Suddenness Quotes
11 quotes by 11 authors
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I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion with my previous…
— Henri Poincare
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Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are…
— C.S. Lewis
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Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and…
— Emma Thompson
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The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.
— Marshall McLuhan
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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
— O. Henry
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In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á priori…
— Charles Lyell
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A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men…
— Charles Dickens
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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop,…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Now the same mystery which often veils from our eyes the reason for a catastrophe envelops just as frequently, when love is in question, the…
— Marcel Proust
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She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Suddenness," he says. " You do not prepare, you do not explain, you do not apologize. Suddenly, you go. And with you, you take all…
— Tea Obreht
Who Wrote These Suddenness Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 11 Suddenness Quotes as follows: