Sudden Quotes

1085 Sudden quotes by 866 unique authors

Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer afford. The computer,… — Studs Terkel
All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the model life. It was just full-on, 24 hours a day. It was… — Kate Moss
Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but… — Emile M. Cioran
Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself. — Chogyam Trungpa
A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose DNA has recombined… — Jim Butcher
A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity. — Washington Irving
I'd been told of all the things you're meant to feel when your father dies. Sudden freedom, growing up, the end of dependence, the step… — John Mortimer
You've been thinking about something without willing to for a long time...Then, all of a sudden, the problem is opened to you in a flash… — Rita Levi-Montalcini
Often when works at a hard question, nothing good is accomplished at the first attack. Then one takes a rest, long or short, and sits… — Henri Poincare
Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have… — William Macneile Dixon
When you inquire 'Who am I?' if you are honest, you'll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn't have… — Adyashanti
If the economy of today were operating close to capacity levels with little unemployment, or if a sudden change in our military requirements should cause… — John F. Kennedy
I was not able to work up much enthusiasm over the ball game, and in the midst of it I was handed a note informing… — Herbert Hoover
I behave like you, moving, singing, laughing, journeying, but watch out for the blow I inflict all of a sudden, to chastise and to warn. — Sathya Sai Baba
One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent… — Vladimir Lenin
The idea of being able to build things bottom up, atom by atom, has made [scientists] all into tinkerers. And all of a sudden scientists… — Paola Antonelli
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly… — Samuel Johnson
During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so… — Fritjof Capra
The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call money… — Curtis Bean Dall
It's magic. All of a sudden, the idea just pops up. Who knows how? — Unknown Author
Whenever I have had a sudden urge to quit dancing, I just remember that moment I had when I was young and remember that dancing… — Anna Pavlova
Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program. — Spencer W. Kimball
A modern state is such a complex and interdependent fabric that it offers a target highly sensitive to a sudden and overwhelming blow from the… — B. H. Liddell Hart
Anorexia is such a self-consuming, selfish disease. It's all about you. Becoming a mother, all of a sudden it wasn't about me anymore. — Tracey Gold

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