Quotes about Startled
At midnight, Boaz was startled, turned over, and there lying at his feet was a woman!
- Ruth 3:8
When Zechariah saw him, he was startled and gripped with fear.
- Luke 1:12
But they were startled and frightened, thinking they had seen a spirit.
- Luke 24:37
It was the present moment. No one need wonder that Orlando started, pressed her hand to her heart, and turned pale. For what more terrifying revelation can there be than that it is the present moment?
- Virginia Woolf
I dont suppose you have any glasses. They're in the kitchen. Western started to get up. I dont think you want to go back there. He sat back down again. It aint a pretty sight. Sink's so full of dishes you got to go outside to take a leak.
- Cormac McCarthy
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
One reads of no one who burst forth into bolder or more unbridled contempt of deity than Gaius Caligula; yet no one trembled more miserably when any sign of God's wrath manifested itself; thus—albeit unwillingly—he shuddered at the God whom he professedly sought to despise. You may see now and again how this also happens to those like him; how he who is the boldest despiser of God is of all men the most startled at the rustle of a falling leaf.
- John Calvin