“Ricky just listens. He isn't shocked. He isn't surprised. He listens to me because he knows. He knows the shame and the… — Emily Andrews Copy Share Image
The invention of the micro-loan was a big surprise to me. Who would have guessed loans of less than $20 made to… — Joel A. Barker Copy Share Image
It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Traditional corporations, particularly large-scale service and manufacturing businesses are organized for efficiency. Or consistency. But not joy. Joy comes from surprise and… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns. Life asks of us the same thing we have been asked in… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
To be an anarchist only means that you believe that aggression is not justified, and that states necessarily employ aggression. And, therefore,… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
I actually am grateful for Freddy Krueger, because the big surprise to me - with that sort of double punch of science… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
“When you come to a point where nothing looks surprising to you, you can then analyse the matters calmly and with much… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Please don’t do this—don’t do this to me. If anything happened to you—” He looked at her with surprise. There was already… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
We're not in cultures which support learning; we're in cultures that give us the message consistently: "Don't mess up, don't make mistakes,… — Walter Wriston Copy Share Image
I hate my birthday. I don't like to celebrate it much. But, if someone wants to throw me a surprise party, that… — Sophie Copy Share Image
“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me. — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was… — Malin Akerman Copy Share Image
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