Surprising Quotes

507 Surprising quotes by 449 unique authors

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go… — Bertolt Brecht
The enemy of creativity... is fear. We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear… — Seth Godin
Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself — William Deresiewicz
Cherry Money Baby is fabulous in every sense of the word! It’s earthy and smart and moving, laugh-out-loud funny, surprising, inventive, suspenseful, and — Oh,… — Tim Wynne-Jones
Very honest, I hope. God, I don't know. I hope I'm fun, I hope I am a good time. Spontaneous, surprising, affectionate? I hope, kind.… — Tom Hiddleston
I can speak of actors that I love. I love Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, her tenacity. I love Charlize Theron. She's so surprising and so… — Lupita Nyong'o
The surprising thing is that I was not funny in high school. I was always jealous of the funny kids because they always got the… — Sean William Scott
It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames… — Natan Sharansky
I don't think it's surprising we will have to look for them. I'm confident that when the Iraq Survey Group has done its work we… — Tony Blair
Some conservatives are surprised to find people on the Left supporting the war in Afghanistan. It's not surprising at all...It is hard for the government… — Sheldon Richman
Every computer divides itself into its hardware and its software, the machine host to its algorithm, the human being to his mind. It is hardly… — David Berlinski
It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm tempted to say that it… — Edward Witten
The world has done that already - possessed the Congo and pillaged her and dominated her and robbed her of agency and occupation. Love is… — Eve Ensler
The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up. — Andrew Sullivan
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. — Edward Charles Titchmarsh
It’s always surprising to me how many young women think they have to be perfect. I rarely meet a young man who doesn’t think he… — Hillary Clinton
Religious faith in the case of the Hindus has never been allowed to run counter to scientific laws, moreover the former is never made a… — Romain Rolland
Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject in the early… — Raymond Louis Wilder
Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as we… — Hermann Weyl
Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground,… — Plutarch
It's my mission to share this with the world and to let them know that there is life on the other side of those dark… — Demi Lovato
As with many other things, there is a surprising amount of prejudice against quality control, but the proof of the pudding is still in the… — Kaoru Ishikawa
I think the most surprising thing about the Olympics would be the amount of interaction and partying that goes on behind the scenes. They have… — Misty May-Treanor
Success and failure are equally surprising. — Daryl Hall

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