Surprising Quotes

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Criss Jami
“Emotion is always multiplied in the art of a person who doesn't really show much emotion. It once expanded deep within his hidden soul, and following the downplay his audience is blown away.”
Criss Jami, Killosophy

أنيس منصور
“لا توجد قواعد للحب أو حتى للزواج : فهو مثل البرق و الرعد و مثل ضربة الشمس و مثل إنهيار العمارات و تفجر البترول : مفاجأة !!”
أنيس منصور, شبابنا الحيران

“He lifted his shirt, and on his back was the White Rabbit, wearing his waistcoat and looking at his watch. It was just like the illustration from the book. Only standing next to him, back-to-back, was another White Rabbit wearing a leather motercycle jacket and boots and smoking a cigar.”
Michael Thomas Ford

Brittany Burgunder
“It's surprising how much free time and productivity you gain when you lose the busyness in your mind.”
Brittany Burgunder

Holly Black
“I may be rotten, but my one virtue is that I'm not a killer. I wanted to frighten you, but I never wanted you dead. I never wanted anyone dead.”
Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

Jessica Valenti
“If you want what’s best for your kids, one surefire way to provide them with a healthy, happy home is to make sure they have lesbian parents. In the longest-running study of lesbian families to date,2 zero percent of children reported physical or sexual abuse—not a one. In the general population, 26 percent of children report physical abuse and 8.3 percent report sexual abuse.”
Jessica Valenti, Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness

Sarah J. Maas
“Elain stepped out of a shadow behind him, and rammed Truth-Teller to the hilt through the back of the king's neck as she snarled in his ear, 'Don't you touch my sister.”
Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

Mehmet Murat ildan
“Sometimes the world sits at a corner and waits for you to fail! Surprise the world!”
Mehmet Murat ildan

“Don't expect anything from anyone in your life ! If you will get something then except as a surprise gift.”
Pranab Jyoti Borah

Christina Lauren
“She was such a surprising mix of gentle and brash, of focused and flighty. It was almost as if I could see the little girl in her battling with the responsible woman, figuring out which would lead the way.”
Christina Lauren, Beautiful

Steven Magee
“It was surprising to find that the ‘Greatest Nation On Earth’ has one of the worst social security systems in the world.”
Steven Magee

Israelmore Ayivor
“Stop giving complaints to people about what you can't do. Start giving compliments to God for what you can do. It'll amaze you; you'll see yourself doing amazingly!”
Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

Steven Magee
“It is surprising that the greatest nation on Earth blatantly shafts its poor, sick and elderly, because it is not a godly thing to do.”
Steven Magee

Anthony Liccione
“Pain comes strangely, but is never a stranger.”
Anthony Liccione

Monica  Murphy
“You are a complete ⏤”
Monica Murphy, A Million Kisses in Your Lifetime

Christina Engela
“This was his first trip on the Ossifar Distana, his first real splash in life. Look what it got him. Mister Smiff liked anonymity. He kept a low profile, often traveling under assumed names, claiming to be anything from a banker to a (very) successful life insurance salesman. He’d never broken the law, at least not irreparably. He was quite generous, well liked, sponsoring many charities anonymously – which is why it was so surprising to find him floating face down in the private spa in his apartment, murdered. He had been murdered, unless it was a freak shaving accident. Those old razors weren’t called cut-throats for nothing. Yikes.”
Christina Engela, Dead Man's Hammer

Warren Ellis
“ON PLAYING back the 911 recording, it’d seem that Mrs. Stegman was more concerned that the man outside her apartment door was naked than that he had a big shotgun.”
Warren Ellis, Gun Machine

Elizabeth Wein
“Inspector Milne's suspicious prying appeared to have awakened her inner Bolshevik, and so I discovered my own lady mother is not above quietly circumventing the law.”
Elizabeth Wein, The Pearl Thief

Steven Magee
“Based on what I saw in my disability hearing, my lawyer won my case. It was very surprising to receive the disability denial letter several months later.”
Steven Magee

Steven Magee
“I saw two different endocrinologists that declared I have normal hormone levels. As such, it was surprising when self treatment with hormones cleared up some of my health issues.”
Steven Magee

Steven Magee
“It is not surprising to see a corrupt government running a fraudulent disability and workers compensation system.”
Steven Magee

Arnold Schwarzenegger
“My vision of where I wanted to
go in life was not normal. The whole idea of a conventional existence
was like Kryptonite to me.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“My job is my job, my life is my career”

Read how applies to taxi drivers ( then you may think how it applies to YOU- hm, and to me)”
Ruth H Finnegan, The Hidden Lives of Taxi Drivers: A question of knowledge

Steven Magee
“All the research I had read on sleeping in moonlight said I would turn into a lunatic, so it was surprising when it resulted in feeling healthier!”
Steven Magee

Sarah J. Maas
“And with barely three steps to the edge of that cliff... A warm wind, kissed with lilac and new grass, blasted up from beneath me. A wind of- spring. Lifting me, filling my wings.

My feet rose. And rose. And rose.”
Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“- Have you read a story of Solomon and Malik, Eve?
- Surprise me, of course I did.
- Did you believe in? Truly?
- No, but I'm not sure why are you asking now?
- Had he visit you? Have you ever heard from him?
- Never, I ' robbed his bank', I never heard back.
- He can't say a single word. He has been sealed.”
Eve Janson, The Jinn Within - Run of Blood

Steven Magee
“The Ukraine war is surprising. Russians killing past Russians in Ukraine. It just seems so bizarre! It is basically a territorial civil war that has been turned into an international proxy war.”
Steven Magee

“The surprising thing was that they didn’t care what I thought about them; they cared about me. Even though I’d inwardly made fun of them for their Bible studies, sharing their life stories, and praying, I couldn’t stop thinking about how joyful they were. How utterly different they were from any other people I’d ever met.”
Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“Aviators say,
To Fly is Heavenly, but to Hover is Devine”
Robert Brantner

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