All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest,… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
I don't suggest that the observations are surprising or profound. Rather, they seem to me the merest truisms. I was not aware… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is an odd fact that what we now know of the mental and emotional life of infants surpasses what we comprehend… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
When filled with God's love, we can do and see and understand things that we could not otherwise do or see or… — John H. Groberg Copy Share Image
I just like surprising people. I never want to get to a place where people see that I am in a movie… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
What I had not counted on was discovering how closely a man could come to dying and still not die, or want… — Richard E. Byrd Copy Share Image
Above all, it's never blind chance: it's a chance that is always planned, but also always surprising. And I need it in… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
One can get very fond of the people one meets in bars. The trouble is they then appear sort of different in… — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share Image
Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
It is indeed surprising that a man inspite of his belief in the Fire of Jahannum is still able to laugh, and… — Moses Copy Share Image
What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists. — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Indian politics has a way of taking a curious turn and surprising the wisest of pundits. — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful? — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
I hope I'm always surprising people, and I hope I'm always surprising myself. — Bishop Briggs Copy Share Image
“Karma has a surprising way of taking care of these situations. All you have to do is sit back and watch.” — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
My children just want to get at the world; it is so pleasantly surprising to witness that. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I don't see myself outside Atletico; something very surprising would have to happen. — Saul Niguez Copy Share Image
Even with all of its changing, Brooklyn's architecture still feels like home, the language feels like home. It's changing so quickly that… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to… — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
Specifically, doing shows, I have this tendency - at least in the early days - to really zero in on somebody who… — Bridget Everett Copy Share Image
There is a way of the Spirit unknown to the natural mind. No barrier can keep you from finding His best except… — Frances J Roberts 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
It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. I have had twenty-five or thirty souls, with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So here's my advice to city planners. Make your city runnable. Runners are the first wave of troops bringing human activity back… — Don Kardong Copy Share Image
Here in Brussels, we did everything to accommodate David Cameron's concerns. My collaborators and I personally spent countless days and nights negotiating… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty… — Gertrude Bacon Copy Share Image
If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
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