Quotes with surprised

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  • Voltaire The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • George F. Will The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Josh Billings There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • C. S. Forester They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Thomas Hardy Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Karl Kraus War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Edward Dahlberg What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Annie Leibovitz What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Gracie Allen When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
    Gracie Allen
    American comedian (1895 - 1964)
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  • Augusten Burroughs When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Barney Frank While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Adrien Brody You'd be surprised how difficult it is to relinquish a cell phone.
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  • Dolly Parton You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
    Dolly Parton
    American singer and songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Thomas Fuller A man surprised is half beaten.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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