Best Surprise Quotes
1610 Surprise quotes by 1241 unique authors
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Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a…
— Margaret Cho
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers,…
— Jean Cocteau
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It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.
— Pamela Anderson
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
— Florence Nightingale
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Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprise at the large number that re-enlist.
— James Garner
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When one would make a surprise attack on the enemy, he should avoid the major roads and seek out the lesser ones. Then attack.
— Takeda Nobushige
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Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some…
— Charles Brent
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The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great…
— Salman Rushdie
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Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority.
— Bill Gates
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Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Buying my wife a gun sort of like me saying, ' You know, I kinda want to kill myself, but I want it to be…
— Marc Maron
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When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate…
— Sun Tzu
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The nicest Father's Day surprise of all for Dad would be if you handed him a box, and he unwrapped it, and there, inside, sitting…
— Dave Barry
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Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.
— Dinah Shore
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I don't think we surprise people. We try to out-execute them.
— Mike Krzyzewski
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Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you are going to…
— Betty Friedan
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With some basic skills, ambition and persistence, then there is little limit to what you can achieve, and by trying you can often surprise yourself.
— Joe Gold
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That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap…
— Paul Fleischman
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Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves.
— H E Bates
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Life is a series of surprises.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my passions are not…
— Lord Byron
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The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible.…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and may…
— Joan Didion
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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try…
— Condoleezza Rice
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