Sudden Quotes

1085 Sudden quotes by 866 unique authors

Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal. — Ernest K. Gann
One day you're there and then all of a sudden, there's less of you. And you wonder where that part went. If it's living somewhere… — Elisabeth Moss
I was eleven years old when I saw a woman for the first time, and I was seized by such sudden surprise that I burst… — Mia Couto
It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end. — Thomas Hobbes
The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many species which now exist or… — Charles Darwin
Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in… — Andrew Motion
In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and his limb muscles.… — Philippe Halsman
Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space… — Graham Swift
Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery. — Russell Kirk
I do what most women do. I meet someone and some of it's right, maybe he looks right, or has the right job, or the… — Jane Green
Thus, just as animals of many species, including man, are disposed to respond with fear to sudden movement or a marked change in level of… — John Bowlby
Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to take offense, which… — Robert Greene
I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person… — Albert Einstein
I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill,… — William Butler Yeats
I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it. You have to… — Cy Twombly
Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good. — Anne Michaels
I've never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don't let it out. Then there's a tragedy, and then all of a… — Diane von Furstenberg
... Ritchie Blackmore was a huge early influence on me, but after that I had to find my own way ... Johann Sebastian Bach was… — Yngwie Malmsteen
When you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, so that by noticing it, you may find it… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
And all of a sudden, all of my sins came before me. Everything I had ever done wrong that I had forgotten about years ago… — Billy Graham
But what I didnt want to have happen, and I made this clear to Jeremy (Florida AD), if I am able to go coach, I… — Urban Meyer
If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration of that which… — Mark Epstein
The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times… — Marlene Dietrich
Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had been done in… — G. Edward Griffin
The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche — Gaston Bachelard

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