“ Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather. ”
- David Hare- Copy
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“ Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. ”
- Thomas Hobbes- Copy
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“ New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move. ”
- David Letterman- Copy
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“ That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. ”
- Madeleine L’Engle- Copy
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“ Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses. ”
- Robert Burton- Copy
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“ A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of which we so much boast. ”
- Albert Cooper- Copy
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“ If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ Where desire writhed there stands a stone; the change was sudden and complete. ”
- Maggie Roche- Copy
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“ During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight. ”
- Fritjof Capra- Copy
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“ I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. ”
- James Madison- Copy
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“ The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth. ”
- Dorothy Sayers- Copy
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“ It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end. ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
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“ I'm very critical of the U.S., but get me outside the country and all of a sudden I can't bring myself to say one nasty thing about the U.S. ”
- Saul Alinsky- Copy
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“ The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
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“ There is no disease that you either have or don't have - except perhaps sudden death and rabies. All other diseases you either have a little or a lot of. ”
- Geoffrey Rose- Copy
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“ A single idea — the sudden flash of a thought — may be worth a million dollars. ”
- Robert Collier- Copy
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“ A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
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“ A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across. ”
- Irvin S. Cobb- Copy
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“ A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast. ”
- Peter Cooper- Copy
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“ Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden outburst. ”
- Eleanor H. Porter- Copy
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“ Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors. ”
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus- Copy
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“ God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
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“ Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue. ”
- Henry Fielding- Copy
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“ Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death. ”
- Gerald Brenan- Copy
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“ Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than the sudden flash of insight that leaves you a changed person — not only changed, but for the better. ”
- Arthur Gordon- Copy
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“ Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade. ”
- Frank Gelett Burgess- Copy
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