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[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
Rex Stout
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
Carl Sandburg
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Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.
Marcus Aurelius
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If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.
Paulo Coelho
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I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.
Audrey Tautou
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It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.
Anthony Hopkins
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When you run into someone in NY it is usually a pleasant surprise. When you run into someone in LA you usually had a car accident.
Susan Sarandon
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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane Austen
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Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick" -Pippin Took
J. R. R. Tolkien
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More than a pleasant surprise, Danny Schmidt was no less than a revelation to me. And that's not a word I use lightly.
Keith Morris