Startles Me Quotes

#1. I could heal you-"
"No," he says, sharply enough that it startles me. "Everyone is dead. Gavin, Jedro, Melita ... All gone. My life, my friends. I lived for the blink of an eye. But I've been dying for a very long time.

Rae Carson

#2. I'm thinking that I like you, and that's a problem for me."
His serious tone startles me. "Why's it a problem?"
"Because I don't like people," he says bluntly. "I deal with people.

J.M. Darhower

#3. I love you," Julius observed at last. "To a degree that frankly startles me.

K.J. Charles

#4. The starkness of this truth startles me, illuminates an awareness in me of something I could not - or would not - acknowledge before.

I cannot let you die, because I cannot face a future without you.

Julie Eshbaugh

#5. I heard my name." Ash's voice startles me. "You tow better not be making fun of me about this stupid bra Mama's making me wear. I've had it with the jokes. I'll break both your noses if it doesn't stop.

Abbi Glines

#6. I scarcely remember counting upon happiness - I look not for it if it be not in the present hour - nothing startles me beyond the moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel.

John Keats

#7. Bess stepped back and looked at Nancy admiringly. 'Your hunches are so often right it startles me.

Carolyn Keene

#8. And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.

Cy Twombly

#9. Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. The way to use life is to do nothing through acting, The way to use life is to do everything through being.

Laozi

#11. A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.

T. E. Hulme

#12. But "ma'am" doesn't translate in the North, where it just startles and offends.

Rob Sheffield

#13. Sometimes he sits at your feet looking into your face with an expression so gentle and caressing that the depth of his gaze startles you.

Theophile Gautier

#14. ....he has done nothing but prove to me that not only is he a good man, he's a man madly in love with my daughter, and will do anything to protect her.

Sam Crescent

#15. I catch a glimpse of his abdomen. Yummy. "Yummy tummy."
He startles. "What?"
"Hmm?

Stephanie Perkins

#16. Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.

C.S. Lewis

#17. To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you ... a truth ... that used to elude you.

Norman Mailer

#18. It's got to be a pretty boring life, hasn't it, being a hat?

J.K. Rowling

#19. The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in ju-jitsu, his own effort is turned into the lever of his overthrow.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#20. In language that's lyrical and haunting, Cheryl Strayed writes about bliss and loss, about the kind of grace that startles and transforms us in ordinary moments.

Ursula Hegi

#21. From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

Jones Very

#22. he ordered, eyes lingering on the Tiste Andii.

Steven Erikson

#23. Cultivate the habit of laughter.

Og Mandino

#24. the sapphire depth
of my own love...startles
and warms
and wounds my soul.

Sanober Khan

#25. There's something about blue eyes.
The kind of blue that startles you every time they're lifted in your direction. The kind of blue that makes you ache for them to look at you again. Not the blue green or blue gray, the blue that's just blue.
Cricket has those eyes.

Stephanie Perkins

#26. No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force and presence, startles you, takes you by surprise, as would a ghost suddenly appearing in the room wearing familiar perfume and boots.

Lorrie Moore

#27. Poetry is like an unexpected noise in the night: the creak of a door, a footstep on the porch, the soft scuffle of a moth against the screen, which rouses every sense to an instant alert. So comes poetry to the drowsy mind, which startles a moment, wonders, and returns to sleep.

Christopher Morley

#28. I take improv classes. Improv is something I can use in any aspect of life.

Vinny Guadagnino

#29. I thinking? Internet-stalking was for the old Alayna Withers. I would not stoop to that level. Hudson wanted me with him. Always. What other proof did I

Laurelin Paige

#30. I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me (Jer. 32:40b). That is a different kind of fear from the one that startles you. God promises to put it in you - not to shake and undermine your assurance, but to guard and maintain it.

John Flavel

#31. (Giving your mother-in-law a gift is a good idea, but paying her for a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner is not recommended, even if both gestures would cost you the same amount of money.)

Dan Ariely

#32. I press my face to the window, and I think to myself, There will never be another day like this day. This day will end. Everything passes in front of me with alarming speed, and though I recognize the splendour of the trees and the radiance of the sun, I am detached. This startles and unsettles me.

Kate Mulgrew

#33. The first snow always startles. It covers the tricycle in the driveway, turning its frame into an abstact sculpture that says: See how quickly yesterday turns into today.

Peggy Noonan

#34. By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.

Roger Mahony

#35. I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

Jimmy Wales