#surprise

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. ↗

— Robert Baden-Powell

#act #any #be prepared #emergency #himself

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else. ↗

— Miriam Beard

#astonish #atlantic #bizarre #else #go

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#barely #been #each #finished #firmly

Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you. ↗

— Claude M. Bristol

#always #come #done #fellow #how

You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone. ↗

— Adrien Brody

#cell phone #difficult #how #phone #relinquish

The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#always #find #good #surprised #wicked

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#secrecy #speed #surprise

With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#left #passing #proves #still #surprises

Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me. ↗

— Heidi Klum

#amazing #being #chosen #cover #even

The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers. ↗

— Harvey Cushing

#capacity #educational #himself #his #less