Quotes About Surprising Events

#1. Predictions of surprising events always prove more accurate if not set down on paper beforehand.

Carl Sagan

#2. Giving is only one-half of the law of increase. Receiving is the other half. We can give and give but we may unbalance the law unless we also expect to receive.

Catherine Ponder

#3. You can pretend anything and master it.

Milton H. Erickson

#4. My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.

Sam Tsui

#5. There has never yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Theodore Roosevelt

#6. Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.

Paul Robeson

#7. I'm from Chicago. I think can handle the Valley.

Julie Buxbaum

#8. In fact, the very nature of an X-event is that it is both rare and surprising. So I would not say that any specific X-event is likely. What I would say, though, is that some X-event is not only plausible, but very likely in a time scale of a few years.

John L. Casti

#9. Why is it surprising that scientists might have long hair and wear cowboy boots? In fields like neuroscience, where the events you are recording are so minute, I suspect scientists cultivate a boring, reliable image. A scientist with a reputation for flamboyance might be suspect.

Steven Pinker

#10. I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does.

Elizabeth Bishop

#11. It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance of their effects. All the more unpredictable and surprising to us will be the course of future events.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#12. Ty didn't care what his motives were once Zane licked all the way up his cock to the sensitive head. He

Abigail Roux

#13. Governor Sanders showed true leadership and character by supporting civil rights for all during a time when many were not, His lasting positive impact on our state will be felt by many future generations of Georgians.

Nathan Deal

#14. Sssh says the ocean
Sssh says the small wave at the shore
sssh not so violent, not so proud, not so remarkable.
Sssh says the surf crowding around the outcrops, washing the shore.
Sssh, they say to people, this is our Earth, our eternity.

Rolf Jacobsen

#15. What a surprising turn of events. He'd only come out here to question the intruder he'd spotted while watching from his stone repose. Instead, he'd found a gargoyle who needed a place to stay. Not what he'd expected.

Lisa Carlisle