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• To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.

  Ugo Betti

  Believe, Wonderful, Knows

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• The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong.

  Richard Rohr

  Merciful

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• Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Skills, Sometimes

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• Institutional United Methodism in America has given up on cities and given up on young people, so no surprise we are declining by nearly 100,000 annually.

  Mark Tooley

  Cities, America, People

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• Elegance is the balance between PROPORTION, EMOTION & SURPRISE.

  Valentino Garavani

  Balance, Emotion, Elegance

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• When it's time to let someone go, do it right. No surprises. No humiliation.

  Jack Welch

  Humiliation

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• The road to glory is difficult with its rocks and boulders, its strain and struggle. Things aren't always as easy as we would like. Surprises and pitfalls wait for us along the road of life. We're going to sweat and sway, we're going to wonder why things are the way they are. But every road has an end; every mountain has its peak. If we can just hold on and keep climbing, knowing that God is aware of how we're straining, he will bring us up and over the mountains.

  Thelma Wells

  Faith, Struggle, Sweat

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• ...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Temptation, Satan

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• Travel is a joy, full of surprises. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster: the risks add spice, and make for great stories when you are safely back home again.

  Jane Wilson-Howarth

  Travel, Home, Joy

  Jane Wilson-Howarth (2011). “How to Shit Around the World: The Art of Staying Clean and Healthy While Traveling”, p.12, Travelers' Tales

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• A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Passion, Writing, Stories

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• I never actually expected success, but it doesn't surprise me when it comes because I know how much work I put into what I do.

  Russell Crowe

  Success, Expected, Know How

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• Life is full of surprises, isn't it?

  Charlton Heston

  Life Is, Life Is Full Of Surprises

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• The criminal does not expect his prey to fight back. May he never choose you, but, if he does, surprise him.

  Jeff Cooper

  Fighting, Criminals, Doe

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• Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.

  Bill Bruford

  Essence, Discipline, Sound

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• I try to hang on to as much mystery as possible. How can we go through our lives not wanting to have any element of surprise?’

  Charlize Theron

  Trying, Elements, Mystery

  FaceBook post by Charlize Theron from Jul 22, 2013

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• God loves to take people from broken backgrounds and surprise them with possibilities.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  People, Broken, God Love

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• I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.

  Gina Carano

  Morning, Wake Up, New Me

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• The problem with the future is that it is different, if you are unable to think differently, the future will always arrive as a surprise.

  Gary Hamel

  Thinking, Different, Problem

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• I guess even when you can see everything, some things will always be a surprise.

  Robin Benway

  Robin Benway (2010). “The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June”, p.175, Penguin

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• The true liberation of eroticism lies in accepting the fact that there are a million facets to it, a million forms of eroticism, a million objects of it, situations, atmospheres, and variations. We have, first of all, to dispense with guilt concerning its expansion, then remain open to it's surprises, varied expressions, and mingle it with dreams, fantasies, and emotion for it to attain its highest potency.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Lying, Expression

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• Often one finds surprises in a novel, but it is rare to find a novel that is a surprise. Richard Melo's 'Happy Talk' is just that. It is like a collision of William Gaddis, M*A*S*H and The Beguiled. It is a Haiti I could never have imagined and will not soon forget. These nurses are crazy and I wish I knew them.

  Percival Everett

  Crazy, Nurse, Wish

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• Jay Wexler is my kind of writer--a weird one, and a wry one, and one who isnt afraid to act silly in a sort of bait-and-switch that, to the readers surprise, moves him as much as it makes him laugh. Like all the best comedians, Wexler is clearly nursing a heart that the world broke a long time ago. Ed Tuttle is a book that cant decide what it wants to be when it grows up, but as with most cases of arrested development, theres something very serious going on behind all the antics. Plus, there are pictures.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Growing Up, Silly, Moving

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• Martin Swinger is one of those rare singer-songwriters who excels at everything: singing, songwriting, guitar-playing, and being so present with his humor, tenderness, and wild mind that his performances are also deep conversations, soul to soul and heart to heart, about the quirks, surprises, and love that brings us most alive. His songs, ranging from the little plastic parts that hold the world together, to what enlightenment comes from Buddha and Betty Boop falling in love, are whimsically and wisely original and enduring.

  Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

  Song, Falling In Love, Heart

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• Floyd Skloot’s Revertigo is a beautifully-written, moving account of one man’s off kilter life. Who would have imaged a memoir exploring months of extreme vertigo and decades of neurological turbulence would be filled with so much joy and optimism? This gentle, wise, and perceptive memoir never fails to surprise.

  Dinty W. Moore

  Wise, Moving, Men

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• There are very few things that surprise me.

  Judi Dench

  Surprise Me

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