Surprising Quotes
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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Quote by -Albert Einstein
The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.
Quote by -Bill Gates
You're never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour.
Quote by -Bill Gates
Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.
Quote by -Bill Gates
With tech companies, whoever's the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, 'Is this the end of them?' And - there's more - more times people think that's the case than it really is the case.
Quote by -Bill Gates
One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?
Quote by -Bill Gates
"How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become -- to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being."
Quote by -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again...”
Quote by -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born."
Quote by -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.
Quote by -Rumi
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
Quote by -Buddha
If i had to do it all over again? Why not, I would do it a little bit differently.
Quote by -Freddie Mercury
“I wonder: If you think of someone you love, do you become a little more like them? I would like to think so.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?
Quote by -Maya Angelou
I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
Quote by -Paulo Coelho
"It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?"
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic."
Quote by -Charles Darwin
"People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice."
Quote by -Charles Bukowski
"It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely."
Quote by -Charles Baudelaire
"They are so rigid,' he said in a sudden angry voice. 'Why do they not see that this rigidity turns away our greatest minds?"
Quote by -Chaim Potok
"I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises."
Quote by -Catherine Deneuve
"You have a name and one thing after another happens to you, and you behave in various ways and do things, so that soon the name begins to have a meaning. Things have accumulated around your name."
Quote by -Carson McCullers
"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his greatest surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't"
Quote by -Henry Ford
"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."
Quote by -Henry Ford
"I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise."
Quote by -Jessica Savitch
"The best way to stop the problem of agents would be for the NCAA to come down hard and suspend a school for two years if it finds players with agents on campus."
Quote by -Dean Smith
"Watch, hell,' Walt said. 'This is strip poker. What kind of homo wants to sit around and watch four guys get naked?"
Quote by -David Sedaris
“As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle