Pleasent Surprises Quotes & Sayings

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again. — Dorothy Day

Why don't you light that candle ? — Alan Shepard

Kayli had slipped into their group and fell in so naturally, it was like himself all over again. No, Kevin was wrong. Kayli belonged with them. — C.L.Stone

Are you mad at me too?" My voice sounded dead.
"Mad at you?" He seemed surprised by the question. "No," he finally said. "I'm not mad at you."
But he was still standing there, looking at me in a way I couldn't describe but didn't like. "Then what?"
"I'm scared of you," he said, and left the room. — Michelle Hodkin

My sister is coming back in a few weeks. And I have a fake boyfriend I just cheated on. — Jenny Han

On the top of the tomb, seemingly driven through the solid marble - for the structure was composed of a few vast blocks of stone - was a great iron spike or stake. On going to the back I saw, graven in great Russian letters: 'The dead travel fast. — Bram Stoker

Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade! — Benjamin Franklin

I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act. — Hugh Jackman

The tree is but a huge boquet. — Henry Ward Beecher

I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their accident. Perhaps they are more concerned with not thinking of it. — Sigmund Freud

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age. — Freya Stark

This fundraising is consuming us. It's impossible to overstate, I think, what it's doing to members and their ability to just focus on the job that they were elected to do. The collective concentration of the institution is being undermined every day by the need to fund-raise. — John Sarbanes

Time moves so slowly. Or perhaps it doesn't move at all and it is we who pass through it. — Isabel Allende