#suddenly

If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens. ↗

— Brad Bird

#certain #certain way #happens #leg #little

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

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

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

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

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#atomic #atomic bombs #been #bombs #dark

The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person. ↗

— Julie Christie

#around #away #fabric #first #i

For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#comes #day #doing #door #himself