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Tag Name "Surprises" (282)

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Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasé or focused on your crotch while jabbering about themselves, loners are curious, vigilant, full of surprises. They do not cling. Separate wherever they go, awake or asleep, they shimmer with the iridescence of hidden things seldom seen.
Anneli Rufus
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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
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Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.
Anne Lamott
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
Vernon A. Walters
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In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere — Bibles laid open, millions of surprises, as Herbert says, fine nets and stratagems. God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.
C. S. Lewis
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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
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Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable... or make it your last.
T.A. Barron
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You think you're developing and getting better and then you see something you did years ago. Looking at your early work.. sometimes it has a depth that surprises you.
Andrew Wyeth
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It always surprises me in films that killers seem so gleeful about killing people.
Andrew Dominik
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I am surprising myself [at] each show, and the delivered piano often surprises me. Sometimes the piano is so old that I don't have to prepare it, and sometimes I have a concert grand!
Volker Bertelmann
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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
Iris Murdoch
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The great man is too often all of a piece it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's rules and organizations define as wrong or dangerous.
Anais Nin
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Things happen in a way that surprises. That's why I'm reluctant to predict. You cannot predict.
Amira Hass
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
Jean Cocteau
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Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.
Ambrose Bierce
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Heather A. Slomski's stories are downright addictive. I kept promising myself to turn off the light after just one more, and then breaking that promise, beguiled by her cool, measured prose and by the surprises, tensions, and uncanny encounters simmering beneath its elegant surface.
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
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My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.
Kim Wilde
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I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.
Loretta Lynn
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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
Alan Watts
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When we dare to doubt what we are told and take a fresh look at what's going on, we are in for lots of pleasant and fascinating and useful surprises. A new and more satisfying way of life begins to open up, just by noticing what we see.
Douglas Harding
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No Time For Goodbye is a deliciously smart thriller, full of surprises and perfect pacing. I'm jealous I didn't write it.
Alafair Burke
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You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.
William Stafford
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Quotologists encounter happy surprises, bright books by faded authors, treasures hidden under dust.
Willis Regier
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