We Suddenly Quotes
26 quotes by 26 authors
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Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all…
— Tim Reid
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Any woman who is currently with a man is with him partly because she loves the way he smells. And if we haven't smelled you…
— Christina Hendricks
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Perhaps we have been guilty of speaking against someone and have not realized how it may have hurt them. Then when someone speaks against us,…
— Theodore Epp
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The threat [of the U.S. bills SOPA and PIPA] is the inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all treated like thieves…
— Clay Shirky
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We stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch we happened to look out of the kitchen window at our…
— Linda McCartney
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For 40 years we were led to think of the Russians as godless, materialistic and an evil empire. When the Cold War ended, we suddenly…
— Norman Mailer
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If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The wearing of fabric head coverings in worship was universally the practice of Christian women until the twentieth century. What happened? Did we suddenly find…
— R C Sproul
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Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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One of the many characteristics of the new is that, at first, it's very hard to recognize it for what it is. We're lucky if…
— Junot Diaz
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Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis.
— Jurgen Habermas
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After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have…
— Ernest Shackleton
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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
— George Bernard Shaw
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We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stone—crumbling…
— Ekaterina Sedia
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I sat thinking how terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as incredible as…
— Jostein Gaarder
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There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple…
— William George Jordan
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I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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