Surprisingly Quotes
170 quotes by 163 authors
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Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.
— Martha Beck
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Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma.…
— Bill Bryson
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The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.
— Lou Holtz
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Trouble shots are surprisingly easy if you activate your imagination. You simply must be able to imagine exactly what flight the ball will take before…
— Walter Hagen
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When you feel depressed, it helps to actively change your environment. Go and do something different. Martin Luther conquered his depression by going outside to…
— R C Sproul
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I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive…
— David Chalmers
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This show does something very special for the gay community. There's a message hidden inside the totally gaudy package that is so fun to watch.…
— Jesse Tyler Ferguson
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Marriage, at first, may seem like it will last forever. But surprisingly, a lot of the times, it shatters easily. Like porcelain.
— Lee Joon-gi
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Earlier today, the White House released President Bush's tax return. Not surprisingly, under dependents, the president listed Iraq
— Conan O'Brien
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A rentier is an investor whose relationship to a company or enterprise is strictly limited to the ownership of financial wealth (such as stocks or…
— Doug Henwood
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I was just confused about why I was feeling overwhelmed all the time and trying to adjust to having people work for me. Surprisingly, I…
— Felicia Day
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[It] was written and sold. I knew it was a strong story because I cared about it and believed in it. I had no idea…
— Orson Scott Card
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Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.
— Aaron Copland
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Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.
— George Eliot
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Elephants, it turns out, are surprisingly stealthy. As the sunlight fades, other species declare their presence. Throngs of zebras and wildebeests thunder by in the…
— Thomas French
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If you think God has promised this world will be a five-star hotel, you will be miserable as you live through the normal struggles of…
— Kevin DeYoung
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If you’re a long-time Thor fan you know there’s kind of a tradition from time to time of somebody else picking up that hammer. Beta…
— Jason Aaron
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It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people.. catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust.
— Aviva Cantor
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I can do no more than characterise, and recommend, the Alexander treatment as an extremely sophisticated form of rehabilition, or rather of re-deployment, of the…
— Nikolaas Tinbergen
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People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications…
— Danny Hillis
Who Wrote These Surprisingly Quotes
163 authors contributed a total of 170 Surprisingly Quotes, led by these top contributors: