#sudden

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#before #begin #encounter #even #first

You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you're not 'professional' any more. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#moon #more #office #party #person

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#call #comes #dammed #degree #happiness

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people. ↗

— Judy Garland

#feel #feeling #four #front #ill

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#gradual #hell #hell is #milestones #road

You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#compelled #explore #finger #fully #life

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#companions #flight #great men #heights #kept

A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this! ↗

— Theresa May

#issue #lot #men #politics #realised

You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#being #could #doing #epitome #find

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#day #even #heart #one day #realize