#sudden

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#day #difficult #difficult task #every #every day

I was traveling in Europe with Paul and suddenly realized my passport still said I was Mrs. Sampson. ↗

— Shelley Duvall

#i #mrs #passport #paul #realized

No great thing is created suddenly. ↗

— Epictetus

#great #great thing #suddenly #thing

No greater thing 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

Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents. ↗

— Roger Federer

#before #case #completely #dad #dependent

Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#any #certain #certain things #church #early

You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty. ↗

— John le Carre

#boy #class family #clothes #dirty #down