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When you actually see Barack Obama, it's startling how slight he is and how young he looks. — Simon Hoggart

A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods. — Robert Henri

When information rubs against information the results are startling and effective. The perrenial quest for involvement, fill-in, takes many forms. — Marshall McLuhan

When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result. — Marshall McLuhan

Luther's teaching was recognised by thousands to be no startling novelty, but something which they had always at heart believed, — Thomas M. Lindsay

The miracle is this: that you will rise in the morning and be able to see again the startling beauty of the day. — William Kent Krueger

Startling as this may sound, the truth is that many children read for a remarkably small percentage of the school day. — Michael J. Schmoker

He was so easygoing, she forgot he could be deadly. And startling as his anger was, it gave her another key to understanding him. — Suzanne Enoch

It is a startling thing, the need to feel utterly believed. — Alan Cumming

The experience of the human, male or female, cannot be completely defined by one startling, surprising, or gigantic life experience. — Jenny Slate

My next startling discovery: flaming breath is hot. — Rick Riordan

And this is the only really startling thing about the evil of the world: not that so much of it exists, but that nobody ever really expects it. — Andrew Pyper

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. — Joseph Stiglitz

Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be. — Walt Mossberg

Jasper!" Casey shouts, startling the young woman. "My cargo is talking to me! — Nathan Reese Maher

Oh, my God! Gwen suddenly burst out, startling the bears in the room, which made the rest of the predators nervous. — Shelly Laurenston

You can make startling changes you can't even conceive of right now, if you just give yourself half a chance. — Jim Rohn

An experience can be as startling as the first awareness of a stranger walking by your side at night. You are the stranger. — Beryl Markham

New York is this cacophony - a collection of radical differences, an agreement of non sequiturs. The diversity and intensity are startling. — Thom Mayne

When you reach a certain age, suddenly there are lots of people younger than you, which is really startling. — Fran Lebowitz

The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us. — James Russell Lowell

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change. — Quentin Crisp

Something deep inside me lurched.
The stirring was as startling and unpleasant as it was thrilling and revolutionary. — Stephanie Perkins

Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas. — Tracy K. Smith

Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change. — Susan Griffin

They were startling gray, like storm clouds; pretty, but intimidating, too, as if she were analyzing the best way to take me down in a fight. — Rick Riordan

There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people. — Mary Augusta Ward

Mort(e) is wonderful and weird, never saccharine and always startling. — Cat Rambo

It is a world of startling possibilities. — Charles Fletcher Dole

The startling reality of things is my discovery every single day. — Fernando Pessoa

A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery. — Sherley Anne Williams

The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us. — Origen

In the 1970's and in early 1980's, a startling discovery was made that almost every problem contains an element of solutions. — Insoo Kim Berg

I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing. — Ann Patchett

Finding Louisa in her drawing-room was like discovering a kitten in the cupboard--not necessarily unwelcome, but still startling. — Steven Harper

STARTLING & INVENTIVE ... This is not a movie that lets go of you easily. — A.O. Scott

Silas straightened in his seat, clearly uneasy. "This is so bad for my asthma," he said, the familiar phrase coming from him startling her. — Kim Harrison

Tell me something wonderful- a story that's startling and marvelous. — Julie Eshbaugh

A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it. — Edwin Land

She wasn't used to kisses that were simultaneously startling and wonderful, casual and memorable. Her world was so much smaller than that. — Sarah Cross

...the past shooting out at me like sparrows for the hedgerow, startling and inescapable. — Paula Hawkins

Jesus!" Luke exclaimed.
"Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling. — Cassandra Clare

Failure was startling, really. So startling that I hardly noticed it at all. — Jane Smiley

She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime. — Jodi Picoult

Their banter was rich and comfortable, their teasing intimate and profound; their 'I love you' without the use of those startling words. — Sarah Winman

I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling. — Bette Davis

Love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.
A Brave and Startling Truth. — Maya Angelou

Whenever he gives advice it is always something as startling as an epigram, and yet as practical as the Bank of England. — G.K. Chesterton

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place. — Mira Nair

I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets. — Mark Twain

The most startling aspect of the nutrition situation in India is that it is not much of an issue in public debates and electoral politics. — Jean Dreze

Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism — Khaled Hosseini

It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors. — Eric Hoffer

It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible. — Eric Hoffer

Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag. — Tennessee Williams

I always feel a fool when in the company of people who work for a living. It brings out my startling lack of common sense. — Stephen Fry

God knew where he was, but he asked so as to start a conversation with Adam and avoid startling him too much to reply. — Rashi

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. — Emily Dickinson

came bounding towards her, startling — Carol Drinkwater

It was startling and humbling to realise how much time you could spend with people to whom you meant so little and vice versa — Mhairi McFarlane