Startling Quotes

135 quotes by 126 authors

And as we meet needs on earth, we are proclaiming a gospel that transforms lives for eternity. The point is not simply to meet a… — David Platt
It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so,… — Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a world of startling possibilities. — Charles Fletcher Dole
It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling… — Hannah Arendt
After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in a story. They… — Chris Priestley
The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that they had been… — Nicole Krauss
Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. — Alexander McQueen
There's nothing you can do about the past. But, you can do a great deal about your future. You don't have to be the same… — Jim Rohn
No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who… — Gertrude Stein
Jane Kindredâ€™s THE HOUSE OF ARKHANGEL'SK dazzles with its surreal blending of worlds. Lost angel Anazakia, last survivor of her murdered family, finds herself in… — Lynn Flewelling
From its first startling image, Orhans Inheritance will seep under your skin and leave an indelible mark upon your heart. What lucky readers we are… — Gayle Brandeis
...These healers...my intellect has been unable to assimilate their theories....But their facts are patent and startling; and anything that interferes with the multiplication of such… — William James
So the best marriages and the deepest relationships with God grow out of the startling discovery that there is nothing one can do to earn… — Mike Mason
You know it's always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is… — Brian De Palma
In PLATO AT THE GOOGLEPLEX, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein set out to showcase, in sometimes startling ways, the continuing relevance of a classic philosopher. But what's… — Michael Dirda
The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios - the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen… — Adam Gopnik
Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of… — William Safire
Nice writing isn't enough. It isn't enough to have smooth and pretty language. You have to surprise the reader frequently, you can't just be nice… — Anne Bernays
I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past… — Meghan O'Rourke
Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the… — Maurice Saatchi

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