Abruptly Quotes
Some endings arrive without any warning.
These quotes each describe something ending or shifting abruptly — a musical closing early, a policy reversing course, a character's fate changing without notice. It shares ground with Building quotes, since most of these describe something built up before it was cut short.
I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.
In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.
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I'm upset that 'Dastaan' is ending. After working so hard, to see it end abruptly is painful.
After spending the 1980s building up Saddam's Iraq as a counterweight to Iran, U.S. policy abruptly reversed course with his invasion of Kuwait and has since tried to cut him down to size. The policy is called 'containment,' but the...
Ale Quotes
Maids in India have egos. Big egos. They do not like being spoken to curtly, and they do not like to be abruptly instructed by a woman they do not know. They come with the feeling that they already know...
I was doing a Broadway musical called 'Smile' with Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch in 1984/5 when it abruptly closed. Howard was in the middle of pre-production for 'The Little Mermaid,' so he kindly invited all the girls in our...
When the government is handed over to the Iraqi Council on 30 June, many have declared, oh, the Americans must never leave because civil unrest may erupt. Well, I agree, we cannot abruptly depart, but Iraq needs to step up...
I was taken to a boarding school when I was four years old and taken away from my mother and my father, my grandparents, who I stayed with most of the time, and just abruptly taken away and then put...
I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.
Appreciate Quotes
My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.
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A few touch on how abrupt instructions or changes feel to the person on the receiving end, a theme also found in Appreciate quotes about noticing what's lost. Others are more historical, closer in tone to Ale quotes on old routines interrupted.
