“ It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. ”
- Barbara Kingsolver- Copy
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“ When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them. ”
- Sir William Osler- Copy
- 924
“ No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected. ”
- Julius Caesar- Copy
- 42
“ One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place. ”
- Larry Wall- Copy
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“ It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw. ”
- Cory Doctorow- Copy
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“ The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me. ”
- Bede Griffiths- Copy
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“ It is not surprising that some pro-Taliban Pakistanis are now complaining because the U.S. failed to put Israel on its target list of terrorism. ”
- Jack Schwartz- Copy
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“ It's not terribly surprising that we're ending the year with a whimper. If you look at the market this year, only a couple of groups really performed. ”
- Robert Morris- Copy
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“ For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change. ”
- Quentin Crisp- Copy
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“ It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration. ”
- James Bovard- Copy
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“ I like a show to unfold and keep presenting itself, surprising you. ”
- Tommy Tune- Copy
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“ There's a lot of intermingling of race horses.... So it's not too surprising it's showing up in the tracks. ”
- George Allen- Copy
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“ Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them. ”
- Curt Rosten- Copy
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“ For me it's not surprising. He's competitive, he loves to be in this kind of atmosphere and he's playing extremely well. ”
- Jason Kidd- Copy
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“ He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can. ”
- Jack Nicklaus- Copy
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“ I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected. ”
- Jacqueline Bisset- Copy
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“ But the government made some non-negotiable demands that were very surprising to us. ”
- Bill Gates- Copy
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“ There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence. ”
- Ben Becht- Copy
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“ To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
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“ A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods. ”
- Robert Henri- Copy
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“ Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes. ”
- Janet Flanner- Copy
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“ True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. ”
- Jean Cocteau- Copy
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