#surprise

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

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After I started getting criticism for doing 'Big Brother,' someone told me that Hugh Downs used to host 'Concentration' and Mike Wallace used to do 'The Big Surprise.' I thought, Huh, maybe that door isn't sealed shut if I want to do '60 Minutes' one day. ↗

— Julie Chen

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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#children #hear #i #people #read

It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment. ↗

— Jesse Helms

#i #know #may #nations #people

At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did. ↗

— Otto Hahn

#did #disregarding #english #first #hague

I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

#did #english #enough #ever #food

Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ↗

— John Keats

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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#been #find #got #into #just

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. ↗

— Henry Ford

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