“Giddy's answer did not surprise her, even as it did. Knowing and not knowing.” — Heather McGowan Copy Share Image
Don't judge people until you truly know them. The truth might surprise you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Disaster can take a nation by surprise, slowly, and then all at once. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
History , as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“4. Help somebody (like your mom or dad or teacher) without being asked. Now that’s a nice surprise!” — Betty G. Birney Copy Share Image
I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find. — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I always like to come with stuff people don't expect me to. I like the element of surprise. — Da Brat Copy Share Image
Geniuses are people who notice things and connections between things which others haven't noticed. Genius must be a surprise. — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image
Surprise is joy, a way to feel, beyond the feelings, of my heart to yield. Surprise is life that cannot sleep. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All this was new to me. Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move towards the unknown - even when… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
With writing music, as a general rule I'm looking for something that surprises me, that doesn't fall within what's easy for me. — John Maus Copy Share Image
What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A handful of cherished… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The city bursts with ideas as with traffic, a swirl of newness and surprise. Who can be bored in a city? If… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
The essence of the ludicrous consists in surprise,--in unexpected terms of feeling and explosions of thought,--often bringing dissimilar things together with a… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with… — Francis Thompson Copy Share Image
When you build a building, you finish a building. You don't finish a garden; you start it, and then it carries on… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
People live in a place called Tornado Alley - and they're surprised when they get hit by a tornado. I'm sorry when… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
I always get a little bit pissed off when stand-up comedy is not recognised as being as good a craft as being… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
“People are unpredictable and predictable at the same time: it seems that whenever you want someone to surprise you they remain themselves,… — Helen Hiorns Copy Share Image
Nothing is secure. That is my message. Nothing can be secure, because a secure life will be worse than death. Nothing is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Change is a constant. Anything you get attached to will one day be gone. Love the things you love as best as… — Eric Lange Copy Share Image
“It was after a Frontline television documentary screened in the US in 1995 that the Freyds' public profile as aggrieved parents provoked… — Judith Jones Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise. — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past. — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
