Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
Is it not astonishing that the love of repose keeps us in continual agitation?
The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
It's astonishing how quickly cultural references change. Each new generation of parents grows up with a new slate of cultural understanding, television shows, and unique parental issues. The biblical principles remain the same, however, so this was a slight reworking, not a major overhaul.
It is astonishing to realize that until Galileo performed his experiments on the acceleration of gravity in the early seventeenth century, nobody questioned Aristotle's falling balls. Nobody said, Show Me!
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. . . . We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity.
Nothing of real worth can be obtained without courageous working. Man owes his growth chiefly to the active striving of the will, that encounter with difficulty which he calls effort; and it is astonishing to find how often results apparently impracticable are then made possible.
The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars.
When we look at the astonishing material achievements of the West. we see these things as the result, not of compulsion or government action or the superior wisdom of a few, but of that system of competition and free enterprise, rewarding success and penalising failure, which enables every individual to participate by his private decisions in shaping the future of his society.
But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.
Things can never be as they were. It's astonishing how we comment on change, as if change is something remarkable. On the contrary, not to change is unnatural, against nature.
I feel vulnerable to the astonishing beauty of being alive and to Mother Nature.
We don't have to look far for miracles because they're all around us. Everything is astonishing. The universe on it's surface is alive with mystery.
The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.
It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.