Shouldn't Be Surprised Quotes

#1. Mary Decker Slaney, the world greatest front runner, I shouldn't be surprised to see her at the front

Ron Pickering

#2. Cord put his hat on and pulled it low, hiding his eyes. 'Grown man walks around with his eyes shut tight, he shouldn't be surprised if he bumps into something he didn't see. You aren't trying to convince anybody of anything they don't want to believe.

Ellen O'Connell

#3. My mouth starts watering and a gurgle emanates from my stomach. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. I haven't eaten since ... well, since 1609.

Jessica Brody

#4. If you shared your happiness with journalists, you shouldn't be surprised if they were interested in your misfortune as well.

Peter Stamm

#5. We weren't built to fly. We can do it, but we shouldn't be surprised if it feels a little unnatural.

Picabo Street

#6. First of all, the world criticizes American foreign policy because Americans criticize American foreign policy. We shouldn't be surprised about that. Criticizing government is a God-given right - at least in democracies.

Michael Mandelbaum

#7. If you make the state responsible for everything, you shouldn't be surprised when you end up with a state that bears some resemblance to a dictatorship.

Wolfgang Schauble

#8. I'm not saying that all politicians are awful. I don't know any of them well enough to say whether they're awful or not. But almost every day, you find out something about them that's appalling. Maybe we shouldn't be surprised any longer.

Peter Capaldi

#9. What is most important to us? What do we love? What is most dear to us?2 We shouldn't be surprised that these questions get to the core of our being. They also point to where we are headed. All roads eventually lead to our relationship with God. Do we love what he loves? Is he most dear to us?

Edward T. Welch

#10. I am sure of very little, and I shouldn't be surprised if those things were wrong.

Clarence Darrow

#11. Icy glares from vampires are far icier than icy glares from people and when the vampire giving you an icy glare is originally from Iceland, you're confronted with the archetypal origin of the term, and you shouldn't be surprised if your core body temperature drops a few degrees.

Kevin Hearne

#12. Because if you're gonna make someone choose, then you shouldn't be surprised when they don't choose you.

Alyson Noel

#13. When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind.

Ward Churchill

#14. If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.

Bruce Schneier

#15. We shouldn't be surprised if this kind of stoicism is of no interest whatsoever to the news, for it has sound commercial incentives for overemphasizing our vulnerability.

Alain De Botton

#16. What the hell is it about brooding guys that's attractive to women, anyway? I've become one since Dori's call three weeks ago, and it's made me more of a chick magnet. I shouldn't be surprised - being a dick never hurt my appeal before.

Tammara Webber

#17. Since the Bible is God's Word, we shouldn't be surprised if Satan tries to convince us otherwise.

Billy Graham

#18. Do believe that if we fail to act in time, it will be the single biggest regret any of us has at the end of our lives.

Joseph J. Romm

#19. For most of my adult life, I dreaded the day I woke up and saw my mother in the mirror. It never happened. But, I had grown into my father. I shouldn't have been surprised. Everyone always said I was the son he never had.

Jane Leavy

#20. In the 1920s and 1930s, scientists from both the political left and right would not have found the idea of designer babies particularly dangerous - though, of course, they would not have used that phrase.

Richard Dawkins

#21. There's a great charm in theatre; I enjoyed doing it for twelve years and did lots of plays. At this chapter of my life, I am a cinema actor, and I would like to continue to be so, and at some point I would return to the theatre.

Boman Irani

#22. Even if Matt loved me for the rest of his life, and never so much as blinked in the direction of another woman, there'd still be pain in our past. Fear that we might let each other down again.

Aimee L. Salter

#23. That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#24. I really want to be governor when I have a partner in the White House.

Jennifer Granholm

#25. Florida for Transition

Jim Curran

#26. I've barely been able to think about anything else.'
'Other than ... ' He waited for me to finish.
'Kissing you, dummy,' I said.
'Really?'
'You shouldn't be that surprised,' I said.
He grinned. 'I'm just glad to know we're on the same page.

Donna Freitas

#27. If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener.

Walt Mossberg

#28. It shouldn't have surprised her. Didn't she know better than almost anyone what sort of filth humans were capable of? But it did, every time, a sort of weary, miserable surprise that someone out there had found a new way to create pain. She

Stacia Kane

#29. I shouldn't want you to be surprised, or to draw any particular inference from my making speeches, or not making speeches, out there. I don't recall any candidate for President that ever injured himself very much by not talking.

Calvin Coolidge

#30. They used to say of me that I'd as many lucky escapes as Harry Smith!'
'Shouldn't be at all surprised: I've seen one of 'em myself,' Brough said cryptically.

Georgette Heyer

#31. Dimitri was on a first name basis with one of the most badass guardians around. Of course, Dimitri was pretty badass himself, so I shouldn't have been surprised.

Richelle Mead

#32. I shouldn't have been surprised by the way at the way she fell in love with Ky because it's the way I wanted her to fall in love with me: completely.

Ally Condie

#33. We don't have a crime problem, a gun problem or even a violence problem. What we have is a sin problem. And since we've ordered god out of our schools, and communities, the military and public conversations, you know we really shouldn't act so surprised ... when all hell breaks loose,

Mike Huckabee

#34. I do believe that even if you're the most clever person around and you figure out the 'whodunit' and you're not surprised - that shouldn't prevent you from enjoying the story.

Marc Guggenheim

#35. Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.

Robert Benchley

#36. We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn't be so surprised that things are so entirely out of control.

Seth Lloyd

#37. I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.

Paddy Considine

#38. The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Jim Morrison