Surprising Quotes

507 Surprising quotes by 449 unique authors

Love is our only reason for living and the only purpose of life. We live for the sake of love, and we live seeking love...… — Swami Muktananda
We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to… — Aldous Huxley
A lot of people have been quite surprised with the stuff that I'm doing on my own, which shocks me because I've always known what… — Melanie Chisholm
It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world. — Stephen Gardiner
I had a mother I could only seem to please with verbal accomplishments of some sort or another. She read constantly, so I read constantly.… — Amy Hempel
If I'm in a relationship, I'm 1,000% in it. I love doing things for them and surprising them. And that's just something I thoroughly enjoy… — Josh Henderson
I had never heard much about Nashville before coming out here, and that's why it's so surprising, because I'm the biggest enthusiast on the city… — Garrett Hedlund
When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else. — Howard Hodgkin
But any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies or platforms that have a surprising… — Trip Hawkins
I don't intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer. — Bong Joon-ho
I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I… — Anselm Kiefer
Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be surprising that object… — George Lakoff
It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism,… — Meles Zenawi
What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists. — Jean-Marie Le Pen
To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet: it's just too… — Marianne Boruch
It's really surprising that what you put on paper, people will believe. — Chaske Spencer
By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture… — James Henry Breasted
England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and… — Stephen Daldry
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn… — Seneca the Younger
Put the right pitching mechanics together with good health, and there's nothing surprising about lasting a long time. — Nolan Ryan
I knew I'd miss you. But the surprising thing is, you never leave me. I never forget a thing. Every kind of love, it seems,… — Jodi Lynn Anderson
We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than… — Winston Churchill
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations. — Eric Hoffer
Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience… — Raymond Williams
Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat disconcerting role in… — Milton H. Erickson

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