Top 15 Surpriz'd Quotes
#1. It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore.
Daniel Defoe
#2. As ever, he is surpriz'd by the fierceness of their bodies, their inability to hold back, the purity of the not-yet-dishonest, - 'twould take a harder Case than Mason not to struggle with Tears of Sentiment.
Thomas Pynchon
#3. Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger ... Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.
Mahatma Gandhi
#5. I'm not prepared for a zombie apocalypse. I need more bottled water, a shotgun, and stronger abs. I have plenty of canner food.
Jenna Fischer
#6. A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.
V.S. Pritchett
#7. The key for me is movement. When the ball comes into the box, or when the wide players get it, that's where I have to be clever and make my runs. That's where I come alive.
Jermain Defoe
#8. Cuddled up by a dragon. No, thank you. Let me off this train. "If you keep wiggling, things might get uncomfortable," he said into my ear, his voice like a caress.
Ilona Andrews
#9. Ronald Reagan would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on - that's how much he revered the presidency.
Kenneth Langone
#10. No where in 'humpty dumpty' did it say he was an egg. Maybe your inability to think outside of what others have taught you is what's keeping you from putting him together again.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#12. ...it seemed they spent their entire lives locked in solitary conversations with lumps of plastic.
-Emilio Neri, Mob Thug
DAVID NEWSON
#13. Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.
Margaret Ann Courtney
#14. We can choose to move with God, further into justice and wholeness, or we can choose to prop up the world's dead systems, baptizing injustice and power in sacred language.
Sarah Bessey