S Quotes
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“Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Suddenly, to my great dismay I realized I had fallen short, while time had likewise drawn short. Opportunities missed because I let fear captain the ship to lesser seas. Relationships that evaporated because I chose other places to be and other pursuits to pursue. Doors that closed because the hallway was all too familiar. Moments missed because my mind became too easily mesmerized by the pablum of lesser things. Time gone and the repercussions of those choices swept away to a place from which they will never be retrieved nor altered in the retrieving. Indeed, I have fallen short.
But then I caught the thief of negativity as he snuck stealthy around the periphery of my soul. Catching a fleeting glimpse of him, I grabbed him as never before and said, “You will not have your way with me. I must somehow rebel with enough force to set history back on its feet, position the present to run forward, and send the thief into exile.” And so, I asked myself, “What have I done despite what the thief would attempt to convince me of?” Opportunities that were seized. Relationships that held tight and thrived in the holding. Hallways that were left and doors that were walked through. Moments that were captured and lovingly held once they had fulfilled their duty and bid me farewell. Time spent, but not entirely wasted in the spending.
And then, what about the time that’s left? History is gone, but the present is history in the making…and therefore I will make it great. And so, I may have fallen short but my stride remains long, time is yet with me, and the future is a blank page for which I have a fresh pen. Yes, I have fallen short at times. But now I will leap long.”
“Suddenly to realise that one is sitting, damned, among the other damned--it is a most disquieting experience; so disquieting thatmost of us react to it by immediately plunging more deeply into our particular damnation in the hope, generally realized, that we may be able, at least for a time, to stifle our revolutionary knowledge.”
Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“Suddenly, two 3D animated figures materialized out of thin air. One of them resembled a young, Native American woman in her 20's. The other resembled a knight in shining armour from the 1500's. Both characters stood about 30 feet tall. Just then, a booming voice resounded from the UFO:
Well, well! If it isn't the Sky Fighters, and their Houndy Crunchers cohorts! Your pathetic attempts to stop me from taking over this planet are all in vain! Now come forth and bow to your new masters; two of my strongest henchmen! MU-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!”
Source: Sky Fighters and Houndy Crunchers
“Suddenly, two shooting stars collided. Our souls merged.”
Source: Vine: Book of Poetry
“Suddenly, Vin grew pale. Elend paused, glancing at her, sensing that something was wrong. Not with what he'd said, something else. What is it? Assassins? Mist spirits? Koloss?
"I just realized something," Vin said, looking at him with those intense eyes of hers. "I can't go to a ball—I didn't bring a gown!”
Source: The Hero of Ages
“Suddenly, Warrick lifted his head. Darcy struggled to open her eyes and think through the fog of desire. She gazed into his cobalt eyes, her stomach clenching at the longing she saw reflected there.
"There's a Dark at the back," he whispered.
Darcy was so frustrated that she wanted to scream. Why couldn't they have a few minutes of privacy? If it wasn't Rhi popping in, it was the Dark after her. "Tell him to go away. We're busy."
A sexy grin pulled at Warrick's lips. "Gladly.”
Source: Soul Scorched
“Suddenly we could all hear, we could all listen, and instead of being caught up in our finite little balls of bullshit, we could all become players in that great universal orchestra again.”
Source: Scar Tissue
“Suddenly we have a baby who poops and cries, and we are trying to calm, clean up, and pin things together all at once. Then as fast as we learn to cope--so soon--it is hard to recall why diapers ever seemed so important. The frontiers change, and now perhaps we have a teenager we can't reach.”
“Suddenly we’re not kids anymore, and it feels like it happened overnight, so fast I didn’t have time to notice, to let go of everything that used to matter so much, to see that the old wounds that once felt like gut-level lacerations have faded to small white scars, mixed in among the stretch marks and sunspots and little divots where time has grazed against my body.”
Source: People We Meet on Vacation
“Suddenly we’re not kids anymore, and it feels like it happened overnight, so fast I didn’t have time to notice, to let go of everything that used to matter so much, to see that the old wounds that once felt like gut-level lacerations have faded to small white scars, mixed in among the stretch marks and sunspots and little divots where time has grazed against my body.
I’ve put so much time and distance between myself and that lonely girl, and what does it matter? Here is a piece of my past, right in front of me, miles away from home. You can’t outrun yourself. Not your history, not your fears, not the parts of yourself you’re worried are wrong.”
Source: People We Meet on Vacation
“Suddenly we were standing toe to toe. His body took up so much space around me it was hard to breathe. I could feel his heat and we weren’t even touching. What had just happened? Kyle saw the overwhelmed look in my eyes and smirked. He brought his mouth down to mine and brushed my lips with a touch so feather-light that I gasped. My body reacted before my head could. I drifted into him as if he was somehow my new center of gravity. My eyes fluttered shut, and I waited for a kiss that never came. His lips were there, brushing back and forth over mine, teasing me cruelly until I ached with a desire so intense I started to shake. Kyle chuckled darkly. “You’re in over your head with me, Virgin Val.”
Source: V is for Virgin
“Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.”
“Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only brother was killed in the flour mill or when his children died, stronger even than when he was a child and it first occurred to him that he must try to understand what it could mean not to be alive -- to be not in darkness, not in unfeeling -- to be not being, not to be.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“Suddenly you are a Deafblind spaceman who left a very quiet planet a long time ago and are just arriving back on Earth, in a classroom, surrounded by a crowd of noisy people.”
Source: The Sign for Home
“Suddenly you realize that you are the mother of the Universe, eager to protect, transform and care every soul of the world.”
Source: Enlightenment Step by Step
“Suddenly you're at church and you hear someone pray, "For gays and lesbians, that they might realize their [sins]...." That's happening less and less now, but all it takes is one of those when you're nine, ten, eleven, twelve - and it's hard to describe to people who aren't, because of course if you're not gay, an eleven- or twelve-year-old wouldn't even remember that that happened.”
“Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring.”
“Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another”
“Suddenly you're the mom, or you go from ... You're not an ingénue, you don't want to play an ingénue, but it's like that line in The First Wives Club [1996]: "There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: babe, district attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy."”
“Suddenly you've worked yourself up to the top of the pecking order and you say to yourself, okay, this is going to be fun.”
“Suddenly, your mom's best friend's cousin's coworker is an expert on climate change, and you are left wondering how you ended up in this alternate universe of unverified facts.”
Source: Clickonomics: How to Win Customers and Influence People on the Internet
“Suddenly, your social media feed is filled with nothing but affirmations of your belief that cats are superior to dogs (Obviously - My author’s name checks out!)”
Source: Clickonomics: How to Win Customers and Influence People on the Internet
“Suddenly Yudhisthira saw a yaksha approaching him. The being sat in front of him and began firing questions rapidly at him.
What is bigger than the Earth? the yaksha asked.
"A mother" replied Yudhisthira.
What is taller than the sky?
"A father"
What is faster than the wind?
"The mind , of course". Yudhisthira smiled.
What grows faster than hay?
"Worry"
What is the greatest dharma in the world? queried the yaksha
"Compassion and conscience"
With who is friendship never-ending?
"With good people" responded Yudhisthira patiently.
What is the secret to never feeling unhappy?
"If one can control his or her mind, then that person will never feel sad"
The yaksha increase his pace now.
What is the greatest kind of wealth.
"Education"
What is the greatest kind of profit?
"Health"
What is the greatest kind of happiness?
"Contentment" said Yudhisthira, ever prompt with his replies.
What is man's worst enemy?
"Anger"
What disease will never have a cure?
"Greed is incurable"
The yaksha smiled again. A last question my friend. What is life's biggest irony?
"It is the desire to live eternally. Every day, we encounter people dying but we always think that death will never come to us.”
Source: The Serpent's Revenge: Unusual Tales from the Mahabharata
“Suddenly, after years of television being the poor relation and film being everything, it now feels like film is a conjuring trick. It's like, "Oh, my god, how are you going to do that in 90 minutes, as opposed to eight hours?! I've got so little time to do this!" It becomes an art form, in itself. Doing both helps you do each one.”
“Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her.”
Source: The Lover
“Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.”
Source: A Secret Affair
“Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.”
Source: The poetry of the Brownings: an anthology
“Suddenly, as though in a dream, this apparition, this double apparition, approached me. The two most beautiful people in the world were floating toward me, smiling. It was as if they were angelic visitors. I thought to myself, 'If there is anything I can do to keep them as beautiful as they are, I will do it.'”
“Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.”
“Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate, sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth ... home. My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity.”
Source: The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.”
Source: Dracula
“Suddenly, I don't know what to say. It happens often to me. I know what I want to say, I think about whether it is what I mean, but when the moment comes to speak, I can't say it. - Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie.”
“Suddenly, I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to pretend I'm fooling the world when I'm not. I want someone else to have a plan for me, because I'm not doing a very good job myself.”
Source: Sing You Home: A Novel
“Suddenly, I found I was married to a millionaire.”
“Suddenly, I realized how tough trying to structure a story like this is. It was a lot of work. The one big advantage that we had was that we had eight scripts written before we started shooting, or even started casting. We had a really good opportunity to look at it and figure out where we were going to go and how to do it. Once we got a cast, which I love, then we started doing some revisions to make sure that they fit into it.”
“Suddenly, I saw it in a new way, as a picture that offered me a new view, free of all the conventional criteria I had always associated with art. It had no style, no composition, no judgment. It freed me from personal experience. For the first time, there was nothing to it: it was pure picture. That's why I wanted to have it, to show it - not use it as a means to painting but use painting as a means to photography.”
Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007
“Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.”
“Suddenly, I was just sure he was going to kiss me. He was there, I could feel his breath, the ground solid beneath us. But then something crossed his face, a thought, a hesitation, and he shifted slightly. Not now. Not yet. It was something I'd done so often - weighing what I could afford to risk, right at that moment - that I recognized it instantly. It was like looking in a mirror.”
Source: What Happened to Goodbye
“Suddenly, I was thirty, very unhappy entertaining people in their forties, and here came a group of people in their teens and twenties who had similar anti-authority problems and similar dreams and wishes, hopes for mankind. So I gravitated toward them.”
“Suddenly, I win the derby and people are talking about England again. It is absolutely pathetic”
“Suddenly, I'm in movies that people are excited about, and that is a nice change.”
“Suddenly, in the early 20th century, there were thousands of men with essentially nothing to do. The farm work, as well as other work, was being handled by machines.”
“Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain - which is to say, all of it. Every last bit of it, good and bad - old churches, country lanes, people saying 'Mustn't grumble,' and 'I'm terribly sorry but,' people apologizing to ME when I conk them with a careless elbow, milk in bottles, beans on toast, haymaking in June, seaside piers, Ordnance Survey maps, tea and crumpets, summer showers and foggy winter evenings - every bit of it.”
“Suddenly, it's all too much. Bryn and the bump watch. Vanessa with my high school yearbook. The idea that nothing's sacred. Everything's fodder. That my life belongs to anyone but me.”
Source: Where She Went
“Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.”
Source: The Works of Wells
“Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?”
Source: Jon Ronson's Adventures With Extraordinary People
“Suddenly, one day, there was this thing called parenting. Parenting was serious. Parenting was fierce. Parenting was solemn. Parenting was a participle, like going and doing and crusading and worrying.”
Source: I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman
“Suddenly, people had three phone numbers but never answered their phones.”
Source: Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm
“Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this awareness arises within you, freeing you from fear, opening your life. It is the beginning of love, and the end of all that came before.”