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«We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.»
«The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.»
Author: Freya Stark | Keywords: pretend, surprised
«The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.»
«When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.»
Author: Gracie Allen (Actress, Comedian) | About: Birth, Funny | Keywords: surprised, year
«Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change»
Author: Thomas Hardy (Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: surprised
«The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them»
Author: William Clayton | About: People | Keywords: dumber, dumbest, kill, surprised
«So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little na?ve, I feel!»
«They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods»
Author: Edith Wharton (Novelist) | About: Happiness | Keywords: butterfly, surprised, woods
«Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled; Yea even that which mischief meant most harm - Shall in the happy trial prove most glory»
«Well, I learned a lot... I went down to Latin America to find out from them and (learn) their views. You'd be surprised. They're all individual countries»

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