Quotes About Abrupt

Adrian suddenly made an abrupt turn onto a side street we'd nearly driven past. I jerked upright as he clipped the curb. "What are you doing? Think about your tires!

Something that's unsustainable, like a dysfunctional relationship, can go on longer than you expect, and then end faster and messier than you think.

suddenly, was the roaring sea

Eric turned abruptly away to hide his emption and on his face was a light as of one who sees a great glory widening and deepening down the vista of his future.

The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind.

She's terse. I can be terse. Once, in flight school, I was laconic.

It was over before I even had a chance.

With that news her life had been abruptly, irrevocably altered. Come

seems completely unwarranted.

And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself.

nuestro universo desaparecerá tan abruptamente como, probablemente, empezó.

I'm afraid I was a little abrupt recently with a producer who sent me a screenplay. It was rubbish, really. I sent it back with a polite rejection. Then he came back with the plea that 'we tailored it just for you.' I replied simply, 'But no one came to take the measurements.

Change happens very slow and very sudden.

All things move in time as they move in a dream; Abrupt, symbolic, like mountains seen through a rift, They tower and vanish. from The Jacaranda by Douglas Stewart

When I fire, I just look at them and I say, 'You're fired.' I don't prolong it.

Every firing happens differently except in this one respect: the person being fired can't believe how fast it happens.

It was strange what happened to me; I mean popping out like that before I was even ten.

Revolution - In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

It was one of those abrupt thought changes which so confounded Stilgar. He found himself temporarily dumb. Such words contained meaning, but their intent eluded him.

I felt that after 14 years we deserved more than just a day and a half's notice. There wasn't even a chance to wind up 'Bonanza' in a blaze of glory.

Life so often arrives all of a sudden.

The world ... is full of people who never knew what hit 'em, their lives are over before they wake up.

But I had no idea that they were going to pull the plug so quickly.

Demanding abrupt and expensive changes in public policy raises fair questions about ideological intentions.