It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live
Quotes about astounds (6 Quotes)
When I ask him these questions and he answers, I haven't got the faintest idea what he's going to say, and what he says astounds me with his wisdom. It is so much more that I know.
It astounds me that good, responsible white people paid for this show.
The scale of the organization astounds me. They had men carry kits with pieces 10 feet long and 8 to 12 inches thick across the desert to reassemble into ships on the edge of a sea that is still difficult to sail today. To have the manpower and supply line to equip the shipyard there and sail five or so ships on the Red Sea, and to have the knowledge to use the currents and winds to return safely, would be tough today, and they achieved it without GPS, cell phones or computers, not to mention the combustion engine.
However often we turn to it the Koran at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence.... Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.
It astounds me in a way, and I don't mean that in a patronizing way. Everyone is going to make their own choices. It's too bad so many guys do it, but I'm not going to be the den mom and say, 'You shouldn't be doing that.' The thing is that everybody knows the risks in doing that, or should know.