Sudden change, even if it is for the good, is disruptive.
And then I went to visit my sister in the states and all of a sudden it was just like, it's like... it's like the movie Wizard of Oz when all of a sudden it changes from Black and White to glorious Technicolor.
Sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years without feeling new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with.
We know how in football everything changes quickly. It doesn't take too long to lose one game.
That's something that rationally and logically I can't try to figure out, how somebody "transitions" so rapidly and so drastically, but I don't worry about it now.
How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just so, and then without warning you find the solid floor is a trapdoor and you are now in another place whose geography is uncertain and whose customs are strange?
History doesn't crawl; it leaps.
One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.
One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next moment a star!
Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.
There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward.
Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but turned and went swiftly from the hall.
He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.
I try to remind myself that all of this could be over tomorrow, because I could wake up and magically be 35 feet tall and not be able to act in movies anymore.
There was a time I wanted to go into politics. And so all of a sudden, here I am, I guess. I'm in the thick of it.
Jez had gone from an evil twin to a sweet, even angelic, girl, all in less than a minute.
The scariest thing of all is never knowing what you're suddenly going to believe.
Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
Small changes lead to big ones. But big changes - trying to become a different person overnight - usually lead to defeat.
How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change. With nothing causing it.
Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime ... something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life.
There are moments when things just break apart and not really for very valid reasons, either. But they just change your life and make you go in different directions.
The flight was extremely normal... for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting.
The most profound moments in politics usually happen unexpectedly.
