Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 7.
“I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.”
Source: I See You Everywhere
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George Will (1941) American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author
The Leveling Wind: politics, the culture, and other news, 1990-1994 (c. 1994), Will, Viking; as cited in Quotable Quotes (1997), Editors of Reader’s Digest, Penguin : ISBN 1606525956
1990s
Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic
New Year's Address to the Nation (1991)
“I'd lost count of the disappointments.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“Is it surprising that modern English land law should resemble a chaos rather than a system?”
Edward Jenks (1861–1939) British legal scholar
Source: A Short History Of The English Law (First Edition) (1912), Chapter XV, Changers In Land Law, p. 237
“And I'd never know where you'd gonna be next
But I'd know that you'd surprise me.”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, 50 Words for Snow (2011)
Stephen Mitchell (1946–2000) American psychologist
Can Love Last? (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2002), p. 137
Maneka Gandhi (1956) Indian politician and activist
On poaching of tigers in India, as quoted in "Hunting down the hunter: A dying breed" http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/hunting-down-the-hunter-a-dying-breed-473821.html, The Independent (12 April 2006) <br class="br">2001-2010
