#sudden

I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I? ↗

— Otto Dix

#beside #bullet #dead #directly #experience

When you look at facing retirement in your mid-30s, and all of a sudden the outlet for that passion and work ethic goes away, you can't just sit back in a rocking chair and be retired at 35. I'm not a good enough golfer to play golf every day. ↗

— Drew Bledsoe

#back #chair #day #enough #ethic

I guess if you're a normal person and all of a sudden you're getting $10 million a year, it can go to your head. ↗

— Andrew Bogut

#go #guess #head #i #million

I would find myself, not necessarily always assigning these little bits of music for here or there, but all of a sudden something would fall into place and it would be exactly that. ↗

— William Bolcom

#bits #exactly #fall #find #here

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. ↗

— Epictetus

#any #bear #blossom #bunch #created

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. ↗

— Robert Browning

#stung #sudden #thought

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#enemy #going #imagination #our #over

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl? ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#because #blush #bodily #brow #dead

The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times. ↗

— James Buchan

#antiquity #commerce #cycle #famine #feast

They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#best #bikes #could #fathers #felt