Startle Quotes
40 quotes by 37 authors
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Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders may…
— Arthur Balfour
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But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be…
— Nikola Tesla
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He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be…
— Confucius
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There is great danger, yea, many times most danger, in the smallest sins... Greater sins do sooner startle the soul, and awaken and rouse up…
— Thomas Brooks
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I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle…
— James Laughlin
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Though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and will eventually startle us back to the truth of…
— Rumi
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When did the business community in America become so sensitive? ... that we have to treat like some type of rare exotic animal - don't…
— Bill Maher
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Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at your…
— Maria Shriver
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Bears, dragons, tempestuous on mountain and river, Startle the forest and make the heights tremble. Clouds darken beneath the darkness of rain, streams pale with…
— Li Bai
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Other intelligent life-forms will differ greatly in appearance - they may resemble the creature in E.T. or startle us with their beauty - but life…
— Frank Drake
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The falling apart of a man's life should make more noise. It should startle passesrby with its Sturm and Drang. It ought to sound like…
— Kristin Hannah
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I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics…
— Zola Budd
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It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.
— Nobuo Uematsu
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Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially…
— Emanuel Lasker
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I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew.
— William Carlos Williams
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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
— Walter Pater
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However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are…
— Nobuo Uematsu
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When Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation- 'Tis said (for I'll not answer above ground For any…
— Lord Byron
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