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Element Of Surprise Quotes

the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.
- Lemony Snicket

I love to explore new and strange things in detail.
This habit reduces element of surprises in my life.
- Toba Beta

In fight, by 'knowing what to do next',
element of surprise can be overcomed.
- Toba Beta

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
- Charles De Gaulle

Yes, Peasoup,' replied Kevin. 'This is all part of my plan. I have tricked the humans into believing that we are trapped under a whacking great pile of snow. That way when we face them again we will have the element of surprise on our side.'
'But we are trapped under a whacking great pile of snow,' said Midge.
- Doug Macleod

Each day he made attempts ... but produced nothing but quotations, thinly or well disguised, of his own work. Nothing sprang free of its own idiom, its own authority, to offer the element of surprise that would be the guarantee of originality.
- Ian Mcewan

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
- V S Naipaul

If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.
- H G Wells

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