Top Startled Quotes
Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.
Robert Collier
He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.
Jack Kroll
A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.
Raymond Chandler
I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.
Jonathan Miller
Robert Collier 
Marcel Marceau 
Hugh Leonard 
W. Somerset Maugham 
Ralph Waldo Emerson 
Raymond Chandler 
Oliver Wendell Holmes All Startled Quotes
Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.
Robert Collier 
66% of people like this quote
He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.
Jack Kroll
56% of people like this quote
A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
55% of people like this quote
She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.
Raymond Chandler
54% of people like this quote
I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.
Jonathan Miller
53% of people like this quote
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
52% of people like this quote
We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were.
Hugh Leonard
52% of people like this quote
It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.
David Rockefeller
50% of people like this quote