Surprise Quotes - Page 29

• Dreaming is a journey through wonder, surprise, and freedom.

  Anthony Lawlor

  Dream, Journey, Wonder

  Anthony Lawlor (1997). “A Home for the Soul: A Guide for Dwelling with Spirit and Imagination”, Clarkson Potter Publishers

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• In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of bachelor independence. That the responsibilities of world power have not made us happier is no surprise. To help ourselves manage them, we have replaced the illusion of isolation with a new illusion of omnipotence.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Responsibility, Omnipotence, America

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• There is no straight path from your seat today to where you are going. Don't try to draw that line. You will not just get it wrong, you'll miss big opportunities. And I mean big-like the Internet. Careers are not ladders, those days are long gone, but jungle gyms. Don't just move up and down, don't just look up, look backwards, sideways around corners. Your career and your life will have starts and stops and zigs and zags. Don't stress out about the white space-the path you can't draw- because there in lies both the surprises and the opportunities.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Inspiring, Graduation, Stress

  "Lean in, speak out". Address to graduating seniors at Harvard’s Senior Class Day ceremony on May 28, 2014 at Tercentenary Theatre, news.harvard.edu.

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• What to do? We yanked the dress up over her lovely attributes and with the addition of a scarf, the problem was solved. Sorry, guys, blame that stuffy censor. He hated surprises.

  Audrey Meadows

  Sorry, Guy, Lovely

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• But look within and watch the stuff coming up-restlessness, anxiety, impatience, pain-just watch it come up and don't get involved. Much to your surprise, it will simply go away. It rises, it passes away. As simple as that. There is another word for self-discipline. It is patience.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Pain, Simple, Self

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• Most are expecting 5 percent to 10 percent hikes, but there are rumblings of far nastier surprises.

  Hugh Hewitt

  Notable, Expecting, Percent

  "How High Will Your Health Insurance Premiums Go In 2015?". townhall.com. October 28, 2014.

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• When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own and hide it for someone else to find. I was greatly excited at the thought of the first lucky passerby who would receive a gift in this way, regardless of merit, a free gift from the universe. . . . I've been thinking about seeing. There are lots of things to see, unwrapped gifts and free surprises. The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand.

  Annie Dillard

  Growing Up, Thinking, Hands

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• Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways. When we find new eyes, the unsuspected blessing in work we have done for many years may take us completely by surprise. We can see life in many ways: with the eye, with the mind, with the intuition. But perhaps it is only those who speak the language of meaning, who have remembered how to see with the heart, that life is ever deeply known or served.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Meaningful, Eye, Heart

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• For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.

  Robert Frost

  Art, Writing, Poetry

  "The Figure a Poem Makes" by Robert Frost, 1939.

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• A thin line separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. Our lives constantly walk that line. When we slip off on one side or the other, we're taken by surprise. But who said there wouldn't be surprises? Knowing God just means that all the rules will be fair; at the end of our life drama, we'll see that. We never know how things will turn out, but if we know with certainty they will make sense regardless of how they turn out, we're on to something.

  Barbara Johnson

  Life, Hurt, Laughter

  Patsy Clairmont, Marilyn Meberg, Barbara Johnson, Luci Swindoll (1997). “Joy Breaks: 90 Devotions to Celebrate, Simplify, and Add Laughter to Your Life”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.

  Denise Crosby

  Missing You, Nice, Lasts

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• Love had forged ahead so swiftly that in no time it had displaced agriculture as the leading industry of the period. To anyone who has tried both, this wont come as much of a surprise.

  Groucho Marx

  Love, Funny, Agriculture

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• It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that I hope to inspire with this book.

  Mary Roach

  Book, Inspire, Delight

  Mary Roach (2014). “Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  Beauty, New York, Cities

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• I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise.

  John Schlesinger

  Looks, Festivals, Berlin

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• Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.

  Lionel Richie

  Thank You, Song, Careers

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• I am going in there to win this fight. I don't think people are taking me seriously. I'm gonna surprise a lot of people. This guy helped two people make history.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Fighting, Winning

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• We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises.

  Pawel Pawlikowski

  Silence, Needs, Withdrawal

  "Oscars 2015 Speeches: The Winners of the Winners" by Allan MacDonell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 22, 2015.

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• What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young.

  Hugh Hefner

  Getting Older, Age, Young

  "Hugh Hefner: What I've Learned" by Wil S. Hylton, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.

  Audrey Tautou

  Want, Pleasant Surprises

  "The Secret Life Of Audrey Tautou". Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. November 29, 2004.

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• It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Believe, Answers, Bigs

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• What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

  Hans Blix

  Military, People, Biological Warfare

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• They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

  Mary Wesley

  Disappointment, May, Enchanting

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• With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Years, Passing, Prove

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• Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

  Irwin Shaw

  Literature, Judgment, Stores

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