Quotes About Suddenly

We know by experience that a nation may suddenly blaze out into a splendor of productive genius, of which its previous history gave but faint promise, and of which its subsequent history shows but little trace.

I really didn't even have time to get that many lessons, to be honest, because I was suddenly on the road. I was kind of thrown in the deep end. But that wasn't a bad thing when I look back at it.

And why just then, why that moment was the moment in which she understood quite suddenly her own death, she couldn't say. Simply, she saw how he would miss her.

We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.

Her smile was suddenly brightly amused, reminding him of the girl he had once known and loved.

Night doesn't fall, but rather, all the disregarded shadows of a day flock like blackbirds, and suddenly rise. — Stuart Dybek, from "Ravenswood," Alaska Quarterly Review , Fall & Winter 2012

Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.

When did you get so peppy?" she shouted. "Ever since I assumed I was dead, then I suddenly wasn't." "Then remind me to try to kill you once in a while," she snapped. "If I succeed, it will make me feel better, and if I fail, it will make you feel better. Everyone wins!

Meg, I'm not suddenly some kind of all-knowing dragon expert, you know.

Earth changes unimaginably slowly except when it changes suddenly and catastrophically, like right now.

All of this happened very quickly, but not suddenly, and not before the appearance of certain omens.

I was just this kid from Colorado studying theater, and suddenly I was on a hit TV show.

He was suddenly uneasy, as if he'd just begun to think about me, the kind of person I might be, the way that I might think.

i try not to think of myself as a person but a metal object, built suddenly by machines in complete darkness something impossible to hurt with a shovel

When all normal rules are suspended, and ordinary things that used to be important suddenly become meaningless.

suddenly he's forced to wonder if each Jawa is just a fraternity of wet rats gathering together under brown robes and a black face veil.

In all the books love is one of the great facts that mould human life. But it is a catastrophe: it happens suddenly and overwhelmingly, and there is little to be said about it.

They would trickle out in dribs and drabs, memories surfacing suddenly, prompted by the merest thread, the way memories often do.

they both knew all the details would be a long time in coming. They would trickle out in dribs and drabs, memories surfacing suddenly, prompted by the merest thread, the way memories often do.

So-ho!" the guard sang out, as loud as he could roar. "Yo there! Stand! I shall fire!" The pace was suddenly

The preposterous comedy of this gang of criminals branding everyone else as criminals was suddenly too much for him to take.

Qibli," he said, "please order that scroll to roll itself up." Qibli laughed. "Don't you think I've spent my whole life hoping magic would suddenly pop out of my claws?

The room seemed suddenly filled with ghosts, the dreary shades of the politically correct era. (She probably refers to the years 2001-2012.

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.