Startling Quotes

135 quotes by 126 authors

A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it. — Edwin Land
As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report. — Charles Bass
Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand as examples of… — Niles Eldredge
One of the most startling discoveries of my life was the realization that the Jesus that I love, the Jesus who died for me on… — Tony Campolo
If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look at time the… — Robert Grudin
Donna E. Smyth - adventures with words; she is always doing something new and unique. Beginning with her visceral morality, her stories are startling, nerve… — George Elliott Clarke
Several national tests have revealed the following startling statistics about why salespeople fail...15% Improper training both product and sales skills. 20% Poor verbal and written… — Jeffrey Gitomer
Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas. — Tracy K. Smith
Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change. — Susan Griffin
The city of Pittsburgh gleaming suddenly before her . . . so startling in its vastness and its beauty that she had gasped and slowed,… — Kim Edwards
The most startling aspect of the nutrition situation in India is that it is not much of an issue in public debates and electoral politics. — Jean Dreze
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change. — Quentin Crisp
Remember Killer Moth, the most ingenuous rogue ever to defy the dynamic duo, Batman and Robin ?Perhaps you recall how the weird beam from the… — Bob Kane
God knew where he was, but he asked so as to start a conversation with Adam and avoid startling him too much to reply. — Rashi
In the 1970's and in early 1980's, a startling discovery was made that almost every problem contains an element of solutions. — Insoo Kim Berg
As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it… — Anne Carson
The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can be… — Sarah Ban Breathnach
If you subscribe to the idea that #â€Ž addiction is a disease, it is startling to see how many of these children - paranoid, anxious,… — David Sheff
In TheColorful Apocalypse, Greg Bottoms explores the frontier between inspiration and psychosis with the expressive power, the passionate fervor, and the faithfully unflinching honesty for… — Madison Smartt Bell
It keeps startling me that at the beginning of this 21st century, at a time when we can . . . explore the depths of… — Thoraya Obaid

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