It surprises me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice. — Po Bronson 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
“so female in shape it was a surprise they’d not long since been rooted out.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When one has made his demands upon the Universal, he must be ready for surprises. Everything may seem to be going wrong,… — Florence Scovel Shinn Copy Share Image
She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her… — Mary Mapes Dodge Copy Share Image
The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Deadlines comes as a surprise…superb: a new genre, in fact, combining the pleasures of list-making with that of last-minute eaves-dropping. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“I like you both! And that's better than loving you, for that's expected, you know. But liking you, what a curious surprise.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises? — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I have been in Washington for a while now, and most things don't surprise me. The fact that twenty 6-year-olds were gunned… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“So I put my shoulder against the door, which was too little for me anyway, said a hearty fuck your mother to… — Danielle Bennett Copy Share Image
Most research into life's murky origin has been carried out by chemists. They've tried a variety of approaches in their attempts to… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
I can't explain the alchemy that transmuted one evening into the equivalent of years held lightly in common. The only way I… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I guess if there's one thing that might surprise people about me, it's that I'm very obedient. I'm kind of like a… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
I don't think it should be a surprise when we're talking about energy and trying to have more home-grown energy, be less… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life - much less intelligence - beyond this Earth does… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
My favorite thing about guitar, and the thing that always drew me to it when I was first learning to play it,… — Charlie Worsham Copy Share Image
All pain in life comes from wishing things were different than they are. Conversely, peace and happiness must come from accepting life… — Kristine Carlson Copy Share Image
People are in denial all the time, hiding things. If I tell you a racist or dirty joke and you laugh, you're… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
“One day as Father and I were returning from our walk we found the Grote Markt cordoned off by a double ring… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
Observe your cat. It is difficult to surprise him. Why? Naturally his superior hearing is part of the answer, but not all… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
If you apprentice yourself to the smartest people who will take you seriously, you will learn at every step. You'll learn their… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
