Startling Quotes

135 quotes by 126 authors

If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes… — Madeleine L'Engle
It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those thingsâ€”a… — Raymond Carver
If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it;… — Flannery O'Connor
The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
This is the very boring part of eating disorders, the aftermath. When you eat and hate that you eat. And yet of course you must… — Marya Hornbacher
Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from… — Virginia Woolf
Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between… — David Sedaris
Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of… — Walt Disney
Jesus!" Luke exclaimed. "Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling. — Cassandra Clare
One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it… — Regina Doman
Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth is, life itself,… — Brenda Ueland
Our consciousness, a startling outgrowth of the universe, is possibly its most important part, the fraction of existence that can think, feel, marvel at itself. — Alan Moore
I like the Cyclostyle ink; it is so inky. I do not think there is anyone who takes quite such a fierce pleasure in things… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or… — Mervyn Peake
Miss Tarabotti was not one of life's milk-water misses--in fact, quite the opposite. Many a gentleman had likened his first meeting with her to downing… — Gail Carriger
the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs,… — D. H. Lawrence
What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the soft sleekness under… — Doris Lessing
Sirius's gaunt face broke out into the first true smile Harry had seen upon it. The difference it made was startling, as though a person… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Let me peer out at the world through your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder, or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.) Let me see… — Naomi Shihab Nye

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