Abrupt Quotes

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Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material triumphs… — Arnold J. Toynbee
At first I probably seem very abrupt, but I like efficiency. There's work and there's play, and I always think: 'Let's get the work over… — Kathy Reichs
And that is what is behind the abrupt rise in climate change denial among hardcore conservatives: they have come to understand that as soon as… — Naomi Klein
The beauty of nature insists on taking its time. Everything is prepared. Nothing is rushed. The rhythm of emergence is a gradual, slow beat; always… — John O'Donohue
The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time. — Don Henley
In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in the face, and… — Paul Auster
They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly… — Jane Austen
Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening… — Daniel Woodrell
From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.… — Ray Bradbury
Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and… — Charles Robert Maturin
It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and you memorize the… — Steve Almond
Loving is a journey with water and with stars, with smothered air and abrupt storms of flour: loving is a clash of lightning-bolts and two… — Pablo Neruda
Adrian suddenly made an abrupt turn onto a side street we'd nearly driven past. I jerked upright as he clipped the curb. "What are you… — Richelle Mead
I don't like girls in the daytime,' he said shortly, and then thinking this a bit abrupt, he added: 'But I like you.' He cleared… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kaizen is like a hotbed that nurtures small and ongoing changes, while innovation is like magma that appears in abrupt eruptions from time to time — Masaaki Imai
REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that… — Ambrose Bierce
I came- though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of… — Albert Einstein
Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life-yet more jargon for 'God… — Michael Shermer
You are angry with your neighbor, you despise him, do not like to speak peaceably and lovingly to him, because there is something harsh, abrupt,… — John of Kronstadt

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