Sudden Quotes

1085 Sudden quotes by 866 unique authors

Have you ever heard somebody sing some lyrics that you've never sung before, and you realize you've never sung the right words in that song?… — Ellen DeGeneres
I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of… — Chuck Palahniuk
I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small shocking acts of… — Steve Almond
The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but… — Joyce Carol Oates
There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
I have seen something like it happen in battle. A man was coming at me, I at him, to kill. Then came a sudden great… — C.S. Lewis
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant figures of dogs… — Michael Chabon
She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made… — Paulo Coelho
His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do… — Oscar Wilde
Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I might… — Elizabeth Gilbert
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
Sometimes love is a surprise, an instant of recognition, a sudden gift at a sudden moment that makes everything different from then on. Some people… — Deb Caletti
Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid and stationary. We… — Haruki Murakami
A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to… — Naomi Shihab Nye
Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden. — David Foster Wallace
I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will. And I had… — Sarah Dessen
When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his thumbs in his belt. A… — Harper Lee
It's nice when somebody tells you about their uncle. Especially when they start out telling you about their father's farm and then all of a… — J D Salinger
But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to… — Virginia Woolf
Omigod,' I said on a sudden flash of sleep-deprived insight. 'You're the big bad wolf.' There are some similarities. — Janet Evanovich
The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their… — Alexander Hamilton
A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Look, calling somebody in a wheelchair handicapable doesn`t all of a sudden give them the power to climb stairs or the ability to grab Ho-Hos… — Glenn Beck
A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and… — Honore de Balzac

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