Quotes About Being Pleasantly Surprised

#1. I actually liked Rise of the Planet of the Apes. I remember just watching it and being pleasantly surprised with that movie. I didn't think it would be as good as it was, so I love that movie.

Ashley Tisdale

#2. The silence of a place where there were once horses
is a mountain
and I have seen by lightning that ever mountain
once fell from the air
ringing
like the chime of an iron shoe ...

W.S. Merwin

#3. I can't just listen to music walking down the street unless I have a reason to. I can't just listen to music as a piece of junk in the background. It drives me insane.

Mika.

#4. If we are going to amend the constitution, shouldn't it be to keep the omos-hay from arrying-may?

Jon Stewart

#5. The main reason why Western civilization lacks Spirituality, or an awareness of our interconnectedness with one another and the universe, according to Gandhi, is that it has given priority to economic and technological development over human and community development.

Grace Lee Boggs

#6. You have 'listeners' ears' when you're just starting out, and your 'listeners' ears' tell you what will work. You lose those ears later, when you break songs down into production elements too much.

Gene Pitney

#7. There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Hippocrates

#8. You must love beyond the difference of all religions, all nations, and all races. You are originally one.

Ryuho Okawa

#9. The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

George F. Will

#10. Tis true I know what evil I shall do but passion overpowers the better council.

Epictetus

#11. Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.

Barack Obama

#12. New nursery rhymes for new times. HIckory dickery dock my daddy's nuts from shelshock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and hurned out his eyes. A dillar a dollar a ten o-clock schollar blow off his legs and then watch him holler ...

Dalton Trumbo

#13. Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

John Lindsay

#14. Trusting others is all good and well, but distrusting them is better. People are rotten so always expect the worst in them. This way, when people don't turn out as bad as you thought they'd be, you'll be pleasantly surprised. It's a lot better than being disappointed. Also,

R Shaw