Surprisingly Quotes

170 quotes by 157 authors

We do all kinds of things to remain beautiful yet we spend surprisingly little time taking care of what matters most: the way our mind… — Matthieu Ricard
Sometimes, to ensure that a talented individual will work for you, or will stay working with you, you need to be flexible. Money is not… — Felix Dennis
The human being is a surprisingly resilient organism. We are impelled toward health not sickness. Your spirit, as surely as your body, will try to… — Kent Nerburn
Jesus modelled that we donâ€™t need to talk about everything weâ€™ve done. Itâ€™s like Heâ€™s saying, what if we were just to do awesome, incredible… — Bob Goff
There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms and an interesting… — Jo Boaler
There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen's wives; there are student groups, all different types… — Martha Smith
I readÂ Butterflyâ€™s ChildÂ in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justiceâ€”and how all these things are, in… — Josephine Humphreys
Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of emotion, content to… — Michael Dirda
Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly,… — Os Guinness
The Sicilian Defence was our attempt at quickly fulfilling our contractual obligation after I Robot, Pyramid and Eve had been delivered. The album was rejected… — Alan Parsons
We shook hands. For a moment our eyes met - which I found surprisingly destabilizing. Then we pulled back and there was a mement of… — Stefan Kieszling
Not surprisingly, work-life moaners tend to be a phenomenon of below-average performers. — Jack Welch
My most earnest of all pleas to singles is abandonment of the self, surrender to Christ of all unfulfilled longings, an unequivocal willingness to receive… — Elisabeth Elliot
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the assumption that the… — Reginald Horace Blyth
Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that! — Caitlin Stasey
I do not know what has caused MacKinnon to become, and, more surprisingly, to remain, so obsessed with pornography, and so zealous for censorship. But… — Richard Posner
Not surprisingly, the federal judiciary nearly always rules in favor of the federal government. Judicial review, contrary to the assurances of its advocates, has hardly… — Joseph Sobran
Jesus Christ is the most famous Jew of all time, but is today remembered as a Christian. Surprisingly, the Jewish community has accepted this distortion… — Shmuley Boteach
That was very much ahead of its time back in the 1880s and, not surprisingly, it was met with some resistance. [I]f you fast forward… — Andrea Jung
Most very successful people can remember that their success was discovered and built out of adversity of some kind. It's not the problems that beset… — Earl Nightingale

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