Surprise Quotes - Page 29

• Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.

  Gijs de Vries

  Advantage, Terrorist

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• Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.

  Joseph Joubert

  Wells, Audience, Remarks

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• Sunglasses must be kept on until an acquaintance is identified at one of the tables, but one must not appear to be looking for company. Instead, the impression should be that one is heading into the cafe to make a phone call to one's titled Italian admirer, when--quelle surprise!--one sees a friend. The sunglasses can then be removed and the hair tossed while one is persuaded to sit down.

  Peter Mayle

  Italian, Phones, Hair

  FaceBook post by Peter Mayle from Jun 23, 2012

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• Throughout her career, Ana Barbara has cultivated endless hits; each of her albums was a true musical surprise... this is why today she is honored with the title of Queen of Grupero.

  Ana Barbara

  Queens, Careers, Musical

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• To surprise the enemy is to defeat him.

  Alexander Suvorov

  Enemy, Defeat

  "As Military Adviser in China". Book by Aleksandr Cherepanov, p. 245, 1982.

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• But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Years, Law, People

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• You can't surprise a man with a dog.

  Cindy Chupack

  Dog, Men

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• When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value .

  Sun Bin

  Elements, Tactics, Increase

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• What to do? We yanked the dress up over her lovely attributes and with the addition of a scarf, the problem was solved. Sorry, guys, blame that stuffy censor. He hated surprises.

  Audrey Meadows

  Sorry, Guy, Lovely

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• We can depend on the world being a perpetual surprise in perpetual motion.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  World, Depends, Perpetual

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.22, Penguin

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• Give your employees a mission that matches their ambitions. When you challenge people, they surprise you.

  Richard Branson

  Ambition, People, Giving

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• When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Perfect, Plot, Looks

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• Libraries are magical places. There's nothing quite like strolling the hushed aisles, letting your eye rove along dimly lit shelves. Each spine, each title, seems to beckon with a promise of incredible wonders, surprises, and adventures.

  John Jakes

  Adventure, Eye, Promise

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• I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.

  Terrence McNally

  Projects, Turns, Know How

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• Penguins mate for life. Which doesn't really surprise me, because they all look exactly alike. It's not like they're gonna meet a better-looking penguin someday.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Looks, Penguins, Someday

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• Dreaming is a journey through wonder, surprise, and freedom.

  Anthony Lawlor

  Dream, Journey, Wonder

  Anthony Lawlor (1997). “A Home for the Soul: A Guide for Dwelling with Spirit and Imagination”, Clarkson Potter Publishers

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• The best surprise is no surprise.

  Kemmons Wilson

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• In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of bachelor independence. That the responsibilities of world power have not made us happier is no surprise. To help ourselves manage them, we have replaced the illusion of isolation with a new illusion of omnipotence.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Responsibility, Omnipotence, America

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• There is no straight path from your seat today to where you are going. Don't try to draw that line. You will not just get it wrong, you'll miss big opportunities. And I mean big-like the Internet. Careers are not ladders, those days are long gone, but jungle gyms. Don't just move up and down, don't just look up, look backwards, sideways around corners. Your career and your life will have starts and stops and zigs and zags. Don't stress out about the white space-the path you can't draw- because there in lies both the surprises and the opportunities.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Inspiring, Graduation, Stress

  "Lean in, speak out". Address to graduating seniors at Harvard’s Senior Class Day ceremony on May 28, 2014 at Tercentenary Theatre, news.harvard.edu.

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• But look within and watch the stuff coming up-restlessness, anxiety, impatience, pain-just watch it come up and don't get involved. Much to your surprise, it will simply go away. It rises, it passes away. As simple as that. There is another word for self-discipline. It is patience.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Pain, Simple, Self

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.

  Mary Mapes Dodge

  Waiting, Earth, Sigh

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• Most are expecting 5 percent to 10 percent hikes, but there are rumblings of far nastier surprises.

  Hugh Hewitt

  Notable, Expecting, Percent

  "How High Will Your Health Insurance Premiums Go In 2015?". townhall.com. October 28, 2014.

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• When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own and hide it for someone else to find. I was greatly excited at the thought of the first lucky passerby who would receive a gift in this way, regardless of merit, a free gift from the universe. . . . I've been thinking about seeing. There are lots of things to see, unwrapped gifts and free surprises. The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand.

  Annie Dillard

  Growing Up, Thinking, Hands

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• I went to the movie this weekend with a gun. And surprise, surprise, I didn't kill anybody!

  Glenn Beck

  Weekend, Gun

  "Sen. Thune's Measure to Expand Gun Rights Meets Defeat". www.foxnews.com. July 22, 2009.

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• That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Perpetual

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.6, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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