Astounding Quotations

Mongolia is a country of rich and ancient heritage, unique culture and astounding natural beauty. It is a land of free and brave, peace-loving and hard-working people.

I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.

I probably saved more black lives as mayor of New York City than any mayor in the history of this city. And I did it by having to use police officers in black areas where there was an astounding amount of crime. If that crime was in white areas, police officers would be in white areas.

I have to say I find it totally astounding that my albums do as well as they do. It's quite extraordinary, and it's actually very touching for me for the albums to be received with such warmth.

It's important that the adults appreciate that young people are capable of doing really astounding work.

We've always been explorers. We've always wondered what's over that mountain or across that sea. I've always wondered what's out there. The fact that we now have something on another planet that's talking to us, that's pretty intelligent and showing us what it's like is astounding and exciting and who knows what we'll find up there.

We've always had periods when something came in vogue, ... This is different because of the Internet. It keeps on going and the riches just keep astounding everybody. All the traders that come up today naturally gravitate toward Internet stocks.

There are new technologies currently under development that are astounding there is always room for this category to grow. One of the big challenges when you deal with proprietary performance fabrics is to ensure that the costs involved with developing and producing the fabrics does not make the garments cost prohibitive to the consumer at the end of the day. We are careful to be sensitive to that for the benefit of our customer and we also understand which benefits our customer values as well.

When I do a film score, I am basically nothing more than a fancy pencil for hire. I don't own any of the music when I am - it belongs to the film company - and likewise, when I am done, even if I come up with something astounding that I may want to revisit... in the world of film composition, you can't do that.

I was real pleased. We had two to five swimmers in the top 12 in almost every event. That's just an astounding number.

I expect astounding things coming in the future, but we need a reset on the market projections and hype of today.

If we look at the past two centuries of economic history in Europe and the United States, we see an astounding pattern. Capital will accumulate in a tiny portion of the population, no matter what we do.

What is astounding is the scale of it all, ... Remember it is a very young garden . . . the great thing will be to see how it unfolds and develops.

It can be financially astounding in terms of retirement and health benefits. You need more citizen soldiers rather than professionals.

It is somewhat astounding when I think that in over four years, with various combinations of girls, we have taken first place every time in the 200 medley relay. That is a very impressive streak.

I think it's one of the most impressive things in tennis that's ever been done. To be playing 20 years at such a level is astounding in a sport where you're injured so much.

I think it's the only completely American sport that there is. Most of the team sports are a variation on the old medieval tournaments, but stock car racing is so American. It's astounding to me how many people are interested in stock car racing.

It is astounding how she broke free from her network. It was a big risk, but she came out winning.

That broadcast is the most astounding thing you'll ever hear. I decided to make the movie literally the second that hour was over.

That (DOT) chose in both rules to expand driving hours is astounding given its statutory mandate to make safety its highest priority and Congress's specific directive to the agency to reduce fatigue-related incidents.

Marseille's decision (to send the B team to Paris) is astounding and impossible to understand. Every possible measure has been taken to guarantee safety.

I thought it was astounding that a woman was censured for wanting to just take up photography. I thought, my, how the world has changed.

We continue to be grateful to members of the Charleston dinner committee for their astounding record of bringing business leaders whose insights are timely and relevant to the affairs of our state,

Today's networks are no longer just pipelines of data; customers are incorporating data, voice and video into their business operations at an astounding pace. The proliferation of Internet telephony and video-on-demand is not only changing the way people use information technology, but also how companies manage it.

We had no faith in (Cook) whatever. He was not even good for a day's work, and the idea of his making such an astounding claim as having reached the Pole was so ludicrous that, after our laugh, we dropped the matter altogether.

What's astounding to me is not that the guys have come up and helped. It's this year, guys have come up from Double-A and not (just) helped - I mean, they've produced. That's been shocking. You get a couple guys from Triple-A come up and help, that's very, very lucky.

What's astounding is that we've got high growth without inflation, ... there is a level of labor market tightness that will generate wage inflation.

As the astounding vastness of the universe becomes obscured, there is a throwback to a vision of a universe that essentially amounts to earth, or one's country, or state or city. Perspective becomes myopic.

The riders would not jump their horses in these conditions and what is very astounding is the powers that be don't read the FEI rulebook which says welfare of the horse above all,

You REAP what You SOW: Life is like a boomerang. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.

It's part of the reason it's so much fun. The way to conduct yourself, the way to keep things fun on an everyday basis is exciting and fun, and the level of professionalism. You can't match that. He's a professional's professional. It's astounding to watch the way he does it.

It was a great win. I'm excited for our team. In the first half we forced 13 turnovers. Our defense was so active. It was misleading. Arizona shot 58 percent. It's astounding they can shoot 58 percent and lose. Usually, you win when you shoot a percentage like that.

The volatility today (Tuesday) was astounding and the moves were very dramatic and quick.

This is just the way nature behaves and I find it astounding how tremendously lucky this country's been in the past 20 years in the lack of a major landfall. People need to view this as a tragedy, an event of nature that occasionally occurs, and we shouldn't blame anybody for it.

He's still hard to block. He does a great job of using his hands. He still plays with a lot of power. He still can rush and block people back to the quarterback. He's very instinctive on the field -- batting balls down and making a lot of plays. I think the guy is an astounding player and I think he's had a really good year doing what they expect him to do.

I didn't know what I saw -- swamp gas, space ship, sundog, weather balloon. What impressed me was my parents' fear of reporting the sighting. I realized that even in our allegedly rational age many things remain unspeakable -- damned, blasphemous. George Carlin can't do his comedy on networks because the comedy depends on taboo words. We remain governed by taboo to an astounding extent.

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This is music that still sounds astounding 10 years later and will continue to astound 10 years from now.

The DHL deal last week was perceived as a sweetheart deal in the trade. Generally speaking Boeing would have had everything to lose and to me it would have been astounding if they hadn't pulled out all the stops to win this order.

The memorial itself has been an afterthought. It's astounding to me that the only thing they have up there after four years are a couple of posters.