Top 14 Unsurprising People Quotes
#1. He may not have been born with guts, but he didn't have to die without them.
Katherine Paterson
#2. I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
Robert Harris
#3. Since the ousting and capture of Saddam Hussein by U.S. forces, civil rights and personal freedoms have been restored in Iraq, as well as equal rights to all, not just to Saddam's entourage of terrorists.
Jim Gerlach
#4. Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
Rachel Cusk
#5. When a woman is successful, people of both genders like her less. This truth is both shocking and unsurprising: shocking because no one would ever admit to stereotyping on the basis of gender and unsurprising because clearly we do.
Sheryl Sandberg
#7. Stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.
Laura Lippman
#8. I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she did not know.
Carson McCullers
#9. Each space has a role to play, but while to date the majority of media investment and energy has really focused on the bought on the bought space ... this balance is shifting to a much stronger emphasis on owned and generated spaces.
Jamie Leach
#11. A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.
Walter Savage Landor
#12. [A} maxim's legal character must be intrinsic: it must have what I shall call 'lawlike form.' this is why legal character, or universality, must be understood as lawlike form, that is, as a requirement of universalizability.
Christine M. Korsgaard
#13. Back when childhoods were often so protracted, it is unsurprising that so many people got into the lifelong habit of believing, even after their parents were gone, that somebody was always watching over them - God or a saint or a guardian angel or the stars or whatever. People
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#14. ...the enduring human need to be remembered.
Ben Sherwood