Sneaking Up Quotes:

Grace has a way of sneaking up on you like that. When you least deserve it.

- Cathleen Falsani

source: Cathleen Falsani (2008). “Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace”, p.15, Harper Collins

topic: Grace, Way, Sneaking Up

Life has a funny way of helping you out when you think that everything's gone wrong.

- Alanis Morissette

topic: Thinking, Gone, Way, Sneaking Up

Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you When you think everything's okay and everything's going right And life has a funny way of helping you out when You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up In your face

- Alanis Morissette

source: Song: Isn't It Ironic, Album: Jagged Little Pill, 1995

topic: Life, Blow, Thinking, Sneaking Up

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

- Dag Hammarskjold

source: "As I Journey on: Meditations for Those Facing Death". Book by Cindy Rogers and Sharon Dardis, 2000.

topic: Funny, Death, Party, Sneaking Up, Tiptoes

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

- Boris Johnson

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Night, Cheese, Middle, Fridges, Sneaking Up

So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you.

- Julie Powell

topic: Mean, Long, May, Sneaking Up

I don't like to be the guy that stands out. I like kind of sneaking up on guys instead of being out front.

- Roy Oswalt

topic: Guy, Kind, Standing Out, Sneaking Up

I can say now is that sneaking up on people is a major delight in my old age, but it always has been. A desire, even a need, to shock.

- Patricia McConnell

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: People, Age, Desire, Sneaking Up

Ethical dilemmas have a way of sneaking up on a person. If something smells funny, stay away from it. Or help get rid of it.

- Price Pritchett

topic: Funny, Smell, Way, Sneaking Up, Ethical Dilemmas

...it has been well said that it is precisely these moments when we are feeling that ours is the world and everything that's in it that Fate selects for sneaking up on us with the rock in the stocking.

- P. G. Wodehouse

source: P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “Full Moon: (Blandings Castle)”, p.214, Random House

topic: Fate, Rocks, Feelings, Sneaking Up

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey. ... Prey, on the other hand, have eyes at the sides of their heads, because what they really need is peripheral vision, so they can tell when something is sneaking up behind them. Something like us.

- Diane Ackerman

topic: Eye, Mirrors, Sight, Sneaking Up, Peripheral Vision

What would he imagine next? Little hairy beasties tap-dancing on his sofa, or other fey creatures sneaking up on him in the shower?’ (Syn)

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

source: Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Fire”, p.23, Macmillan

topic: Dancing, Littles, Next, Sneaking Up, Tap Dancing

Sneaking up on it sometimes helps: I've found I can be very productive for an hour before dinner, because there obviously isn't enough time to really do anything, so I can tell myself I'm just screwing around.

- Michael Crichton

topic: Writing, Dinner, Enough Time, Sneaking Up

Once I started working with the Polaroid, I would take a shot and if that shot was good, then I'd move the model and change the lighting or whatever... slowly sneaking up on what I wanted rather than having to predetermine what it was.

- Chuck Close

topic: Change, Moving, Polaroids, Sneaking Up

Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind.

- Patrick Ness

source: Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

topic: Different, Shapes, Clubs, Sneaking Up

It is often to the wary that the events in life are unexpected. Looser types-people who are not busy weighing and measuring every little thing-are used to accidents, coincidences, chance, things getting out of hand, things sneaking up on them. They are the happy children of life, to whom life happens for better or worse.

- Laurie Colwin

topic: Happiness, Children, Hands, Sneaking Up, Weighing

I would have liked to catch hold of sleep at least once, just as I had been resolved to catch hold of death one day, to catch hold of the wings of the angel of sleep when it came for me, to grab it with two fingers like a butterfly after sneaking up on it from behind. [...] My sleep game was practice for the grand struggle with death.

- Danilo Kis

topic: Struggle, Butterfly, Sleep, Sneaking Up

Everything felt fragile and freshly come upon, but for now, at least, my depression had stepped back, giving me room to move forward. I had forgotten what it was like to be without it, and for a moment I floundered, wondering how I would recognize myself. I knew for certain it would return, sneaking up on me when I wasn’t looking, but meanwhile there were bound to be glimpses of light if only I stayed around and held fast to the long perspective. It was a chance that seemed worth taking.

- Daphne Merkin

topic: Moving, Light, Long, Sneaking Up