Surprising Quotes
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Children do not see themselves as shocking or surprising and do not want other people to do so.
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I'd like to think I'm ambitious, and I like proving people wrong and surprising people.
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It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
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It's not so surprising that there are more women in metal bands. And they're not just fronting them. There are drummers and guitar players, bass players.
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One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old.
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As with many other things, there is a surprising amount of prejudice against quality control, but the proof of the pudding is still in the eating.
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The thing that's really surprising everybody is his composure on the mound. The way he handles himself on the field, you wouldn't think he's 19 years old.
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Coming to Paris has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.
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Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience of human communities. In English, 'country' is both a nation and a part of a 'land'; 'the country' can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long history of human settlements, this connection between the land from which directly or indirectly we all get our living and the achievements of human society has been deeply known.
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An 'unintended pregnancy' could be a wonderful surprise, not planned but welcome. Why should the government be in the business of 'preventing' a surprising but welcome pregnancy
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What people might find surprising: I taught my wife to change diapers when we had our first.
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Cut through the ridicule and search for factual information in most of the skeptical commentary and one is usually left with nothing. This is not surprising. After all, how can one rationally object to a call for scientific examination of evidence? Be skeptical of the skeptics.
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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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You find surprising things about the privite life of a country when you invide it.
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Women can instantly see through each other, and it's surprising how little they observe that's pleasant.
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The principle factor in my success has been an absolute desire to draw constantly. I never decided to be an artist. Simply, I couldn't stop myself from drawing. I drew for my own pleasure. I never wanted to know whether or not someone liked my drawings. I have never kept one of my drawings. I drew on walls, the school blackboard, odd bits of paper, the walls of barns. Today I'm still as fond of drawings as when I was a kid - and that was a long time ago - but, surprising as it may seem, I never thought about the money I would receive for my drawings. I simply drew them.
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It is surprising that people are snapping photos and stuff and then putting them on the internet. For me, it is like, "Why would you want to do that?" It would be like knowing what your Christmas presents were before Christmas morning.
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Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and inevitable, but it is impossible to foresee their consequences. These have only been found out by long study, extending over many centuries. Much of our knowledge is due to a comparatively few great mathematicians such as Newton, Euler, Gauss, or Riemann; few careers can have been more satisfying than theirs. They have contributed something to human thought even more lasting than great literature, since it is independent of language.
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Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.
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Keep pace with the times. . . . Find new and surprising ways to teach girls how to develop every gift and grace of true womanhood.
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It is not surprising that in talking about uncertainty we should lean heavily on facts, just as the court of law does when interrogating witnesses. Facts form a sort of bedrock on which we can build the shifting sands of uncertainty.
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Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.
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I don't think it's surprising we will have to look for them. I'm confident that when the Iraq Survey Group has done its work we will find what's happened to those weapons because he had them.
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Faith is the new, the mysterious, the surprising. Nobody has ever been there before.
