Quotes About Abrupt

A man of any consequence in his native place, where he cannot go out but he meets with some recognition of his importance at every step, does not readily accustom himself to the sudden and total extinction of his consequence. You are somebody in your own country, in Paris you are nobody. The transition between the first state and the last should be made gradually, for the too abrupt fall is something like annihilation.

Neither of them even had time to scream.

Andrè fu il primo a partire, mentre parlava, a metà di una frase, come si spegne una candela.

Of all the possible dramatic entrances that might then have occurred, none would have been more likely to convince most of those assembled that Death itself had come among them than did the abrupt entrance of Jimmy Two Eyes.

slowly from the fire to her son, then snapped abruptly, focusing on the two little boys, who

They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.

then abruptly

When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

Things always seem to end before they start

World is suddener than we fancy it.

He had intended his address to be somewhat more comprehensive than this but was forced to cut it short, having been stabbed between the ribs with a broadsword.

Ahbearrrrrrrrrrrr!

I'm not sorry about being rude if it gets to the point quicker.

God's movement is often abrupt and unsettling rather than predictable and settling.

Sometimes there's no warning. Nothing at all.

For many people, depression is an abrupt change in an otherwise full and happy life. It emerges suddenly and devastates by its very strangeness and pathology.

It happened so fast - so abruptly. An innocence I'd clung to was lost in that instant.