A Rude Awakening Quotes

#1. The future looks like gasoline ... crude oil ... is the future before it has been refined. It is like a dream of the future, really, and like any dream it ends with a rude awakening.

Chris Cleave

#2. Try to strip me of my credibility and make me look fake, G you only gonna be in for a rude awakening.

Eminem

#3. When I started in professional baseball, I had what you might call a rude awakening. See this scar right next to my left ear? That's where the pitcher hit me the very first time I came to bat as a pro. I was out cold for about 10 minutes.

Billy Herman

#4. After my parents got divorced, I had to go right into public school in the fourth grade. The Steiner school had never really taught me how to read, so it was a rude awakening. I was playing catch-up the whole time.

Justin Theroux

#5. I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Bryan Adams

#6. Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination.

Catherine Crier

#7. You don't want to move in with someone and find out that they don't have auto or health insurance. That's a rude awakening.

Laura Wasser

#8. Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.

Phil Knight

#9. Levi: "Somebody please shut up these god-damned brats."
Hanji: "Good thing those wide-eyed kids don't know what a cleanliness freak you are ... they'd be in for a rude awakening.

Hajime Isayama

#10. Finally, it's not the lies we tell others that do the most damage, it's those we tell ourselves. From this all troubles rise.

Anthony McCarten

#11. Remember that that "rude awakening" which your parents and well-meaning relatives threatened you with as a kid is better than no awakening at all.

Perry Brass

#12. He earned every precious beautiful moment life gave back to him.

Brendan Gleeson

#13. There's a long bipartisan tradition of civil rights enforcement.

Thomas Perez

#14. One smile upon your face can save another's day from waste.

Patty Smith

#15. I was going crazy. My brain had just shit the bed on me.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#16. I was woken by a shell-burst in the trench of sleep. Heart skipping, with eyes fighting light, my thoughts sprang up like a field of starlings startled by a farmer's gunshot, a thousand separate, autonomous specks that swirled into a single united black shape.

Will Wiles

#17. For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

Zoe Kravitz

#18. A song for you
A song for me
Is how we relate our life to be

Patty Smith

#19. Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.

Robert A. Heinlein

#20. The Buddha's dharma didn't teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening - often rude awakening.

Jay Michaelson

#21. I try to stop and take a 10-second break and ask myself before I do something: One, is this going to improve my life for my children, or two, will there be a potential for something to go wrong here?

Tom Sizemore

#22. UNC symbolizes something special. When you get chills you know you belong here.

Lorrie Fair

#23. the parking lot out there, the right and left are reversed.

David Baldacci

#24. There is so little in the New Testament about sexual love, and most of it consists of Paul heaving a deep sigh and tolerating it like a weakness.

Michel Faber

#25. I think just dreaming big and having aspirations is important. So you know I want to be the greatest of all time at what I do and if you're not trying to be the greatest at what you do then you're not doing it for real.

Big Sean

#26. True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.

Napoleon Bonaparte