Abruptly Quotes
75 quotes by 69 authors
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your…
— P T Barnum
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Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual findings…
— Ernst Mayr
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The experiment left no doubt that, as far as accuracy of measurement went, the resistance disappeared. At the same time, however, something unexpected occurred. The…
— Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
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The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an…
— Frederick Soddy
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All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate…
— Barack Obama
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MSNBC has abruptly ended their relationship with Keith Olbermann, and according to his contract he's not allowed back on television for at least six months.…
— Conan O'Brien
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Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire audience waves its…
— Wyndham Lewis
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We would never move forward in the face of negative emotion. There are many people who would teach you otherwise. They say, you've got to…
— Esther Hicks
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In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.
— Sergio Leone
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Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend…
— Andrew Solomon
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Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger,
— Andrew Solomon
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Other seasons come abruptly but ask so little when they do. Winter is the only one that has to be relearned.
— Verlyn Klinkenborg
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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth…
— Walter Benjamin
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Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole community. It was…
— Max Nordau
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I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.
— Craig Mundie
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Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps.
— Ernest Bramah
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I found earthquakes, even when I was in them, deeply satisfying, abruptly revealed evidence of the scheme in action. That the schemes could destroy the…
— Joan Didion
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It was a tough situation. A fight that nobody expected to end so abruptly for him because he was really a great fighter. I felt…
— Roy Jones Jr.
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A Chinese paleontologist lectures around the world saying that recent fossil finds in his country are inconsistent with the Darwinian theory of evolution. His reason:…
— Phillip E. Johnson
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It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light.…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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