Sudden Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Sudden
Sudden Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Sudden quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
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
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
The story in that book of yours comes down to a sudden slipup caused by two great vices: women and laziness.
— Kamel Daoud
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
... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Departure should be sudden.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Two girls discover the secret of life
in a sudden line of poetry. — Denise Levertov
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
As on we toil from day to day,
By sudden blasts or slow decline
Our social comforts drop away. — Samuel Johnson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Death is always sudden however long one waits.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett