“It's amazing how fast gold works.”
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
On building the clacks, at alt.fan.pratchett (18 June 2002) http://www.lspace.org/fandom/afp/timelines/discussions/building-the-clacks.html <br class="br">Usenet
Children of Gods, Scions of Apes
The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul (1994)
Context: How amazing time is, and how amazing we are. Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Yesterday we complained of time and feared it, but today we love and embrace it. Indeed, we have begun to perceive its purposes and characteristics, and to comprehend its secrets and enigmas.
“It's amazing how fast gold works.”
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
On building the clacks, at alt.fan.pratchett (18 June 2002) http://www.lspace.org/fandom/afp/timelines/discussions/building-the-clacks.html <br class="br">Usenet
“It's amazing how we can do things simultaneously, like talking and not listening.”
Saul Gorn (1912–1992) computer scientist
Source: Self-Annihilating Sentences, 1992, p. 11
“It's amazing how willpower can build walls.”
Yann Martel (1963) Canadian author best known for the book Life of Pi
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
Leo Tolstoy book The Kreutzer Sonata
Variant: What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Source: The Kreutzer Sonata
“Do it or don't. It's amazing how many things in life are that easy.”
Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
“It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.”
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist
Source: Marjorie's Three Gifts
“It is amazing how well the worst ones think of themselves, and how little the best ones do.”
John C. Wright (1961) American novelist and technical writer
Source: Titans of Chaos (2007), Chapter 22, “The Bubble Bath” (p. 300)
“Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine! Mine!”
Margaret Atwood book The Year of the Flood
Source: The Year of the Flood
Margaret J. Wheatley (1941) American writer
Source: Finding Our Way: Leadership For an Uncertain Time (2005), p. 262
“It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”
John Guare Landscape of the Body
Source: Landscape of the Body