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“There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.”
Charles Morgan
“The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy”
Karl von Clausewitz
“I can't describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. I even hoped for a while that she'd throw me over, but she didn't, because she was in love with me too. She thought I knew a lot beacause I knew different things from her....Well, there I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care. What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do? Gatsby”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I wouldn't be surprised if someday some fishermen caught a big shark and cut it open, and there inside was a whole person. Then they cut the person open, and in him is a little baby shark. And in the baby shark there isn't a person, because it would be too small. But there's a little doll or something, like a Johnny Combat little toy guy - something like that.”
Jack Handy
“Yesterday American and British troops handed out food to hundreds of Iraqis. Not surprisingly, the Iraqis handed the British food back.”
Conan O'Brien
“A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surprised that the windows didn't shatter. And after the third session, I really didn't know where this voice had come from.”
Gerard Butler
“Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, it's unplanned, it's full of surprises.”
Erma Bombeck
“I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.”
Charles de Gaulle
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