I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.
I was in a struggling team in League One and I've seen how tough it is when you are trying to scrape out points at the bottom of the league.
The Buddha’s dharma didn’t teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening—often rude awakening.
Remember that that "rude awakening" which your parents and well-meaning relatives threatened you with as a kid is better than no awakening at all.
Have you ever known me to be rude to a lady?" "I have seen you be intentionally rude to a woman. I have never seen you be rude to a lady.
Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.
The rude awakening I got was that this country can determine the fate of anyone by using propaganda on a public that is hungry for lies.
You don't want to move in with someone and find out that they don't have auto or health insurance. That's a rude awakening.
Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination.
After my parents got divorced, I had to go right into public school in the fourth grade. The Steiner school had never really taught me how to read, so it was a rude awakening. I was playing catch-up the whole time.
I have a good visual memory. I'm good with faces, but names - I get in trouble a lot; I can't seem to remember people. People think I'm rude. As a side comment, you know, I'm not being rude: I just kind of blank out.
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
Anybody that thinks hanging out with Snoop is fun, is cool, you're in for a rude awakening because he is the most down to earth, boring dude ever.
When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.
It's rude to not try and look up-to-date. Is rude the right word? Yes! It's rude - rude to other people.
Eventually your boobs grow and you can't run anymore, and that was a really rude awakening.