Surprise Quotes
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A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.
Terry Teachout
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It is hard for anyone who discovers George Washington not to write about him, perhaps because he is so hard to discover and such a surprise when you do.
Edmund Morgan
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I think things can surprise you. I mean, I loved Instagram from the minute it started, but I think it surprised a lot of people how quickly it got huge.
Kara Swisher
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The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.
Francis Bacon
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If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is – full of surprises.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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If you don't take an opponent serious, they surprise you.
Canelo Alvarez
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The CIA now assesses that four nations - Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France - have undeclared samples of the smallpox virus.
Barton Gellman
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And Myrnin seemed quite taken with that, Claire thought; she’d never seen him look at anyone with quite that much admiration. It surprised her that it made her feel a little … what was that? Jealous? Couldn’t be.
Rachel Caine
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I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alice In Chains have done that on every record. It surprises me. I don't go in there expecting that, but I do go in there hoping for it.
Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr.
Alice in Chains
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When you have these surprise breakout films that do well, that have good performances in them, it puts a lot of pressure on the Academy to recognize those projects, so it's more of a conversation about what is greenlit.
Mahershala Ali
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I'm a sucker for expertly-executed detail and surprise elements in clothing.
Tabatha Coffey
