Surprisingly Quotes
170 Surprisingly quotes by 157 unique authors
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For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.
— Michael Shermer
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I'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes.
— Danielle Steel
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You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have…
— Taylor Swift
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Fashion Week is surprisingly very short. At least the actual runway shows are.
— Tinie Tempah
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Surprisingly, I think if you're known on the Internet, you're probably an introvert.
— Felicia Day
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Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice…
— Geoff Mulgan
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Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
— Michael Cunningham
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All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above my head. I…
— Sylvia Plath
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Instead of telling the world What it is supposed to do, Why don't you immediately do it yourself? In this way, I assure you, Your…
— Sri Chinmoy
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades…
— Richard Dawkins
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Not surprisingly, the place we're most likely to experience testing is exactly where we struggle most to trust God.
— Bruce Wilkinson
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Tom gets by, Navidson succeeds. Tom just wants to be, Navidson must become. And yet despite such obvious differences, anyone who looks past Tom's wide…
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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That was close,"he said, helping himself to coffee. Yeah, you almost opened the door to Morelli." I wasn't talking about Morelli. I was talking about…
— Janet Evanovich
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He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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The Chancellor looked down at the empty table for a minute. Then he shrugged, looked up, and gave a surprisingly jaunty smile. "All in favor…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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This is a, uh, friendship ring right?†“Yeah, don’t worry. If I propose, you’ll know it. For one thing, I’ll be hyperventilating.†A sly smile—surprisingly…
— Richelle Mead
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I tore open the closet door and began feverishly sorting through the shirts piled on the floor in the vain hope that inside that pile…
— John Green
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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
— Alexander Pushkin
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She had been the quiet, rather plain girl, with a surprisingly sharp tongue if she was put out, lovely eyes and pretty hair and a…
— Betty Neels
Who Wrote These Surprisingly Quotes
157 authors contributed a total of 170 Surprisingly Quotes, led by these top contributors: