That's what I love about history - nuance. I don't believe in unalloyed heroes. Everyone's got warts, and everyone's got a surprise… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Don't invite me to a surprise birthday party. I don't have room for that secret. I've got enough real secrets I have… — Matt Besser Copy Share Image
“At my age, I’m still not surrendering to boredom,” Brother Clément said. “I’m open to a surprise or two. Why settle for… — Jean-Pierre Alaux Copy Share Image
“i hope god isn't always watching - there are a few things i want to surprise him with - you being one… — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
When you get lots of players up front, sometimes a counter-attack can take you by surprise and lead to a chance for… — Cesar Azpilicueta Copy Share Image
Buying my wife a gun sort of like me saying, ' You know, I kinda want to kill myself, but I want… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
People aren't expecting me to look how I do. But that's one of the main reasons it works so well: the surprise… — Murda Beatz Copy Share Image
Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Labels and classifications of any type are not law, nor are they written in stone. It's up to us to be aware… — Clemantine Wamariya Copy Share Image
On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Unless I'm a little bit scared about something, I'm genuinely not actually entirely happy. I feel I need to be just that… — Jack Reynor Copy Share Image
... it would be impossible for women to stand in higher estimation than they do here. The deference that is paid to… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“What is essential is to suddenly make a move totally unexpected by the opponent, pick up on the advantage of fright, and… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
I’d never seen a man cry before, only on TV. I’d never even seen Dad close to crying. Those tears looked so… — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
Washington was taken by surprise by the Egyptian revolution because policy experts focused too much on Mubarak and his government, and too… — Cynthia P. Schneider Copy Share Image
Now, some people do this for shock value. Shock is just another uptown word for surprise. Granted it has a different quality… — George Carlin 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
On many occasions I have been asked if I think persecution will come to the Western church. My answer might surprise you.… — Brother Yun 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
I think the Occupy movement will, or at least should, become a protean movement of ideas, as well as action, where the… — Arundhati Roy 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
The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
The thrills, the turmoil, the passion, the stunning surprises of that roller coaster ride in '72 caused our emotions to run wild — Harry Sinden Copy Share Image
Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us. — George Leonard Copy Share Image
“There is nothing I love more than traveling to a place where I know nobody and where everything will be a surprise,… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of what Marvel did, it's no surprise for anyone to know that as a child I was a… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
When I was 4 years old ... I dreamt that I'd been eaten by a wolf, and to my great surprise I… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.” — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
Sometimes people can surprise you. Sometimes they have a great capacity to hear the truth. — Joe Seneca Copy Share Image
No surprise that, as companies have adopted social media en masse, demand for software and applications to manage and monitor social use… — Ryan Holmes Copy Share Image
Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Carlton Cole is no surprise to me anymore. For me, some of the bits he does are unbelievable. — Gianfranco Zola Copy Share Image
That so many binary or quasi-binary KBOs exist came as a real surprise to the research community. — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
“The only appropriate state of mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of heart is joy.” — Terry Prachett Copy Share Image
“If I shot an arrow and thought about an ass, would it surprise you if it hit Erik?” — P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast Copy Share Image
Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
It doesnt take much to surprise others, but to surprise oneself, now that is a great feat. — Kristen Hartley Copy Share Image
