds me. Perhaps we were made for each other. You're making me a believer, my love.

R.K. Lilley

#3. It astounds me that out of all the flowers in the garden, the rose would fall in love with the thorn.

H R Brock

#4. It always astounds me that over the course of my career, and having lived in four comedy cities - New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles - there's very few people I haven't run into.

Marc Maron

#5. The thought that I might soon hear my "voice" say, "I'm hungry" as many times as I want it to astounds me. Realizing that I might be able to ask, "What's on the TV?" amazes me. These simple words are my own personal Mount Everests, to think I might soon conquer them is almost unimaginable.

Martin Pistorius

#6. That someone can want something out of another person who gives absolutely nothing in return astounds me.

Melina Marchetta

#7. When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.

Clement Of Alexandria

#8. About every six to eight months, I run into a man who astounds me sexually, but between escapades, I'm celibate, which I don't think is any big deal. After two unsuccessful marriages, I find myself keeping my guard up, along with my underpants.

Sue Grafton

#9. A love astounds us or a pain consumes us and we forget that we glow on our own.

Mark Nepo

#10. To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.

Deb Caletti

#11. What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

Ernest Bevin

#12. I don't know why the world has to be populated by so many unpleasant people. I really don't. It really takes an effort to be rude, too. The amount of energy people expend on being a jerk astounds me sometimes.

Meg Cabot

#13. It still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.

Jane Smiley

#14. I love that works of art are printed so that anyone can buy them. The variety of what they put on little postcards astounds me.

Leonard Lauder

#15. My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me.

Henry Adams

#16. It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.

Jules Renard

#17. Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan - and he knew the game, which still astounds me, but I have always had a soft spot for him because of it.

Hunter S. Thompson

#18. The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#19. I still can't believe [ Muhammad Ali ] knows my name. It astounds me he knows who I am. I first met Ali in 1976. I was locked up in a juvenile home and he came to visit. I've never forgotten it.

Mike Tyson

#20. I think he [Raul] is the greatest player to have ever played the game. He walks on the turf and astounds. It is utterly amazing.

Luis Figo

#21. The body's a mirror of heaven: Its energies make angels jealous. Our purity astounds seraphim. Devils shiver at our nerve.

Rumi

#22. It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Marlene Dietrich

#23. Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

Chuck Jones

#24. Spanking is a one handed round of applause in appreciation of a magnificent Ass.

Anonymous

#25. Empower yourself by empowering others.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#26. The most common self-inflicted put-down is 'I am not a pastor-I am just a layperson.' This is all part of a clever satanic scheme to neutralize apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers along with the entire army of disciples, already positioned in the marketplace.

Ed Silvoso

#27. For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds /
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

Wallace Stevens

#28. I think progress is a sort of comfortable disease, and we've got a media that says entertainment and celebrity, which isn't bad in itself but it stops the real issues coming forward.

Anita Roddick

#29. As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.

Henry Ward Beecher

#30. If you die, Lily ... I'll steal your soul and take you to the Abyss, where I will keep you in my magical dungeon so you can never escape.

Nalini Singh

#31. If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

Iris Chang

#32. All by all and deep by deep and more by more they dream their sleep noone and anyone earth by april wish by spirit and if by yes

E. E. Cummings

#33. Alys told her that it was the way of women, to tote a newborn and then adjust as it grew until by the time the child was plump and heavy, the weight seemed naught.

Lois Lowry

#34. Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

Allan Bloom

#35. Before change can be managed, it has to be sparked.

Amber Naslund