The Western concept of democracy is based on the idea that the loser of an election has the possibility next time round… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Sometimes the world sits at a corner and waits for you to fail! Surprise the world! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.” — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
So it's possible that someday, by understanding a little bit more about how the world works, it will come back to help… — Saul Perlmutter Copy Share Image
It is not surprising that honest and well-informed experts can disagree about facts. But beyond the disagreement about facts, there is another… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I'm learning so much, I'm surprising myself everyday with the things that are happening, the rhythms. I'm very happy and very excited. — Kate del Castillo Copy Share Image
Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
If you look at my life before I went into television, the struggle I went through coming out would be surprising to… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
If we mammals don't get something to eat every day or two, our temperature drops, all our signs fall off, and we… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising. — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
God takes great delight in surprising His people with His goodness. He delights in being there for us, in coming through for… — John Paul Jackson Copy Share Image
Playing Lissa was the most thrilling, terrifying, uplifting, fulfilling, surprising, and experience of my life. — Lucy Fry Copy Share Image
Religious faith in the case of the Hindus has never been allowed to run counter to scientific laws, moreover the former is… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
It's that same quality I've been talking about. It's neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“Inspector Milne's suspicious prying appeared to have awakened her inner Bolshevik, and so I discovered my own lady mother is not above… — Elizabeth Wein 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 come from a very expressive family, so it's really not surprising that we became actors. There was a lot of real-life… — John Turturro Copy Share Image
I don't hate it here," she said automatically. Surprising herself, she realized that as much as she'd been trying to convince herself… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
It is not surprising that only one medieval state, Venice, long possessed anything clearly identifiavble as a navy in this sense. We… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The surprising thing is that I was not funny in high school. I was always jealous of the funny kids because they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The body is a reservoir of all sorts of tensions and dark forces. And it's also the potential source of amazing energy.… — Bill T. Jones Copy Share Image
Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
