Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Darwin

Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.

Jane Austen

I am all astonishment.

Charles Baudelaire

That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.

Eugene Ionesco

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

Cassandra Clare

He produced a handkerchief—crisply folded—and handed it to her. She took it with silent astonishment. She’d never before known anyone who carried a handkerchief.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.

Theodore Roethke

Live in a perpetual great astonishment.

Thaddeus Stevens

Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.

Enid Bagnold

I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living.

Jim Kuhn

Surprisingly, many of our clients who are in their 50s are already planning ahead and incorporating design elements to help in the aging process.

Nancy Stoner

We need more federal help for local communities to control runoff and update their aging sewage systems.

Katsuya Okada

Japan faces problems of decreasing population, an aging society and increasing national debts. Mr. Koizumi sounds as if life will be all rosy if the postal service is privatized, but no one takes what he says seriously.

David Richardson

The answer to the challenges presented by personnel changes and aging deals is to make sure that long-term co-promotion leadership is addressed at the outset of deals. Both companies will want to ensure that partners are not only committed to the deal at its launch, but five or seven years down the road as well.

Kurt Sanger

Lithium-ion's capacity to hold a charge declines over time -- they start aging the minute they're off the production line.

George Soros

I think I lost my touch some time ago. I'm like an aging boxer that should not go into the ring,

Jose Gonzalez

I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.

Courtney Stadd

It is burdened with old and aging infrastructure, frayed at the edges, costly, some times unreliable, ... ...any misstep in human spaceflight could spell a very long hiatus in human driven exploration spaceflight in the U.S. So this underscores the need to realize that NASA cannot succeed alone in pursuing the exploration vision.

Frank Moss

I am especially thrilled to be working closely with an incredibly creative and passionate group of scientists, artists, designers and engineers who constitute the faculty and students of the lab. I see this exceptional community working together over the next decade to overcome some of the world's most pressing societal problems -- from providing improved health care to an aging population, to devising inexpensive digital tools for developing economies, to changing the way children learn.