Quotes About Astonishing

No, si ya se sabe. Siempre aparece alguien que no te esperas para nada.

His organizational and administrative talents in a criminal activity were accompanied by an astonishing 'inability to think'.

But that was considered extraordinary.

Tim's energy and ability to concentrate for long stretches always astonished me.

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

You can't conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the … appalling … strangeness

The naïveté of human beings is truly breathtaking

Most of 'Let the Great World Spin' is centered on the day in 1974 when Philippe Petit walked on a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center, creating an astonishing spectacle that intersects with the lives of many of the novel's multiple protagonists.

First of all, I find everything very astonishing. The astonishment that things can change so much over such a short span of time. And I also feel grateful that so many people worldwide love Sae-byeok as much as I love her.

It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess.

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The personality of Jesus emerged from the Gospels with astonishing consistency. Whenever they were written, they were written in the shadow of a personality so tremendous that Christians who may never have seen him knew him utterly: that strange mixture of unbearable sternness and heartbreaking tenderness.

I logged millions of miles with this body, and I hope you do the same with yours. The world is astonishing.

from the midst of this darkness a sudden light broke in upon me – a light so brilliant and wondrous, yet so simple, that while I became dizzy with the immensity of the prospect which it illustrated, I was surprised that among so many men of genius, who had directed their inquiries towards the same science, that I alone should be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret.

Some guys surprise you like that.

it was astonishing to discover that the lines of her shoulder were fragile and beautiful, and that the diamond band on the wrist of her naked arm gave her the most feminine of all aspects: the look of being chained.

An incentive is a bullet, a lever, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation.

Though our ignorance is vast (and always will be), our knowledge is astonishing, and growing daily.

There was an unbelievable creature about a foot high looking at me; it then quickly turned and passed into the bathroom. It looked very much like a large lizard walking on its hind legs.

When the Bitcoin white paper emerged in 2008, it was completely revolutionary. The amount of concepts that had to come together in just the right way - computer science, cryptography, and economic incentives - was astonishing.

The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

So astonishing was his physique that another man unabashedly described young Abraham Lincoln as "a cross between Venus and Hercules.

'White Teeth' has far too many characters, and its plot is tortured. But Smith has an astonishing intellect. She writes sharp dialogue for every age and race - and she's funny as hell.