#surprise

Twelve dead?” I said. “Jesus. ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#biblical #brief #humour #i #inspirational

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. ↗

— George S. Patton

#people #results #surprise #tell #their

It's shocking the things we call love. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#love #mistakes #surprise #life

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#belief #broadcast #fill #hardly #horror

I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it - and it came as a surprise to me because American actors, if given the chance, can do style as well as anybody and speak as well as anybody. ↗

— Rod Steiger

#american actors #anybody #because #came #chance

The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

#did #everyone #first #i #lifeguard

We all need to have dreams. The question is, does the dream control you or do you control the dream? ↗

— Robin Jones Gunn

#dreams #robin-jones-gunn #surprise-endings #dreams

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#angry #arrested #because #before #everyone

Working with my husband, I thought we would be at each other. As close as we are, our styles are so different. But it didn't happen - we were surprised. ↗

— Julia Barr

#different #each #happen #husband #i

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#attention #changing #how #humor #involved