Sudden Quotes

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
C. S. Lewis

Hell, Road, Gentle

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

Education, Long, Run

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Mark Twain

Marriage, Before, Union

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Great, Men, Night

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison

Power, Freedom, Silent

I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing.
Marilyn Monroe

Friends, Talk, Here

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
Thomas Hardy

Hope, Ultimate, Leaves

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

Happiness, Sense, High

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
T. S. Eliot

Christmas, Moving, Between

I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!
Billy Ray Cyrus

God, Beautiful, Saying

Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend.
Jason Ritter

Fake, Friend, Coming

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
Robert Burton

Friends, Small, Old

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Francis Bacon

Him, Times, Question

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.
George W. Bush

Today, America, Suffering

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Life, Girl, Sorry

I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.
Harvey Fierstein

Life, Work, May

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
Emile M. Cioran

Silence, Speech, Pay

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.
Jim Carrey

School, Friends, Reason

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.
Saul Alinsky

Life, Death, Live

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
Max Eastman

Mind, Him, Goal

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
Charles R. Swindoll

Wind, Compromise, Misfortune

I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.
Anthony Hopkins

Life, Time, Death

Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.
Gerald Massey

Life, Smile, Joy

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
Robert Browning

Thought, Stung, Splendour

I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can't wear anything sleeveless or strapless. And all of a sudden I was like, What if I just didn't send such negative messages to my brain and said, wear it and enjoy it? And now I'm more comfortable in clothes than ever.
Drew Barrymore

Brain, Enjoy, Negative

When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice.
Drew Barrymore

Fear, Nice, Feeling

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
Edwin Land

Stupidity, Creativity, Cessation

When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third.
Rita Rudner

Start, Second, Position

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
Christian Nestell Bovee

You become very known for being someone's girlfriend, and all of a sudden there's all this hype and buzz for all the wrong reasons.
Sienna Miller

Someone, Become, Wrong

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