Quotes of Stupendous - somelinesforyou

“ Destiny is something men select; women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering. ”

- Harriet Rosenstein

“ The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous. ”

- Barbara Cartland

“ The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do. ”

- Erich Gutkind

“ Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything. ”

- Willie Dixon

“ The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle. ”

- Pietro Mascagni

“ America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they'd be smaller then these. ”

- Simon Hoggart

“ From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race. ”

- Jean de la Bruyere

“ I was disappointed in Niagara — most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life. ”

- Oscar Wilde
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