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Tag Name "Surprise" (1213)

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Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?
Cathleen Schine
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I have no idea what's coming next or where it will come from I enjoy the surprise of it all.
Mandy Patinkin
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One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.
George R. R. Martin
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The number one resolution that people mention to me as something that's made them happier is - to my surprise - making the bed.
Gretchen Rubin
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The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful, wonderful: I'm surprised half the time
A. R. Ammons
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Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses yet it does not surprise the moral sentiment that was older and awaited expectant these larger insights.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This is a big deal. It's a fairly natural partnership it shouldn't surprise people, ... We're working on bringing this network-is-the-computer, Net services environment.
Scott McNealy
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When we love somebody, we show it by doing something nice. So learn to serve: find a need and fulfill a need. Surprise people with a good deed they hadn't planned on. We have that opportunity at home, at school, and at church.
Russell M. Nelson
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What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.
Douglas Coupland
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Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous.
Gene Wilder
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Someday, as an exercise, you might ask a writer to give himself the questions he wants to answer. If you really want a writer's opinions, you have to ask for them. What you read might surprise you.
John Fante
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Sara: You are so brave, I tell her, and then I smile. When I grow up, I want to be just like you. To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. No Mommy, she says. You'd be sick.
Jodi Picoult
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It should come as no surprise that Russia continues its effort to manipulate Western democracies in a way to sow discord and disagreements between our countries in NATO and within the United States or any other Western European country. And it's something the United States obviously must be on guard against.
Tom Cotton
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It surprises me how much children like me, you know? If they look at me as an example, I have a big responsibility.
Mario Balotelli
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and yet, you never knew wwhat you were capable of until you arrived at that given moment. Life was just a whole string of spots where you continued to surprise yourself.
Jodi Picoult
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Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop.
Mos Def
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Survival is as much a matter of grace as fight. The expression, 'grace under pressure' implies the attainment of equanimity and equilibrium. The fundamental durability of the human body surprises us because the pain can be so intense - yet pain is often transient and hides the tremendous effforts the body is engaged in to heal itself.
Gretel Ehrlich
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Do not expect pictures to say the expected some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.
Robert Henri
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Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
Mae West
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Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.
Gregory David Roberts
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A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
Chevy Chase
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When a copier sales person cold calls a purchasing manager whom he has never met is it any surprise that the purchasing manager will most likely never return that call?
Josh Turner
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I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.
Sadie Jones
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The inspiration for my novels comes from the depths of a creative well, based on asking myself questions over and over. I try to write something different each time I sit down to write I try to surprise the readers.
Nicholas Sparks
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