Startlingly Beautiful Quotes & Sayings

How dare you open a spaceman's helmet on an uncharted planet? My eyeballs could've been sucked from their sockets! — Cathy East Dubowski

None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses. — Mark Twain

When I unwrapped the moth from its funeral shroud, it was the same startlingly lovely creature as on the day I had entombed it. Everything about it seemed beautiful and perfect, and so utterly unchanged. — Arthur Golden

Your heart is startlingly beautiful, Sophie. — Fisher Amelie

She was a former Texan - proud, loud and stubborn. But you can't really be a former Texan. You can only move out of Texas. To be a former Texan would be like growing up in Italy, moving out and being formerly Italian. — Jeffrey Michelson

You've got to stop and ask yourself once in a while ... why some asinine politicians would quicker cut out social security than the space program ... Go figure. — Timothy Pina

A lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past. — Orson Scott Card

To love and be loved is the most natural expression of our being. — Deepak Chopra

Each of my novels features a protagonist undertaking a difficult personal journey. On the way, each of these characters - mostly female - discovers something about herself and at the same time makes an impact on other people's lives. — Juliet Marillier

You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time. It was something like that. From Oprah on an Oprah show. Then I believe my quote above was from Maya Angelou on the Oprah show, not Oprah herself. I had heard it before but it was on Oprah's show again 1-7-09 and she said Maya had said it. — Oprah Winfrey

I'm a first-generation Canadian. — Melanie Fiona

She looked like a somewhat frightened and helpless woman, and yet he knew she was a deadly assassin. The same as he was. She was like one of those startlingly beautiful creatures in the wild - colorful and attractive, but deadly when touched. — Lynn Raye Harris

And, Freedom, was I free? — Richard Adams

The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty. — Alexandra Fuller