Sudden Quotes

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness? View quote
Anna Freud
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. View quote
James Madison
A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did. View quote
Robert Jordan
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. View quote
Robert Browning
Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. View quote
Mark Twain
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. (C. S. Lewis)
I come from haunt of coot and her, I make s sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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. View quote
Emil Cioran
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? View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses. View quote
Robert Burton
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment. View quote
Johan Huizinga
Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears. View quote
Lord Byron
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. View quote
Mark Twain
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas. (Dave Reichert)
You don't quite know how drunk you are until all of a sudden you're on the floor. View quote
Gina Gershon
People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family. View quote
Keith Henson
It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations. View quote
Vida Blue
The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence. View quote
Boutros Boutros-Ghali