Surprises Tumblr Quotes

1. "Magic is a very beautiful mystery. Even the ages old magic effects still surprises the most modern men."
Author: Amit Kalantri

2. "India's linguistic diversity surprises many Westerners, but there are nearly thirty languages in India with at least a million native speakers. There are more native speakers of Tamil on our planet than of Italian. Likewise, more people speak Punjabi than German, Marathi than French, and Bengali than Russian. There are more Telugu speakers than Czech, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Slovak, and Swedish speakers combined."
Author: Bob Harris

3. "I know that there are some people who don't like me, and that kind of surprises me more than the people who love me."
Author: Boy George

4. "Math. It's your favorite subject. Which surprises you. Last year your teacher tried to convince you that you had a real "aptitude" for math, but all you got in the end was a B minus. The truth is you weren't even trying. But then you got low Cs and Ds in all your other classes and you weren't trying there, either, so maybe you are good at math after all. You like it because either you're right or you're wrong. Not like social studies and definitely not like English, where you always have to explain your answers and support your opinions. With math it's right or it's wrong and you're done with it. But even that's changing, my teacher said now you have to explain how you solved the problem and support your answer, saying that having the right answer isn't as important as explaining how you got it and bam, just like that, you hate math."
Author: Charles Benoit

5. "But some of us have been educated by surprises out of much that we were 'absolutely sure' of..."
Author: Charles Fort

6. "Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish."
Author: Daniel Kahneman

7. "I'd like to be that chameleon. That's really ultimately what I want to hear from people eventually: 'I really love when I see him in stuff, but I never know he's gonna be here.' I want to be that actor that surprises you when you see him in a project, and you go, 'Yes! I love that guy. He's in this? Awesome.'"
Author: David Gallagher

8. "What surprises me most when surveying the great destinies of man is always seeing before me the opposite of what Darwin and his school see or want to see today: selection in favor of the stronger, in favor of those who have come off better, the progress of the species. The very opposite is quite palpably the case: the elimination of the strokes of luck, the uselessness of the better-constituted types, the inevitable domination achieved by the average, even below-average types."
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

9. "Always I find when I begin to write there is one character who obstinately will not come alive...He never does the unexpected thing, he never surprises me, he never takes charge. Every other character helps, he only hinders. And yet one cannot do without him. I can imagine a God feeling in just that way about some of us. The saints, one would suppose, in a sense create themselves. They come alive. They are capable of the surprising act or word. The stand outside the plot, unconditioned by it. But we have to be pushed around. We have the obstinancy of non-existence. We are inextricably bound to the plot, and wearily God forces us, here and there, according to his intention, characters without poetry, without free will, whose only importance is that somewhere, at some time, we help to furnish the scene in which a living character moves and speaks, perhaps the saints with the opportunities for their free will."
Author: Graham Greene

10. "My brain surprises even me sometimes."
Author: J.K. Rowling

11. "Sometimes life shifts.Sometimes life sucks.Sometimes life surprises you.Sometimes you gotta deal with it.Sometimes you are allowed to take a break.Sometimes you gotta get creative and make life shift back to get on track.Sometimes it doesn't work.Sometimes it does.But all the time, you've got to keep believing.You've got to endure.You've got to move on.You've got to be strong.You can't give up.You can't give in.You absolutely have to basically…just kick some life ass!!"
Author: Jacque Bliss All Things Bliss

12. "Investment bubbles and high animal spirits do not materialize out of thin air. They need extremely favorable economic fundamentals together with free and easy, cheap credit, and they need it for at least two or three years. Importantly, they also need serial pleasant surprises in such critical variables as global GNP growth."
Author: Jeremy Grantham

13. "The world is so big, so complicated, so replete with marvels and surprises that it takes years for most people to begin to notice that it is, also, irretrievably broken. We call this period of research "childhood."There follows a program of renewed inquiry, often involuntary, into the nature and effects of mortality, entropy, heartbreak, violence, failure, cowardice, duplicity, cruelty, and grief; the researcher learns their histories, and their bitter lessons, by heart. Along the way, he or she discovers that the world has been broken for as long as anyone can remember, and struggles to reconcile this fact with the ache of cosmic nostalgia that arises, from time to time, in the researcher's heart: an intimation of vanished glory, of lost wholeness, a memory of the world unbroken. We call the moment at which this ache first arises "adolescence." The feeling haunts people all their lives.Everyone, sooner or later, gets a thorough schooling in brokenness."
Author: Michael Chabon

14. "Note to self: Try to stop reacting to surprises like a cartoon character."Jane Jameson"
Author: Molly Harper

15. "The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly."
Author: Pat Conroy

16. "I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I don't remember nothing, don't remember a world without Noise. My pa died of sickness before I was born and then my ma died, of course, no surprises there. Ben and Cillian took me in, raised me. Ben says my ma was the last of the women but everyone says that about everyone's ma. Ben may not be lying, he believes it's true, but who knows?"
Author: Patrick Ness

17. "If you plan for the worst, all surprises are pleasant."
Author: Robert Jordan

18. "Always plan for the worst, child, that way all your surprises are pleasant ones."
Author: Robert Jordan

19. "But surprises were nothing new to her. Like opening a can of mushroom soup and finding tomato instead; be grateful and eat it anyway."
Author: Sarah Addison Allen

20. "[o]f course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised."
Author: Woodrow Wilson

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