Best Surprise Qoutes
1610 Surprise quotes by 1241 unique authors
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We told them this morning and I think they (reacted) like you would expect. It was a surprise and the reality of this is very…
— Mike Jackson
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Social media provides us the opportunity to think before we 'speak', giving us a better shot at reasoned dialog. So it's not a huge surprise…
— Unknown Author
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Why are we inspired by another person's courage? Maybe because it gives us the sweet and genuine surprise of discovering some trace, at least, of…
— Laurence Shames
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If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure…
— Freya Stark
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An airplane might disappoint any pilot but it'll never surprise a good one.
— Len Morgan
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I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I…
— Pat Morita
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I was eleven years old when I saw a woman for the first time, and I was seized by such sudden surprise that I burst…
— Mia Couto
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You have only 30 seconds in a TV commercial. If you grab attention in the first frame with a visual surprise, you stand a better…
— David Ogilvy
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During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first few pages of…
— Patricia Briggs
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My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated…
— Bix Beiderbecke
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Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations.…
— Chris Hadfield
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Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that’s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.
— Chip Heath
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The Lord is always there waiting to give us his love: it is an amazing thing, one which never ceases to surprise us!
— Pope Francis
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The biggest failures come round and spring ultimate surprises of survival.
— Jack White
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Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets
— Patricia Cornwell
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The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and…
— Deb Caletti
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What's the impulse behind art? It's saying in whatever language is the language of your work, “If I could move you as much as it…
— Greil Marcus
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Listening is like running down a mountain on a switchback trail, the sound of surprise generating its own momentum. There’s a punk glee inside the…
— Greil Marcus
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Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that…
— James Weldon Johnson
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Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journey and…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there,…
— Evangelista Torricelli
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True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. "If I am not being…
— Carl Rogers
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Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways - in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters. More often, I have felt God's…
— Brian D. McLaren
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The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
— Ross Macdonald
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