Startlingly Quotes

13 quotes by 13 authors

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. — Henry David Thoreau
As you pass from sunlight into darkness and back again every hour and a half, you become startlingly aware how artificial are thousands of boundaries… — Rusty Schweickart
As political theorist Michael Parenti points out, historians often overlook Fascism's economic agenda--the partnership between Big Capital and Big Government--in their analysis of its authoritarian… — Richard Heinberg
A dancer must have tremendous personality. A God like Christ and even a godman like Rajneesh had some personality. Combination of talent, dedication, creativity and… — Yamini Krishnamurthy
Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage,… — Annie Dillard
All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters down to the… — Quentin Crisp
Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever. — Ken Auletta
When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had… — M H Abrams
Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive. — Nigel Farage
The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind. — Steven Pinker
Jake's mouth found mine, his lips molding hot and soft to my own. His tongue tentatively tested the seal of my lips; I parted them… — Josh Lanyon
He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left. — Douglas Adams
The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and… — Alexandra Fuller

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13 authors contributed a total of 13 Startlingly Quotes as follows: