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On Internet time: sudden shifts in technologies and markets, races for market share driven — Anonymous

The loss of one's dignified bearing is often sudden. — Jerry Van Amerongen

What quick wit is found in sudden straits! — Martial

This is how sudden things happened that haunted forever. — Daniel Woodrell

It seems whenever the government doesn't want anyone to know something, it is all of a sudden critical to national security. — Kenneth Eade

What is it you don't understand about the universe?" Jobs replied, "I don't understand why all of a sudden my dad is so broke. — Walter Isaacson

She lifts a bowl of kheer and her thoughts, flittering like dusty sparrows in a brown back alley, turn a sudden kingfisher blue. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade. — Gelett Burgess

Awakening will be sudden and shocking. You and I must be there for her awakening. We won't be there for (her?) later on. That's for other hands to do. — L.J.Smith

If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself. — H.L. Mencken

The story in that book of yours comes down to a sudden slipup caused by two great vices: women and laziness. — Kamel Daoud

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does. — Gerald Brenan

Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so. — Gene Robinson

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. — Edwin Land

In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk. — Harry Hamlin

The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish — Jonathan Safran Foer

I'm pretty sure you could actually grate cheese of his abs.
... I had a sudden image of him using his abs to grate my face. — Lish McBride

Therefore, if you are attacked, retaliate instantly. Be sudden. Be quick. Speed is your salvation. — Jeff Cooper

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move. — David Letterman

In Czech, according to Milan Kundera, litost is a state of agony and torment created by the sudden sight of one's own misery. — Rabih Alameddine

When I'm singing or on stage, I become complete all of a sudden. I'm whole. I don't think I've really had that in so many other things in my life. — Neneh Cherry

My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudden widescreen. — Helena Bonham Carter

It is the patchiness of the record that makes each new find look so sudden and distinct from all the others. — Bill Bryson

The sudden, painful flare of envy caught me by surprise. I was a loner, my last few years in school. I could have done with a friend like that. — Tana French

She had seen too much of the world, to expect sudden or disinterested attachment anywhere, — Jane Austen

He had his knife and gun belt on over his underwear, in case of sudden attack. — Larry McMurtry

She eyed him steadily, wondering at his sudden ... humanity. Maybe dying did away with the usual games, the pretenses of the living dance. — Steven Erikson

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good. — Anne Michaels

Father doesn't think very sudden, but he thinks awful strong. — Kate Douglas Wiggin

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation. — Jane Goodall

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness. — Elias Canetti

When, on your dangerous mission gone,
You underrate our foes as dunces,
Be wary, not of sudden gun,
But of your partner at the dances. — Stanley Kunitz

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders. — Oscar Wilde

How did, all of a sudden, my middling desire to spend quality time in another's company become overwhelming? — Rodney Ross

If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me. — Abraham Verghese

Life laughs at predictions and introduces words where we imagined silences, and sudden returns when we thought we would never see each other again. — Jose Saramago

Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so,
To make my end too sudden. — William Shakespeare

You can't all of a sudden go to sleep one night and wake up Martha Stewart. It's bit by bit by bit. — Jen Lancaster

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea. — Beverly Cleary

So you get kind of addicted to a revenue stream, and then all of a sudden it goes away, now the problem is worse than it was before. — Craig Benson

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. — Gaston Bachelard

Hope does not die like an animal--quick and sudden. It is more like a plant, which slowly withers away. — Jamil Ahmad

I'd never had people drive me around, and then all of a sudden, if a car didn't come, I'd say, "Where's my car?" — Patti Smith

It's a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn't want to think anymore; all of a sudden it wants to do. — Ned Vizzini

In my family I was never known as the fighter, like I became all of a sudden. — Jane Byrne

Most postmodernists blame the decline of the dracono-bardic tradition on the sudden and soaring popularity of the Beatles. — E.K. Johnston

A sudden happiness, a feeling of bliss, the joy that came of freedom and a new life - these were the gifts she had left him. — Milan Kundera

I'm starting to think that you have a really bad habit of trying to save me."
She turns shy and looks down. "You are worth saving. — Daniele Lanzarotta

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. — Mark Twain

Sometimes, God doesn't make things happen at a sudden, but for a reason! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors. — Tacitus

Peter's privatemost circuitry a sudden and confusing crossfiring at how arousing and simultaneously dick-shriveling this apparition was. — Brian McGreevy

With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox, It enters the dark hole of the head. The window is starless still; the clock ticks, The page is printed. — Ted Hughes

I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the balance of power. — John Lewis Gaddis

Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring. — Margaret Atwood

A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did. — Robert Jordan

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree. — Sigmund Freud

You meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you've been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: 'Write this down' — Carlos Santana

I don't know if you realize it or not, but your sudden devotion to her is creepy. — Melissa Marr

Departure should be sudden. — Benjamin Disraeli

Two girls discover the secret of life
in a sudden line of poetry. — Denise Levertov

I remember pogs and sticky hands. I remember both. I wanted to get into pogs. I remember it was, like, all of a sudden it was here, then gone. — Nick Carter

It's easy to say you're more mature because all of a sudden you have a child, but it's a process. — Tony Romo

You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success. — Randy Bachman

Condemned to Hope's delusive mine,
As on we toil from day to day,
By sudden blasts or slow decline
Our social comforts drop away. — Samuel Johnson

But all of a sudden they're poets, right, like that's all it takes - being in love. — David Sedaris

Damn wind shift sudden as a woman mind. — Derek Walcott

Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death. — Adolf Hitler

I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness. — Babe Paley

Jesus. Who does he think he is? He's always out partying and drinking with his friends. I do it once and all of a sudden I'm a candidate for AA. — Lauren Barnholdt

It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory — Victor Hugo

I was eleven years old when I saw a woman for the first time, and I was seized by such sudden surprise that I burst into tears. — Mia Couto

Beaches, music, and car rides - they could all bring on a sudden bout of deep, dreamy thoughts. — Deb Caletti

For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. — Daniel Defoe

Time is like a zombie. It moves slow, but all of a sudden 'BOO! Got your brains! — Jennie Breeden

You have people telling you how good you are and all of a sudden, you might start believing it and forget what it takes to be good. — Lou Lamoriello

Decisions can be like car accidents, sudden and full of consequences. — Allison Glock

Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination. — Yukio Mishima

Because you make me want to live. You make me want to grow old with you. You give me hope, and that scares me more than anything else — Daniele Lanzarotta

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius. — Jason Calacanis

Do not be afraid of sudden terror, nor of trouble from the wicked when it comes; for the Lord will be your confidence (Proverbs 3:25, 26). — Perry Stone

I don't want my learning curve to be stunted by just all of a sudden doing work all the time and not being careful about the work that I'm doing. — Paul Dano

Then, all of a sudden, there was a great black hull, stretching farther than my eye could see. — Ellen Emerson White

although my sudden goosebumps have nothing to do with the climate. — Paige Toon

All of a sudden, making a Spanish-American War joke. I think you sort of had to go to probably to an American high school to have remembered that. — David Mandel

Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal. — Ernest K. Gann

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count. — Neil Simon

I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real. — Austin Peck

This is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again. — Alexander McCall Smith

When all of a sudden, people say, 'Wow, you look nice,' and carry on, it's shocking. Really awkward. — Nikki Cox

What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness
that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidst the night of non-being. — Vladimir Nabokov

Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night. — Thomas Harris

Coffee goes great with sudden death. — Gillian Flynn

Misery loves company, which explains my sudden popularity. - T-SHIRT — Darynda Jones

Sudden, spontaneous eye contact is a sign that two people should talk. — James Redfield

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

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. — Marilyn Ferguson

It's not all of a sudden," he said, his eyes locked on mine. "It's always. — Jenny Han

Death is always sudden however long one waits. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Status: Naked. On bed. With boy. Systems overheating. Sudden doubts multiplying. Meltdown imminent. — J.C. Lillis