Quotes About Sneaks

#1. The morning is a stealthy hunter, my father used to say. It sneaks up quiet and quick on the night and overtakes it.

Victoria Schwab

#2. Emotional pain is such a strange feeling. You can forget you're in it - or try to, anyway - and then it sneaks up and finds its way to the surface.

Jennifer Lopez

#3. Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle the fence of indecision.

Napoleon Hill

#4. The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.

George Sewell

#5. Happiness always sneaks in through a door you din't know you left open

John Barrymore

#6. There is nothing absolute and final. If everything were ironclad, all the rules absolute and everything structured so no paradox or irony existed, you couldn't move. One could say that man sneaks through the crack where paradox exists.

Itzhak Bentov

#7. America .. the international Jekyll and Hyde ... the land of a thousand disguises, sneaks up on you but rarely surprises

Gil Scott-Heron

#8. In timing a film, we used to assume that sneaks move slowly. This was great for animators-thirty-six to forty-eight drawings for a single step-but it was sheer hell for the pace of the picture. So the rapid tiptoe was invented.

Chuck Jones

#9. Silently time sneaks up on you, each hour
gone is followed by a worse one.

Seneca.

#10. Worry is like a squatter: it sneaks in and tries to stay without paying rent! Serve it eviction papers! HS/el

Evinda Lepins

#11. A sliver of hope sneaks past my walls and I slam every opening shut. Emotion is evil. People who make me feel are worse. I take comfort in the stone inside me. If I don't feel, I don't hurt.

Katie McGarry

#12. Deception sneaks in through the window of pride.

Evinda Lepins

#13. You rarely know, in the moment, when it's the last time you'll do something. Most of the time, the whole thing just sneaks away in the night, never to be seen or heard from again, not even sending back so much as a postcard to say hello.

Michelle Cuevas

#14. Love doesn't always come barreling down on you like a train engine. Sometimes it sneaks up on you like spring overtaking winter. The chill winds begin to warm and suddenly the trees have leaves and the flowers are blooming.

Ann H. Gabhart

#15. But that's the thing with depression. Sometimes there is no controlling it. Sometimes it sneaks up on you.

Kelly Oram

#16. Foolishness pours out of an open mouth ...
but wisdom sneaks in through the ears ...

Gail Z. Martin

#17. Glory never arrives through the front door. She sneaks in uninvited round the back or through an upstairs window while you are sleeping.

Stephen Fry

#18. All of life is a battle against fear. We fight it on one front, and it sneaks around to our flank." He paused, looked kindly at her. "Yes, Father. I understand." "I regret many things I've done," he said, "but most of all I regret those moments when I said to Fear, 'You are my master.

S.D. Smith

#19. Motivation is like love and happiness. It's a by-product. When you're actively engaged in doing something, it sneaks up and zaps you when you least expect it.

John C. Maxwell

#20. But hope is tricky. She sneaks up on you even in unpredictable locations.

Sarina Bowen

#21. God's will isn't always what we expect. Sometimes it 'sneaks up' on us.

S.N. Clemens

#22. A policy of "Quality - If Time Permits" will assure that no quality at all sneaks into the product. Hewlett-Packard

Tom DeMarco

#23. In her misery she read a great deal, and discovered that she had lost something she had previously not really know she had: a soul.
What's that? It is easy to define negatively: it is simply that which sneaks off at the mention of algebraic series.

Robert Musil

#24. Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

John Barrymore

#25. I think you just want to be in love because you think it's supposed to happen now. But love doesn't happen on schedule. It sneaks up when you least expect it. You can't plug it in into that little day planner of yours. You can't make it happen.

Melissa Mayhue

#26. Love is like this amazing, all-consuming force that sneaks up on you and steals all those brain cells that make you think rationally and replaces them with emotions so powerful that you're impotent to change their course.

Melissa Foster

#27. I suspect that the happiest people you know are the ones who work at being kind, helpful and reliable - and happiness sneaks into their lives while they are busy doing those things. It is a by-product, never a primary goal.

Harold S. Kushner

#28. The cab driver is staring at me in his mirror. I'm talking to myself.
"The second sign of madness," I explain.
"What's the first one?"
"Killing lots of people and eating their genitals."
He laughs and sneaks another look at me.

Michael Robotham

#29. The happiest people I know are people who don't even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy doing good.

Harold S. Kushner

#30. The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

Mark Twain

#31. One talks much more about the evil than about the good. That is a paradox. We should only talk about the good to lighten up our existence. Chase anxiousness/fear away for a moment before it sneaks back in again to our life.

Odd Nerdrum

#32. Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.

Lynne Truss

#33. And death doesn't wait for you when your rested and ready. It sneaks up on you when your exhausted and hungry and cold and so scared you can't even see straight

Lili St. Crow

#34. Come quickly with me.
Inhale the divine that swoops
from nostril to blunted throat
then sneaks past guarded doors
into the hallway of your heart
where the lamplight grows.

Merle Nudelman

#35. There is a whole mythology, a set of rules and issues surrounding a relationship like ours, that sneaks in uninvited.

Jessica Posner

#36. I have a string of competitiveness in me. It's really strange 'cause it's not something that I would even expect myself to have, but every now and then it kinda sneaks out, you know.

Hunter Hayes

#37. I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.

Burt Lancaster

#38. Happiness often sneaks in a door you did not know you had left open.

John Barrymore

#39. I'm not Prince Charming. I'm the bad guy that sneaks into the castle when Prince Charming is off singing songs in the woods. I'm the one with the big cock that bends needy Cinderella over. And I'm the one that makes her scream until her throat's raw and she can't sing a note.

Kenya Wright

#40. Woe to that seven months abortion who thinks to take advantage of the accidents of birth, and, mocking the call of duty, sneaks off to stare at a wall in China!

Aleister Crowley

#41. I know I'm not some matinee idol, but I think we're sold this bill of goods by the media, which says that only the most beautiful and dashing people can become movie stars. So when someone like me sneaks in, they have to redo the calculations.

John C. Reilly

#42. Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

John Lithgow

#43. Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.

Doug Larson

#44. Worry acts like a squatter, sneaks in and tries to stay without paying rent! EL.

Evlinda Lepins

#45. Even if I remember the first time perfectly, I don't remember the beginning at all. I mean: the beginning of addiction. It's hard to say when it becomes a problem; it sneaks up on you like a sun shower.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#46. When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.

Aaron Paul

#47. This is where happiness sneaks up on you, and you forgive evil people for unforgivable things because they give you a taste of a future you always thought was beyond your reach.

Laura Thalassa

#48. Love must be invisible. No one ever sees it coming. It sneaks up behind you, bashes you over the head and leaves you in a state of stunned confusion for the rest of your life.

G.J. Walker-Smith

#49. Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.

William H. Macy

#50. In my defense, the Easter Bunny is the weakest link in magical lore. I mean, you have to admit that the whole thing is ridiculous. A giant rodent who sneaks into people's homes at night to leave eggs filled with candy? How in the world is that symbolic of the Easter celebration?

Autumn Doughton

#51. Not all magic is fireworks and fanfare. Sometimes magic is quiet and sneaks up on you. An illusion is what needs all the bells and whistles to make itself appear grander than it really is, which is just a trick that can be explained.

Jeff Guinn

#52. It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.

Orson Scott Card

#53. The world's magic sneaks up on you in secret, settles next to you when you have your head turned.

Bill Clegg

#54. The Yiddish mentality is not haughty. It does not take victory for granted. It does not demand and command but it muddles through, sneaks by, smuggles itself amidst the powers of destruction, knowing somewhere that God's plan for Creation is still at the very beginning.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#55. In scene after scene, meaning sneaks in and sometimes roars.

Manohla Dargis

#56. At the place where they sleep, the melody sneaks inside, touching flesh, skin, mind and thought, some feelings turning to love and beauty, others to
hatred and fear. Dreams turn on a quarter note, a semiquaver, a vibrato unheard by any still living, by any mortal being.

Maria Lima

#57. What makes awe such a powerful call to love is that it's disruptive. It sneaks up on us. It doesn't ask our permission to wow us; it just does. Awe can arise from a single glance, a sound, a gesture.

Sharon Salzberg

#58. The goal is to avoid the hit of desire. But when I can't, when it sneaks up and grabs hold of me? Then the only thing to do is indulge it. And I'd be lying if I said I don't enjoy those times.

Alessandra Torre

#59. So I wonder if true love is more subtle. If it sneaks up or stands there next to you, and you don't recognize that it's true love until you turn and look at tis thing that's been right there with you all along, and you realize that you never want to be without it.

Kristin Walker

#60. I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.

P.G. Wodehouse

#61. I think when love sneaks up on you, when it grabs onto you when you least expect it, maybe that's more of a sign that it's real. That it's meant to be and nothing could stop the two of you from falling for each other.

Nyrae Dawn

#62. Trevor was as menacing as he was gorgeous. If he were a vampire, he'd be the dark kind, the kind that sneaks up on innocent girls and bites without a thought.

Ellen Schreiber

#63. life never comes straight at you, it sneaks up and gives you whatever it gives, not what you want. No matter what you think.

Bart Hopkins Jr.

#64. You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you've closed for the day and flips the board.

Mark Miller

#65. No self-respecting snoop sneaks in before midnight anyway.

Lindsay Buroker

#66. Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.

Jim Butcher

#67. See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds.

Henry David Thoreau

#68. Eternity sneaks in
her arms full of wild promises.

Rod McKuen

#69. The trouble you're expecting never happens; it's always something that sneaks up the other way.

George R. Stewart

#70. Sneaks, spies, defenders, heroes, masterminds, tenacious bastards - it doesn't matter what you call us. We're the ones who will do whatever it takes to stop those who believe they're entitled to wealth and power at the expense of others."
"The family business," Yelena said, smiling.

Maria V. Snyder

#71. Why is it that even when you're trying your hardest not to get attached, something still sneaks up on you?

Claire Cook

#72. Life sneaks up on us every once in a while and gives us something we didn't ever know we wanted, and lights within us a love we didn't even know existed.

Shauna Niequist

#73. Ryan Alvanos is an offbeat, insanely inventive singer-songwriter who sneaks up on you with a sly wit and subtle power.

Steve Morse

#74. It's always been you; it'll always be you Angel.

Kirsty Moseley