Definition of Startled

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Definition of Startled
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Startled Quotations

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.
Robert Collier

I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.
Marcel Marceau

She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.
Raymond Chandler

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
W. Somerset Maugham

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.
David Rockefeller

I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.
Jonathan Miller

It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.
Yahoo Serious

We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were.
Hugh Leonard

Startled Translations

startled in Dutch is geschrokken
startled in German is aufgeschreckt, aufgeschreckt, schreckte auf
startled in Hungarian is ijedt, riadt

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