Unpleasantly Surprised Quotes

#1. Mr. Lynn gave her one of his considering looks. "People are strange," he said. "Usually they're much stranger than you think. Start from there and you'll never be unpleasantly surprised. Do you fancy doughnuts?

Diana Wynne Jones

#2. You are afraid of me?" Reed asks me, sounding unpleasantly surprised.
"Of course I'm afraid of you. You're menacing, you're overbearing, you're arrogant, and if you don't see that, then you can just add high to the list," I say, using my fingers to tick off his shortcomings.

Amy A. Bartol

#3. I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.

Terry Gilliam

#4. That's one of the ironies of our time: Right when we're on the edge of serious improvements in health care, we're also cooking the planet.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#5. Watch for the high tides of yourself and flow up with them; when the inevitable low tides come, either rest or meditate. You cannot escape rhythm. You transcend it by working with it.

Elsa Barker

#6. As someone who was born in Israel, you're put in a position of defending Israel because you know how much is at stake.

Natalie Portman

#7. Wounded, not lost.

Sally Green

#8. Your tears,
I want to dry it.
If I could make a deal with God.
Your freedom,
I would like to return it to you.
If I could make a deal with God.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#9. We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with that news story being great and grand and something that elevates society instead of diminishes it.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#10. Because our society is so polarized between homosexuals and heterosexuals, the bisexual closet has two doors.

Loraine Hutchins

#11. The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him hated or contemptible; and as often as he shall have succeeded he will have fulfilled his part, and he need not fear any danger in other reproaches.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#12. History was easy, but I don't know about the Calculus. It seemed like it was making sense, so that probably means I failed.

Stephenie Meyer

#13. The message is resonating, not just in Wisconsin, but all over America, the people are sick and tired of establishment politics, establishment economics. They want real change.

Bernie Sanders