Startles Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Jones Very

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Stephanie Perkins

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Rob Sheffield

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Carolyn Keene

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Sanober Khan

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

Cy Twombly

#24. 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

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

K.J. Charles

#26. I'm introverted by nature, and I need to have some things of my own.

Debby Ryan

#27. Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."

Mahatma Gandhi

#28. Like many of you, I've always been slightly obsessed with vampires, dating back to the prime-time series 'Dark Shadows,' which I followed avidly as a kid.

Bill Condon

#29. The virus altered the the eye of the beholder. That this change came at the expense of the beheld suggests that beauty in nature does not necessarily bespeak health, nor necessarily redound to the benefit of the beautiful.

Michael Pollan

#30. What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#31. There is only one way to gain access to the truth and that is to not expect anything.

Robert De Niro

#32. I'm fighting for Marine Le Pen to become president.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

#33. We need to be acquainted with the promptings of the Holy Ghost, and we need to practice and apply gospel teachings until they become natural and automatic. These promptings become the foundation of our testimonies. Then our testimonies will keep us happy and safe in troubled times.

Allan F. Packer

#34. Sometimes your dreams come true.

Frank Bruno

#35. Proper and effective time management is the best way to make it in life

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