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" Quotes and Sayings About surprise

When you prepare for the worst, nothing surprises you.

The worst Prepare Nothing Surprises you
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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Result Surprise People Thing
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I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

Storm Life Surprise Understand
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I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can’t ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won’t stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you’d be surprised that people say, “Can I be of help?”.

Stand Responsibility Somebody Surprise
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I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me – I didn’t know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn’t know it then, and I know more now.

Poem Back Write Surprise
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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.

Elated Ecstatic Surprised Successful
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I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

Surprise Dream Honesty Moon
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When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.

Spirit Mind Idea Child
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Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.

Holds Surprise Hearts Friends
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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

Great Surprise Afraid Makes
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The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.

Focus Appearance Surprised Me
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Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

Assassination Enemy Future Sabotage
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I love to be scared. Not, 'Hey, I think I smell smoke...' scared, but creepy, paranoid, what's-that-out-there-in-the-dark, ghost story scared. It's no surprise that I was the girl who got invited to the slumber parties because I could be counted on to tell a tale to scare the bejesus out of you.

Because Could Counted Creepy
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When it comes to relationships, I think I'm pretty experienced - you'd be surprised.
Experienced Pretty Relationships Surprised
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The day has to come when it's not a surprise that a woman has a powerful position.
Come Day Position Powerful
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The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

About Concentrated Fact Find
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They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.

Accepted Alive Being Chance
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Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

Anymore Me NFL Nothing
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A girl invited me to come out to a Bible study, and I said, 'Why not? I don't have anything to lose.' I went, and to my surprise, I saw people that loved God, but they were not square or rigid. They were just people like me.

Anything Bible Come Girl
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Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say 'You did so much better than I thought you would.' So there's an added element of surprise in film, different than in music.

Acting Added Better Did
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We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

God Heaven Quite Sinners
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Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.

Fact Many People Quite
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Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You'd be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.

Bringing Everyone Invested Look
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You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!

Cheap Costs Look Much
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I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.

Love When People Underestimate
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If you're having a hard time recognizing your gifts, look to someone else you know who's been resourceful. You may be surprised by how your own strengths rise to the surface by watching someone else.

Been Else Gifts Hard
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What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.

Day Every Every Day Face
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What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.

About Creator God Me
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Reader Surprise Tears Writer
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It certainly should not surprise us that a young person without any real stake in a legitimate occupation or career may get into trouble more easily. Such persons readily accept the idea that they have been unjustly deprived of money, status, and opportunity.

Accept Any Been Career
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Now, honestly, every movie set that I go on, I walk onto set with the confidence that there is nothing that they can throw at me that's gonna surprise me.

Confidence Every Go Gonna
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I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.

Because Better Dream Expectations
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The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.

Acquired Approach Away Compelled
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The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

Books Me Success Surprise
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Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Better Easier More People
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It has always surprised me that in a world of relations as hard as that of the United States, cordiality constantly springs out like water from an unstanchable fountain.

Always Constantly Fountain Hard
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

Back Bread Cast Floating
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Accomplishments Again Always Come
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Why are people surprised when others change? Only a statue doesn't change.

Change Surprise Statute People
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Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.

Actual Am Any AnyGivenMoment
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

Am Doing Easy EasyThing
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You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke.
Surprise Discover Broke
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
Prayer Answer Humble Surprise
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.

Talent Capacity Surprised Life
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Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.

Artist Collaborate Every Every Time
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When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle's wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance... and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

Beauty Brilliance Girl Her
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I think stupid people are surprised that I'm Australian. It's a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded.

Australian Community Global I Think
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“We should take as a maxim never to be surprised at current difficulties, no more than at a passing breeze, because with a little patience we shall see them disappear. Time changes everything.

Maxim Surprised Current Passing
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do not be surprised by your trials, since the Son of God has chosen them for our salvation.

Surprised Trials Son God
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Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
Everybody Going Judgments Lot
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