Amazed Quotes - Page 24

• My mother died yesterday, yesterday many years ago. You know, what amazed me the most the next day after her leaving was the fact that the buildings were still in place, the streets were still full of cars running, full of people who were walking, seemingly ignoring that my whole world has just disappeared." (rough translation)

  Marc Levy

  Mother, Running, Years

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• As a woman experiment and observe. Observe yourself as you go through a day. You will be amazed to discover the number and variety of things you do just on the physical level to control, or at least pass without being hassled.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Numbers, Enlightenment

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• One way to develop faith and confidence is simply to practice using it. If I were to ask you whether you're confident that you can tie your own shoes, I'm sure you could tell me with perfect confidence that you can. Why? Only because you've done it thousands of times! So practice confidence by using it consistently, and you'll be amazed at the dividends it reaps in every area of your life.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Practice, Shoes

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• You'd be amazed at how much power women have over men - and the basic control is nagging... Men are very simple creatures, like puppies.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Simple, Nagging

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• Great,” Simon said. “Maybe I’ll even make it back before my mother notices I’m gone. What’s the time difference between here and Manhattan?” “You have a mother?” Aline looked amazed.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Differences, Gone

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• But an escape less self-depreciating was taken by Lord Westbury, who, it is said, rebuffed a barrister's reliance upon an earlier opinion of his Lordship: "I can only say that I am amazed that a man of my intelligence should have been guilty of giving such an opinion". If there are other ways of gracefully and good-naturedly surrendering former views to a better considered position, I invoke them all.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Taken, Men, Should Have

  "McGrath v. Kristensen, 340 U.S. 162, 178". Concurring opinion, 1950.

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