Top 245 Startling Quotes & Sayings

Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.

There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.

Mort(e) is wonderful and weird, never saccharine and always startling.

The miracle is this: that you will rise in the morning and be able to see again the startling beauty of the day.

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.

As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers.

When you reach a certain age, suddenly there are lots of people younger than you, which is really startling.

STARTLING & INVENTIVE...This is not a movie that lets go of you easily.

Our consciousness, a startling outgrowth of the universe, is possibly its most important part, the fraction of existence that can think, feel, marvel at itself.

When I did my research on this topic, I came to the startling conclusion that the Federal Reserve System does not need to be audited - it needs to be abolished.

In the 1970's and in early 1980's, a startling discovery was made that almost every problem contains an element of solutions.

I don't think I've ever made a claim to startling originality.

The most startling aspect of the nutrition situation in India is that it is not much of an issue in public debates and electoral politics.

It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation.

When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.

A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.

During the investigation evidence of the vulnerability of women in the modelling profession was startling and models are at high risk of eating disorders.

As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.

It is a startling and solemnizing fact that even as late as the twentieth century, the Great Command of Jesus Christ to carry the Gospel to all mankind is still so largely unfulfilled.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors.

Above all, a well-imagined story is organized around extraordinary human behaviors and unexpected and startling events, which help illuminate the commonplace and the ordinary.

Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.

What made Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein such creative geniuses? It wasn't reading books or watching YouTube talks about How To Be More Creative, that's for sure... If startling insights could be systematically arrived at, they wouldn't be startling. The best you can do is to create a conducive environment: put in the hours; take time to daydream; avoid mind-corroding substances.

It is a world of startling possibilities.

I always want to see films that are startling and amazing. Not just shocking. Shocking is easy to do. But startling in the way that makes you change how you think about things. Those are the movies I like the best.

Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas.

Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.

The world may hold startling developments and shocking unknowns.

The city of Pittsburgh gleaming suddenly before her . . . so startling in its vastness and its beauty that she had gasped and slowed, afraid of losing control of the car

I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.

It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.

A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.

To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.

A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery.

It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings.

New York is this cacophony - a collection of radical differences, an agreement of non sequiturs. The diversity and intensity are startling.

You can make startling changes you can’t even conceive of right now, if you just give yourself half a chance.

You know it's always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.

God knew where he was, but he asked so as to start a conversation with Adam and avoid startling him too much to reply.

I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has come utterly to depend upon it.

When you actually see Barack Obama, it's startling how slight he is and how young he looks.

A friend of mine said that when Barack Obama was running for president, there was a whole generation of white kids who are used to looking up to a black person center stage speaking. And that's because of hip-hop. So there was no adjustment. A person of color in authority at times is very startling to people. But as time goes on, it becomes less startling.

So the best marriages and the deepest relationships with God grow out of the startling discovery that there is nothing one can do to earn love, and even more startling, that there is also nothing one can do to unlearn it, or to keep oneself from being loved. This is a religious awakening that is utterly different from any other religious experience, no matter how profoundly spiritual it may seem.

With ferocity and extraordinary craft, Lizzie Harris has made a book of poems that resonates far beyond the personal stories it tells. Stop Wanting reveals, in every lyric, its author's profound metaphorical gifts. In its ironies and intensities, it brings to mind a writer like the young Sylvia Plath, though what is startling about Harris' s work is the way it combines those gifts with a muted, deft self-awareness. Most of all, these are wonderfully shaped, powerful, and surprising poems-a startling debut.

The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

Jesus!" Luke exclaimed. "Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.

It was a startling task to undertake, for the Book of Mormon had never been illustrated before, at least on any professional level. There were no precedents.

The startling reality of things is my discovery every single day.

Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

A startling confession for a food writer: all through high school, I struggled with a severe eating disorder.

All you do is pull the pin, and it releases a startling alarm that can get you out of a bad situation.

Any Canadian looking in the bathroom mirror is sure to recognize one of Guy Vanderhaeghe's people. Man Descending is the startling debut of an excellent writer.

It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling — or new. The character itself of being startling, spectacular, or upsetting has become conventionalized, part of safe good taste.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Perhaps the most startling reversal of tradition came in the case of Lefty Grove. He shattered the cruel slanders which have always followed lefthanders.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

Marian Palaia is a writer of startling grace and sensuous lyricism - reading her, you feel as if you've never heard language this beautiful and this true.