#astonishing

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#astonishing #governed #how #little #mankind

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. ↗

— Henry Adams

#amount #astonishing #education #facts #form

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it. ↗

— Dinah Maria Mulock

#astonishing #catch #day #during #lot

Everything is so fragile. There's so much conflict, so much pain...you keep waiting for the dust to settle and then you realize this is it; the dust is your life going on. If happy comes along--that weird, unbearable delight that's actual happy--I think you have to grab it while you can. You take what you can get, 'cause it's here, and then...gone. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#joss-whedon #shadowcat #life

Well, I think people don't recognise my face because I'm so much older now, but it is astonishing that people can recognise a voice. I do sometimes get recognised, and indeed a lot of people do come and see me. ↗

— Tom Baker

#because #come #face #get #i

I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#conceived #could #ever #felt #film

Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#big #come #everyone #hats #mexicans

My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#called #climb #compete #could #faster

The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric. ↗

— James Broughton

#gift #joy #lyric #most #muses

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ↗

— John Bulwer

#astonishing #feels #how #little #loves