S Quotes
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“Surprises are good. I'm not of the thinking where you tell the audience everything. Sometimes I don't even want to see the trailers. You see the trailer, you've seen the movie.”
“Surprises are life's quiet inevitabilities. Prepare if you must - but choose carefully where your surprises are born. Even silence, even stillness, is a choice of preparation.”
“Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.”
Source: Romance and Reality
“Surprises can rain down upon what had seemed a normal situation.”
Source: Life Is A Cocktail
“Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.”
Source: Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“Surprises that weren't anticipated will always have the potential to change circumstances drastically without much notice.”
Source: Life Is A Circus
“Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.”
Source: Oliver Twist
“Surprising and interesting things happen to those who keep their eyes and their minds open and alert!”
“Surprising as it may seem today, classical ideas of creating a free market were to be achieved by “socialist” reforms. Their common aim was to protect populations from having to pay prices that included a non-labor rent or financial tax to pay landlords and natural resource owners, monopolists and bondholders. The vested interests railed against public regulation and taxation along these lines. They opposed public ownership or even the taxation of land, natural monopolies and banking. They wanted to collect rent and interest, not make land, banking and infrastructure monopolies public in character.”
Source: J Is for Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception
“Surprising choice proves hardest to come by. Most choices, even the disastrous ones, are predictable.”
Source: Girl Runner
“Surprising comes when you are in the library”
“Surprising people is the key to career longevity for someone like me.”
“Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”
Source: The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'
“Surprising, I know. Everyone thinks I'm older.”
Source: The Assassin and the Underworld: A Throne of Glass Novella
“Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win.”
“Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because... they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.”
“Surprisingly few tussles occurred over the falling food. ... Only Push the puffer and Hammy the parrotfish regularly stole more than their fair share. But they argued that as they were bigger than the others, they deserved more.
“Plus,” Push said, “and I don’t mean to be indelicate here, but some of you eat our ordure. Thus if we get more, you get more.”
“Let’s face it,” added Hammy, wanting to add to Push’s words, “that is the way the world works.”
Source: FISH TANK: A Fable for Our Times
“Surprisingly, grief opens into a story of hope, and life for nothing you love is ever washed away. The memories you hold, then take a new shape, as a new orb shines from the womb of tears opening into life beyond loss. While one life goes, another shows its face... as from the womb of night is born the light of dawn...”
“Surprisingly, history has no history for making new history, and as we humans are eager enough to fight, there will be no history to repeat history.”
“Surprisingly I've never really stolen anything. One time when I was really young, I was walking down the street, found a GI Joe in the mud, and took it home and I was like, "I got a GI Joe!" And then my great grandmother was like, "You stole that." I said, "What are you talking about?" and she said, "That's not yours." I'm like, "But I found it!" She's like, "But it's not yours, and therefore you stole it." So I just went and put it right back in the mud where I found it.”
“Surprisingly, it is often when wandering through the emotional carnage left by the worst of humankind that we find the best of humanity ad well.”
“Surprisingly one of the forces for secularisation was Christianity itself. As soon as it accepted the idea of a contrary opinion, the moment that European opinion decided for toleration, it decided for eventual free marketing opinion.”
“Surprisingly, part of the attack which humanity is undergoing, is the flow of a concept into people’s minds that true spirituality is something that brings with it warm, relaxed and good feelings. The beings attacking humanity want human beings to believe in the simple, easy going perusal of the Gospels, an approach beloved by most religious denominations and sects today. At the same time (it must be remembered that the enemy is sophisticated), another part of humanity is being encouraged by these evil beings to believe in a literal reading and interpretation of the Bible. This orthodox approach is just as dangerous as a completely atheistic and materialistic view of the world.”
Source: Alien Parasites: 40 Gnostic Truths to Defeat the Archon Invasion!
“Surprisingly, stress doesn’t necessarily make us likely to indulge in bad habits; when we’re anxious or tired, we fall back on our habits, whether bad or good.”
Source: Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives
“Surprisingly, the Christian faith today is perceived as disconnected from the supernatural world – a dimension that the vast majority of outsiders believe can be accessed and influenced.”
Source: unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity... and Why It Matters
“Surprisingly, we finally understand whether we love someone or not, only when there is a threat of loss or death.”
Source: Petrichor
“Surprisingly, a large number of people who fell out with their partners contacted us, saying that they would love to fly on a Virgle spaceship. But out of April Fools' jokes come real things, and I wouldn't be surprised, within the next 50 years, [if] there are one-way trips heading out into space with people on it. It would be very exciting.”
“Surprisingly, fainting sounded like a really good idea. If I fainted, I'd be unconscious, so I wouldn't have to see the impossible anymore, nor would I have to feel so dizzy and sick. Than maybe when I woke up, all of this would go away and I'd find it was all just a bad dream. The mist started to turn dark around the edges.....For the record: fainting sucks.”
“Surprisingly, Gestalt psychologists have found that when subjected to Ganz fields for long periods of time, we hallucinate. Can empty fields serve as mirrors, not for our exteriors, but for our interiors?”
“Surprisingly, I don't throw away that much. I don't move forward with a lot of things unless they're going somewhere. You also have to remember that when you're working with other artists, you have to be really careful about how you deal with that stuff.”
“Surprisingly, I think if you're known on the Internet, you're probably an introvert.”
“Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!”
“Surprisingly, it's forgiveness, not guilt, that increases accountability. Researchers have found that taking a self-compassionate point of view on a personal failure makes people more likely to take personal responsibility for the failure than when they take a self-critical point of view. They also are more willing to receive feedback and advice from others, and more likely to learn from the experience.”
“Surprisingly, maybe the place I get recognised the least is the United States. America is not so big on track and field. Some recognise me there but lots don't.”
“Surprisingly, though, you know, there are red states in which we are doing very well because the Democrats don't really even try in the red states and they don't visit there. So it's too soon to say. You know, at this point we are building a movement. We are reaching out, especially to millennials.”
“Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesnt feel familiar any more.”
“Surreal reality. Real surreality.
Imagination Opium. Reality Morphium.”
Source: Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.
“Surrealism also refuses the representation of reality: reality can only be; its existence proves its reality. Fiction thereby becomes impossible or is, by definition, false.”
Source: Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World
“Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.”
Source: On photography
“Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.”
“Surrealism could not be made up. It was the very electricity of the real.”
Source: Bark: Stories
“Surrealism does not aim to see new things, but to see things anew: to make the act of perception performative rather than merely constative.”
Source: Everyday Life: Theories and Practices from Surrealism to the Present
“Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts on the mind very much as drugs do; like drugs, it creates a certain state of need and can push man to frightful revolts.”
“Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.”
“Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.”
Source: On photography
“Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.”
Source: On photography
“Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy.”
“Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.”
“Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dreams, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principle problems of life.”
“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”