Startlingly Beautiful Quotes

#1. Your heart is startlingly beautiful, Sophie.

Fisher Amelie

#2. She looked like a somewhat frightened and helpless woman, and yet he knew she was a deadly assassin. The same as he was. She was like one of those startlingly beautiful creatures in the wild - colorful and attractive, but deadly when touched.

Lynn Raye Harris

#3. The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.

Alexandra Fuller

#4. Yes, I have over the years done a lot of the audio books, which are just plain reading.

Robert Rankin

#5. I went to Harvard for examination with two men not as well prepared as I. Both passed easily, and I flunked, having sat through two or three examinations without being able to write a word.' The same happened at Yale, Both schools turned him down. He never forgot it.

Erik Larson

#6. Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.

Veronica Roth

#7. When I unwrapped the moth from its funeral shroud, it was the same startlingly lovely creature as on the day I had entombed it. Everything about it seemed beautiful and perfect, and so utterly unchanged.

Arthur Golden

#8. I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.

Isaac Asimov

#9. We're still a sexophobic society, afraid of the wrong things for the wrong reasons.

Mary Calderone