Don't be surprised by your greatness. Be surprised that no one expected it. —Rebecca Maizel in Infinite Days More about this quote Tags: greatness surprise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “surprise” Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? —Zora Neale Hurston More about this quote Tags: pleasure surprise anger discrimination denial Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected. —Salman Rushdie More about this quote Tags: books art literature surprise delight liveliness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. —Carl von Clausewitz More about this quote Tags: surprise secrecy speed Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder. —Charles Morgan More about this quote Tags: love God surprise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email You're immature. You've been unable to adjust to the idea of war." "Yes, sir." "You have a morbid aversion to dying. You probably resent the fact that you're at war and might get your head blown off any second." "I more than resent it, sir. I'm absolutely incensed." ". . . Misery depresses you. Ignorance depresses you. Persecution depresses you. Violence depresses you. . . . You know, it wouldn't surprise me if you're a manic depressive! —Joseph Heller More about this quote Tags: war ignorance maturity death misery violence surprise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? —Zora Neale Hurston More about this quote Tags: pleasure surprise anger discrimination denial Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected. —Salman Rushdie More about this quote Tags: books art literature surprise delight liveliness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. —Carl von Clausewitz More about this quote Tags: surprise secrecy speed Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder. —Charles Morgan More about this quote Tags: love God surprise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You're immature. You've been unable to adjust to the idea of war." "Yes, sir." "You have a morbid aversion to dying. You probably resent the fact that you're at war and might get your head blown off any second." "I more than resent it, sir. I'm absolutely incensed." ". . . Misery depresses you. Ignorance depresses you. Persecution depresses you. Violence depresses you. . . . You know, it wouldn't surprise me if you're a manic depressive! —Joseph Heller More about this quote Tags: war ignorance maturity death misery violence surprise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email