Startled Quotes

117 quotes by 98 authors

Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be… — Frederick Buechner
The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming. — Sun Tzu
The harder we look at our aches and ailments, the more we will be startled by the painful truths they are trying to convey about… — Marion Woodman
If you could hear the insane stuff going on in my head, it would scare the hell out of you. Probably. Or fascinate you. Depends… — Jenny Lawson
When we are relaxed and reasonable content, we are naturally wise. We accept that life is unpredictable, unreliable. We say jokingly or philosophically, "Nothing is… — Sylvia Boorstein
The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes-- Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me, Yet still they crawl offensive… — Colley Cibber
In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to… — George Orwell
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I wrapped a movie called 'Zombieland,' in which I was constantly under assault by zombies, then flew to New York, still very much in character.… — Woody Harrelson
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless… — Marcel Marceau
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction… — W. Somerset Maugham
It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem… — David Rockefeller
Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic… — George Will
Frodo drew himself up, and again Sam was startled by his words and his stern voice. 'On the Precious? How dare you?' he said. 'Think!… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least… — Edith Wharton
The rose fell into his lap, and he looked up, startled. Mimi grinned. "Hey handsom" Mimi sent. "What's up?" Jack replied, without speaking. "Just thinking… — Melissa de la Cruz
It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing.… — Khaled Hosseini

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