Sudden Quotes
1085 Sudden quotes by 866 unique authors
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What an awful thing then, being there in our house together with our daughter gone, trying to be equal to so many sudden orders of…
— Paul Harding
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I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement as he slid…
— Sarah Dessen
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Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I…
— Douglas Adams
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A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
— Khaled Hosseini
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The English language needs a word for that feeling you get when you badly need help, but there is no one you can call because…
— David Wong
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Our lips met hungrily, and his clever artistic hands wrapped around my hips. A sudden buzz from my regular cell phone startled me from the…
— Richelle Mead
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I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didn’t want to see any people at all. I had seen so many…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.
— J D Salinger
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Miracles happen quietly every day - in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are…
— Mitch Albom
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There is the sudden. There is the eventual. And in between, there is the living.
— David Levithan
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.’..all this talk about your son’s loyalty and fidelity has made me feel a sudden urge to go riding.’ His father scowled. ‘You shouldn't ride…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage…
— Roald Dahl
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She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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All your life you think 60 is ancient, and all of a sudden you find you're 60 and you don't really feel that different. I…
— Glenn Close
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That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say…
— Barack Obama
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We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and…
— Winston Churchill
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As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a…
— Giordano Bruno
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Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. We have not fully recognized…
— Marilyn Ferguson
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The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature... It is this sudden…
— Lewis Thomas
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Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of…
— Gerald Massey
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All of a sudden, space isn't friendly. All of a sudden, it's a place where people can die. . . . Many more people are…
— Isaac Asimov
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If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of…
— Candace Bushnell
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Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
— Max Ehrmann
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If we believe heaven to be our country, it is better for us to transmit our wealth thither, than to retain it here, where we…
— John Calvin
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