Surprising Quotes
507 Surprising quotes by 449 unique authors
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Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all…
— Iain Pears
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Abundance flows into my life in surprising and miraculous ways every day.
— Cheryl Richardson
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Surprising, I know. Everyone thinks I'm older.
— Sarah J. Maas
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No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to pass on this…
— Richard Dawkins
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I get bored at the theatre a lot because I notice that there's not always a connection between the actors. They may be technically proficient,…
— Lusia Strus
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Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.
— Oswald Chambers
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There are no surprising facts, only models that are surprised by facts; and if a model is surprised by the facts, it is no credit…
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Rule 1. You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try to second guess…
— Rob Pike
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Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really…
— Alvin Langdon Coburn
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Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Â…
— Oswald Chambers
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Over and over, we are broken on the shore of life. Our stubborn egos are knocked around, and our frightened hearts are broken open—not once,…
— Elizabeth Lesser
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Putting a rheumatologist at the head of a committee that arguably was going to have more influence over brain research than any particular institution in…
— Steve Fainaru
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Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.
— Eli Siegel
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Surprising and interesting things happen to those who keep their eyes and their minds open and alert!
— John Templeton
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The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.
— John Edensor Littlewood
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Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.
— Arielle Dombasle
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I am the spirit of the morning sea, I am the awakening and the glad surprise.
— Richard Watson Gilder
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One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for…
— Melanie Klein
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Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.
— Connie Willis
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It should not be surprising if people believe easily in a God who makes no demands, but this is not the God of the Bible.…
— Billy Graham
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I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads…
— Bill Joy
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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
— Nikki Giovanni
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I like a show to unfold and keep presenting itself, surprising you.
— Tommy Tune
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I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's…
— Colin Firth
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I can honestly say that probably 95% of the things I was afraid of, it turned out I had no reason to be. So drop…
— Neale Donald Walsch
Who Wrote These Surprising Quotes
449 authors contributed a total of 507 Surprising Quotes, led by these top contributors: