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Astonishingly, American taxpayers now will be forced to finance a multi-billion dollar jobs program in Iraq. Suddenly the war is about jobs. We export our manufacturing jobs to Asia, and now we plan to export our welfare jobs to Iraq, all at the...

Quote by Ron Paul about home, americans, war

We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

Quote by Shana Alexander about opinion, miracle

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

Quote by Henry B. Adams about ignorance, education, nothing

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

Quote by Placido Domingo about career

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

Quote by Eugen Ionescu

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about comedy, wealth, magic, country

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed, for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about style, people

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about religion, being, things

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Quote by Mark Twain about character, rightness, people

I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.

Quote by Alexander Fleming about medicine, workers, influence, advice, chance

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

Quote by André Maurois about literature, love