
Top 30 People Can Surprise You Quotes
#2. People can live with only so much honesty. And sometimes, people can surprise you.
Libba Bray
#3. People can surprise you in so many ways, both with cruelty and with kindness.
Alice Hoffman
#4. ...people can surprise you if you let them in.
Kira Saito
#5. Just in my experience, all people do is take. None of them give a damn about helping someone else. (Aiden)
And sometimes people can surprise you. (Leta)
Yeah. You're right. I'm constantly amazed by the unprovoked treachery they're capable of. (Aiden)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#6. Sometimes people can surprise you. Sometimes they have a great capacity to hear the truth.
Joe Seneca
#7. So you see, people are rarely the straightforward things we think they are. Even the villains in a story can turn round and surprise us.
Rachel Joyce
#8. Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You can write dialogue!
Matthew Specktor
#9. Everybody knows a guillotine choke, and most know how to get to one. But if you can create a different way to get to that choke, then you're going to surprise people. However, that will only happen one time, because once it gets used that one time, everyone will see that and start to train for it.
Bas Rutten
#10. I asked a lot of friends and people I'd meet, "Can you tell me a story of a micro-aggression that happened to you in a place you didn't expect it to happen?" I wasn't interested in scandal, or outrageous moments. I was interested in the surprise of the intimate, or the surprise of the ordinary.
Claudia Rankine
#11. From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint you most bitterly, but up close it can hit you as a bewildering surprise.
Tom Perrotta
#12. So many times, people want you to stay the way you were, be as you were before because they want to encapsulate you in a time so they can remember their youth. But you're here to continually push forward and move forward. That's where I'm at - I just want to always surprise people.
Maxwell
#13. Television is fantastic because you get to follow a group of characters over time, and their stories can enrich and surprise you. And you get to work with a group of people over time as well, which can be very satisfying with the right group.
Liz Tuccillo
#14. We mustn't be traditional in the way we communicate with people - especially with the Establishment. We should surprise people by saying new things in an entirely new way. Communication of that sort can have a fantastic power so long as you don't do only what they expect you to do.
Yoko Ono
#15. Safety is the most unsafe spiritual path you can take. Safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is time to die. They have allowed themselves to live so little.
Stephen Levine
#16. The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you're grinding and shaping.
Bill Nye
#17. As an actor, you always look for things that will stretch you and that are different than you are, so that you can surprise yourself, and you want to surround yourself with the highest caliber of people that will make you look good.
Emmy Rossum
#18. Sometimes people can surprise the hell outta you. Sometimes they can tear your heart out and turn it to putty, can't they?
Marisha Pessl
#19. Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.
Fernando Torres
#20. The thing about a cartoon is, you can do whatever you want. The tightrope that we are walking on 'The Simpsons' and 'Futurama' is 'How do you continue to surprise the audience, but make them good surprises?' Not every surprise is good, but you want to continue jolting people.
Matt Groening
#21. I realized that once people are broken in certain ways they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one.
Douglas Coupland
#22. But one thing I've learnt about people, is that they can always surprise you.
Nathan Filer
#23. 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
#24. My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#25. 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
#26. Some people can't see love beyond the shroud of pain and suffering, but that's no big surprise. In dire circumstances flowers seem stupid and boxes of chocolates a waste and you can't have 'true' love without those!
Bianca Sommerland
#27. I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.
Joe Abercrombie
#28. I always surprise myself with my voice. A lot of people don't get it, and they're like, 'You can't sing. Stop. What are you doing?' And it's funny to hear a lot people say I sing in falsetto because it's not falsetto - that's my voice.
Shamir
#29. Some people are so talented and yet they don't even know it. There are so many different aspects to sport and how you can get involved. You might surprise yourself with what you can achieve, so give it go and see what you can do!
Jazmin Carlin
#30. Long as people can still surprise you, it means you're not dead.
Jennifer Weiner
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