Sudden Surprise Quotes

#1. That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price
dreadful tendencies!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the pig mask, but that the ordinary world had split open for a moment to reveal some possibility never previously considered.

Peter Straub

#3. I was eleven years old when I saw a woman for the first time, and I was seized by such sudden surprise that I burst into tears.

Mia Couto

#4. You think looting is bad in Egypt, look at Peru, India, China. I've been told in China there are over a quarter-million archaeological sites, and most have been looted. This is a global problem of massive proportions, and we don't know the scale.

Sarah Parcak

#5. So which is it? You going back for your home or for your pet? They're the same thing, Peter said, the answer sudden and sure, although a surprise to him.

Sara Pennypacker

#6. Mrs. Phillips was always glad to see her nieces; and the two eldest, from their recent absence, were particularly welcome, and she was eagerly expressing her surprise at their sudden return home, which,

Jane Austen

#7. Easier will always win out over harder.

James Cook

#8. Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise.

Samuel Johnson

#9. The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#10. There has been no great surprise, no sudden revelation. I knew pretty much what I was getting into. What I've learned is that a restaurant can be as much of an art as you want it to be, but it has to be a successful business first.

Charlie Trotter

#11. Arizona was the best place. I like the competition in baseball, and the football program has been great for the past five years. I think I'll be playing as a freshman in both sports, and I think I can play with them.

Terry Vaughn

#12. Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood.

Edith Wharton

#13. Beyond everything else, she loves this: how swiftly things can strike her - music, people, life - how quickly they can surprise her, all of a sudden, like a punch.

Nathan Hill

#14. A third place to build the Great Society is in the classrooms of America. There your children's lives will be shaped. Our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination. We are still far from that goal.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#15. For memories are magic, too. They are the wand the present waves over the past.

Anonymous

#16. Wake up ! This ain't war between good and evil anymore.
This is war between good people for their respective survival.
Whoever lose in this war, will be remembered as the evil one.

Toba Beta

#17. He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever." - Chinese proverb

Kevin E. Kruse

#18. A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Francis Bacon

#19. The sudden, painful flare of envy caught me by surprise. I was a loner, my last few years in school. I could have done with a friend like that.

Tana French

#20. May my mind be clear and my heart pure.

Joanie Schirm

#21. I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage.

Karl Pilkington

#22. HOW TO BE A GENTLEMAN HOW TO SHINE A PAIR OF SHOES 1. Sprinkle a few drops of warm water over the polish. Spit works just fine.

Anonymous

#23. Gather together those things that change for the same reason, and separate those things that change for different reasons.

Sam Newman

#24. There will always be hard times. Use adversity to fuel your fire. In high school, I wanted to play quarterback but couldn't until I was a senior. I played wide receiver instead, and this ultimately helped me because I learned more about the game.

Ben Roethlisberger

#25. Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.

Charles Darwin

#26. Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.

Baruch Spinoza

#27. I suppose what I like about Zen is that the teachers are constantly questioning your insight and challenging it, looking for sloppiness or laziness in it, and ways you can go past that.

David O. Russell