Dumbfound Quotes & Sayings

If you asked a sample of Americans "What is the temperature of Mars?" about 8% would say they don't know. — Herbert Stein

Hummingbird
Flitting, darting
A restless quest
To fuel a fire
That burns your breast
Seeking sweetness
For selfish glee
Bringing gifts
So heedlessly
Your touch a trigger
You fire life
Igniting beauty
In vibrant strife
To equal you
In colors bright
They dazzle, dumbfound
And delight
But in tableau
Their beauty ends
Enlivened only
By the wind
Whilst you with
Generous energy
Prove a lovely
Vibrant Persephone
Their season ends
Those blooms of spring
And hummingbird
On fragile wing
Too soon I fear
You will expire
Sweetness smolders
Consumed in fire. — Michael Sullivan

I do not know everything. I ought to keep learning. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I want to play everything. I want to be like Christian Bale: I want to be able to be Batman and then, like, his character in 'The Fighter.' That is what is so impressive about really good actors, that they can be character actors and leading men at the same time. — Ansel Elgort

Even weak men when united are powerful. — Friedrich Schiller

Salvation is not a matter of getting a reward that will make up for a rotten deal; it is a matter of entering by faith into the happiness - the hilarity beyond all liking and happening - that has been pounding on our door all along. — Robert Farrar Capon

Nothing would bother me more than if they found me strange at the office. I like to revel in the irony that they don't find me at all strange. I like the hair shirt of being regarded by them as their equal. I like the crucifixion of being considered no different. THere are martyrdoms more subtle than those recorded for the saints and hermits. There are torments of our mental awareness as there are of the body and of desire. And in the former, as in the latter, there's a certain sensuality ... — Fernando Pessoa

Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible. — Miguel De Cervantes

I love doing photo shoots and having memories. — Kim Kardashian

Other sink," I said, smiling at his presumption that he would get drawers at my place, too, and his scowl when he couldn't find them. — Sylvia Day

I love you. Remember. And someday, I will find you again. — Lauren Oliver

Nine people had died today. And it didn't matter what the FBI had thought of her actions. Her career as a negotiator had ended before it had even begun. — Elizabeth Heiter

When we turn around & come face to face with our destiny, we discover that words (spoken) are not enough. I know so many people who are brilliant speakers but are quite incapable of practising what they preach. It's one thing to describe a situation & quite another to experience it.
I realised a long time ago that a warrior in search of his dream must take his inspiration from what he actually does & not from what he imagines himself doing. — Paulo Coelho

For it is the young tree grown out of the old root which shall illuminate what the old tree has been in its wonders. — Jakob Bohme

After." In the Preface to Volume Three he is less severe, and more persuasive: the Communist regime survived "not because there has not been any struggle against it from inside, not because people docilely surrendered to it, but because it is inhumanly strong, in a way as yet unimaginable to the West." Among the elements of the state's strength was its capacity to astonish, to dumbfound - and thus to delude. As Conquest says, "the reality of Stalin's activities was often disbelieved because they seemed to be unbelievable . His whole style consisted of doing what had previously been thought morally or physically inconceivable. — Martin Amis

I am trying to be kind instead of right. — Matthew Quick