It's that element of surprise. When you lose control, you discover new things. — Daniel Lanois Copy Share Image
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The biggest surprise to me is many members in Congress don't actually work. — Marjorie Taylor Greene Copy Share Image
When life gets you down, stand up and surprise those around you who expected you to fall. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the age of 19, you always think you are prepared for everything and you think you have the knowledge of what?s… — Princess Diana Copy Share Image
During a set back, don't sit back in self pity instead tell your heart to beat again! Nothing that happens to you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This man's wife told him, "For Christmas, surprise me." On Christmas Eve he leaned over where she was sleeping and said, "Boo!" — Milton Berle Copy Share Image
I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish — Sanaa Lathan Copy Share Image
When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
Uncle Jeb," we croaked in surprise. "You found us." "Well, now," he said, and his gruff voice brought back a hundred memories.… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I've done really well so far in my career by trusting the audience to be as dissatisfied with convention as I am,… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I think all human beings can surprise themselves when they are in situations where they are tested. That's when you see your… — Alesha Dixon Copy Share Image
If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people, you will be surprised at how many good… — Alan Loy McGinnis Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I kept hoping that I wasn't really gay because I wanted to have children. I went through… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Words have divided man from woman, one from another, this from that, until only sages know how to put things together. Without… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Slang has different functions: many of the words we use are playful and a lot are tribal - we speak the same… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you'll remove the log from your own eyes and to your amazement; you will see that your friend has no speck… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The lifelong health problems of John F. Kennedy constitute one of the best-kept secrets of recent U.S. history - no surprise, because… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Commonplace people have an answer for everything and nothing ever surprises them. They try to look as though they knew what you… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Sunglasses must be kept on until an acquaintance is identified at one of the tables, but one must not appear to be… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
Every time he plays, Leo Messi reminds me more of Maradona, both left-footed and short, Messi is the best player in the… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
But somewhere, a child surprises himself with his endurance, his quick mind, his dexterous hands. Somewhere a child accomplishes with ease that… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have… — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
The first thing I ever thought of when I thought of Buffy , the movie, was the little...blonde girl who goes into… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
It's been an incredible few weeks for Emma Pooley, first winning three stages in the Giro Rosa to demonstrate that she's the… — Emma Pooley Copy Share Image
During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“so female in shape it was a surprise they’d not long since been rooted out.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise. — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises. — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
It surprises me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice. — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
