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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

Why would a tusk break the rules of normal development by expressing millions of sensory pathways that connect its nervous system to the frigid arctic environment? Such a finding is startling.

Martin Nweeia

It really is startling, the difference between two seats. It really kicks the game up to another level of excitement right on the glass. You can literally see into the eyes of the players. It can also be very exciting when out of the blue someone is checked into boards right in front of you and the glass gets rattled.

Peter Klett

Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap - and What Women Can Do About It.

Warren Farrell

Still, it would be a negative impact. But at this juncture, I think it's somewhat premature to panic about this yet. The impact, while initially startling, might not be as great if you look at the big picture.

Trav Robertson

If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

Madeleine L'Engle

It's startling in that the concept works, ... We need to study patients who are sicker.

Robert Bonow

When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs as you do, you can relax a little and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock, to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind, you draw large and startling figures.

Flannery O'Connor

The college undergraduate is a lot of things - many of them as familiar, predictable and responsible as the bounce of a basketball, and others as startling (and occasionally disastrous) as the bounce of a football.

John Sloan

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

Emily Dickinson

The discovery that early humans could have existed this far north this long ago was startling.

Chris Stringer

It's been startling, the number of people gravitating toward children's audio.

Tim Ditlow

It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

On March 7, to get this packet of information is a little startling.

Kevin Kelley

We expected the Justice Department to find some level of deficiency in these vests, but this level is startling.

Jim Pasco

So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.

Geena Davis

The response we've gotten and continue to get from certain elements of the gay community is just startling to me.

Daniel Lipman

The overlap was startling, really. There was a great deal of consensus on where to intervene.

James Lindsay

When people enter treatment, they are asked to identify the drug that has caused them to enter treatment. Alcohol has been losing ground for the past seven years. Heroin and other opiates have increased to a startling 24 percent (of those who enter treatment in Venango County).

Bonnie Summers

One of the startling findings for me working with these students is that they feel closer to us and the school than our resident students do.

John Gallagher

It's so startling to know that the permanent members of the Security Council of the United Nations are the biggest arms dealers in the world, so they are really the.

Andrew Niccol

Alvin had the most startling blue eyes and blond hair at the time. He also had an extraordinary physical grace that made him an actor early on.

Robert Brustein

The allegations are of quite startling brutality in the implementation of force-feeding. Yet there's been no independent medical evaluation, and there absolutely needs to be one.

Leonard Rubenstein

The majority holds that a baseball pitcher owes no duty to refrain from intentionally throwing a baseball at an opposing player's head. This is a startling conclusion.

Justice Joyce Kennard

The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.

Marquis De Custine

To the sound itself the conductor adds the italics and punctuation of gesture, of strained arms, of startling tautness of the shoulders, of brisk nod, of hands flung apart in some wild appeal to the universe.

Christopher Andreae

I was shocked and angry with the startling suggestion that I should send from my land, my realm, the woman I intended to marry.

Edward Viii