Startled Quotes

117 quotes by 98 authors

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to… — Henry Adams
She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me. — Raymond Chandler
For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and… — Frederick Douglass
Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying… — Sun Tzu
Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns - where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is… — Malcolm X
she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned… — Lewis Carroll
Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old… — Henry David Thoreau
What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps. — Christopher Hitchens
He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new… — Jack Kroll
Frazier soaked it all up like a sponge. When they arrived in Manila it was the same story. Ali poured scorn on his opponent. Humiliated… — Muhammad Ali
Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church… — John Henry Newman
I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person… — Albert Einstein
I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist. — Ernest Rutherford
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
It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen. — Yahoo Serious
I am startled when people are themselves and are not my thoughts of them. — Harold Brodkey
I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a… — Galway Kinnell
It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob… — Douglas Adams
Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants will react in… — Abraham Maslow
That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and… — Richard Bach

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