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«A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I'd said something cool, but I was stunned.»
Author: Jason Biggs | About: Men and Women | Keywords: apple pie, PIE, stun, stunned, stunning
«In times of change, of Zeitgeist, when the accompanying need for new orientation to new conditions the psyche is stunned into activity- Sensitive souls receive the impact of these activities from the psychic depths»
«The whole peninsula remains what it has always been: one of the last great wildernesses of the world, a place of stunning beauty and harsh reality where history, religion and modern politics come together as nowhere else.»
«Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.»
«The trumpet does no more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility»
«The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.»
«People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.»
Author: Ralph Nader (Activist, Lawyer) | About: People | Keywords: data, files, stun, stunned, stunning
«The beautiful thing about older people is their ability to cut the fat off of conversation. When they talk, they don't go on forever and ever. They say what they have to say, and that's it. That was my grand dad. Some of the things he said stunned me, but his words were logical. I'll never forget them.»
«People eat what they believe to be sweet, but it turns out to be bitter in taste. They attach their affections to brothers and friends, uselessly engrossed in corruption. They vanish without a moment's delay; without God's Name, they are stunned and amazed.»
«If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up again with my studies; if the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.»

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