Suddenly Quotes
2531 Suddenly quotes by 1697 unique authors
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Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift .…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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If a new result is to have any value, it must unite elements long since known, but till then scattered and seemingly foreign to each…
— Wilfred Bion
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One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the stone wall opposite…
— John Burroughs
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We have now got what seems to be definite proof that an X ray which spreads out in a spherical form from a source as…
— Henry Moseley
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If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and not worry about…
— James Lee Burke
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Our society offers little in the way of reeducation for those who have been torn away from their traditional culture and suddenly exposed to all…
— David Riesman
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When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst…
— Lytton Strachey
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You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like…
— Louise Erdrich
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But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly.
— Marie de France
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I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and…
— Penelope Lively
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Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly…
— Alexander Haig
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I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key.…
— David Cronenberg
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That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are…
— Stephen Bayley
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We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.
— Charles Olson
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I was neurotic for years. I was anxious and depressed and selfish. Everyone kept telling me to change. I resented them and I agreed with…
— Anthony de Mello
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Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their…
— Srully Blotnick
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Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were…
— Wim Wenders
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It was a tough year for me, '89, losing two Slam finals and losing another five finals. It wasn't until I won the Masters, or…
— Stefan Edberg
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Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.
— Anna Deavere Smith
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For Nirvana, putting out their first major-label record was like getting into a new car. But the runaway success was like suddenly discovering that the…
— Michael Azerrad
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We live in such a service-based, globalised economy where very few people actually make anything and the people who do make stuff... it's all part…
— Max Brooks
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My mom has an English accent, so we always referred to the trunk as the 'boot.' And then, suddenly, we moved to Georgia and I…
— Nicole Beharie
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My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year,…
— Rick Bass
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Often, when you see yourself on the screen, you feel like a sweater that's been put through the washing machine. You have the impression of…
— Emmanuelle Beart
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It was like I had a baby and I suddenly started to feel I could play anything.
— Selma Blair
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