Surprise Quotes - page 32

All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise. (Julia Cameron)

The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.

Salman Rushdie

If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

Salman Rushdie

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind.

Emily Dickinson

I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.

Anne Brontë

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing.

V. S. Naipaul

There is always a nasty surprise in store for the imperial mind. It is typical of the imperial point of view that it is ignorant of, or blind to, the other. The imperial mind keeps missing the point. It fails to appreciate, for all its benevolence, why it might come under attack, why it might, for instance, be worth a nation's while to rise up against it. The imperial mind has to be shocked out of its daydreams.

James Fenton

It should come as no surprise that President Obama will raise taxes if he is reelected. But here's the shocker: he will invite the United Nations to tax Americans directly. And the proceeds would go directly to the Third World.

Dick Morris

We're going to win by a landslide. It will be the biggest surprise in recent American political history. It will rekindle the whole question on why the media played this race as a nailbiter where in fact Romney's going to win by quite a bit.

Dick Morris

In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. I call it the law of the instrument, and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled.

Abraham Kaplan

You have come a long way to talk to me, but I have a surprise for you: I have worked out most of the details already.... (Baba Amte)

The day has to come when it's not a surprise that a woman has a powerful position.

Condoleezza Rice

I am a character-driven writer, and I believe that once you define a character, they tell their story. Characters are defined not just by their personality but also by their relationships to other characters. So it's no surprise that relationships are central to my stories. And relationships are not always smooth and easy – they have edges and help me know my characters and their edges better.

Amulya Malladi

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Kahlil Gibran

I had only glanced at a book of his once in Putnam's store - that was all I knew of him, till I heard him lecture. - To my surprise, I found him quite intelligible, tho' to say truth, they told me that that night he was unusually plain.

Herman Melville

The strength of capitalism does not lie in the neoclassical idea of stability, but in its ability to unleash this creative energy. like a chaotic mathematical system, it is capable of producing surprise.

David Orrell

Someday we'll realize, perhaps much to our surprise, the keys to free a smile have been with us all the while: look for good, and spread that good around.

Dawud Wharnsby

You get used to people being a certain way; you depend on it. And when they surprise you, for better or worse, it can shake you to your core.

Sarah Dessen

[Fuad] Yassin expressed surprise; for him, the Palestinians wanted to honor Ghetto heroes because "we are still facing that kind of fascism against our people." At the ceremony itself, Yassin, accompanied by other PLO delegates, laid a wreath at the monument and asserted, "I have placed a wreath because the Jewish people were victims of Nazism and the Palestinian people are the victims of the new Nazis... the Zionists and Israel."

Joseph Massad

In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.

Krzysztof Kieślowski

Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience. (Joseph Joubert)

Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.

Joseph Joubert

To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something, whether painting or poetry, that you cared about a great deal.

Richard Russo

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

Henry Louis Gates

Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.

Miguel de Cervantes

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