Surprised Quotes

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Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised — Daniel Defoe
Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you… — Frank Herbert
In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life. — Jeffrey Eugenides
I struggled in my mind with all kinds of defenses. Should I be hurt? Surprised? Should I laugh it off? I wanted to say something… — Jeanette Winterson
It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools. — Henry James
Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage at… — Cormac McCarthy
Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long… — Barbara Mertz
Do you think that people ever really do believe they will die, that the world will just go along as always without them? I wonder… — Elizabeth Berg
We have this idea that love is supposed to last forever. But love isn't like that. It's a free-flowing energy that comes and goes when… — Neil Strauss
Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised. — Steve Aylett
If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised. — Dorothy Parker
I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes. — Chuck Palahniuk
Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as I would have… — Arthur Golden
You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it. — Sarah Dessen
You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart." "And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so… — Tamora Pierce
She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me. "Be… — Rick Riordan
Some things are so impossible, so fantastic, that when they happen, you are not at all surprised. Their sheer impossibility has made you imagine them… — Andrew Sean Greer
Unlike me, Renee was not shy; she was a real people-pleaser. She worried way too much what people thought of her, wore her heart on… — Rob Sheffield

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