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I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised. — Kim Kardashian

He finds low-level jealousy to be enlivening, pleasantly astringent. — Maggie Shipstead

Hope was always creating pleasantly ideological, and therefore impossible things. — Sean DeLauder

I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be unseen by all. — Knut Hamsun

Jimmy Murray, you are an ass,' said Aunt Ruth, angrily.
'Well, we're cousins,' agreed Cousin Jimmy pleasantly. — L.M. Montgomery

I keep sniffing my skin, pleasantly surprised by how nice it is to smell like a flower. I've never smelled like anything before. — Tahereh Mafi

I guess it's easier to think badly and then be pleasantly surprised. — Ellie Kemper

He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan. — Dashiell Hammett

One of us could always get pancreatic cancer," you said pleasantly. — Lionel Shriver

Dream pleasantly.
Any dream is possibility. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less. — W. Somerset Maugham

I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does. — Tom Petty

A beautiful tale is pleasantly interesting, but a tale re-told is not only sweeter but lacks the bitter truth. — Uzoma Nnadi

I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed. — Julia Glass

[He] stared at Rowl with flat eyes.
Rowl yawned his unconcern. "If you wish to keep those eyes," he said pleasantly, "move them elsewhere. — Jim Butcher

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. — Quentin Crisp

The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly. — Kahlil Gibran

None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live by faith. — Matthew Henry

We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously. — Epicurus

We are talking about poor Dartmoor, Lord Henry, cried the duchess, nodding pleasantly — Oscar Wilde

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you. — Kin Hubbard

For as it turns out, one can revisit the past quite pleasantly, as long as one does so expecting nearly every aspect of it to have changed. — Amor Towles

It's hard to be strict with a man who loses money so pleasantly. — Margaret Mitchell

At the dockside I was pleasantly surprised to find the North wasn't all hairy men in animal skins. There was also hairy women in animal skins. — Mark Lawrence

Dream pleasantly;the dreams we held onto, became a reality. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Pleasantly, between the pelting showers, the sunshine gushes down. — William C. Bryant

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones. — Wendell Willkie

Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly ... — Margaret Mead

All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills. — Thomas A Kempis

It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised. — Bill Paxton

Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank. — Lydia Davis

How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly. — Orson Scott Card

There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward. — John Steinbeck

I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened. — Vanna Bonta

These aren't the 'droids you're looking for," Kenobi told him pleasantly. "These aren't the 'droids we're looking for. — George Lucas

Well, hello, Peter," said Lupin pleasantly, as though rats frequently erupted into old school friends around him. "Long time, no see. — J.K. Rowling

Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Plan for the worst," Grue replied, staring into the distance, "If you're right, you're prepared. If you're wrong, you're pleasantly surprised. — Wildbow

I waved pleasantly after him, thinking how much I should enjoy sticking a fork into him, when the time came. — Diana Gabaldon

The sanatorium itself was charming, a group of cabins in the woods, a place for overworked urbanites to feel pleasantly melancholic. A slackertorium. — Keith Gessen

I was pleasantly surprised after the book came out. It was like, hey, the home team put down a nice score. — Rocco DiSpirito

I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised. — Benjamin Franklin

expect nothing, be pleasantly surprised. — Cindy Pon

Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly. — Robert Hass

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you
it's a wall that an active you runs up against. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I somersaulted lazily and pleasantly through the void, — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

My parents can take themselves off on a scenic tour of hell before they tell me who my friends will be, Gan said pleasantly. — Mercedes Lackey

He rides pleasantly enough whom the grace of God carries. — Thomas A Kempis

How would I feel, he thought, If I woke up and she was making love to me? Why I believe that I would be pleasantly surprised. — Christopher Moore

Isn't it better when people are pleasantly surprised rather than mildly disappointed by that which is you? — Stacey Turis

My idea of heaven still is to drive the gravel farm roads of Umbria and Tuscany, very pleasantly lost. — Frances Mayes

Take control from the moment you step in her place. She'll be pleasantly surprised and impressed. — Auliq Ice

As you meditate, you will discover, pleasantly, that you too can see beyond this life, that you can see your eternality. — Frederick Lenz

Hate is loud. Love, however, is so pleasantly felt it has no need to be heard. — Richelle E. Goodrich

What people acquire with a ticket is more than a chance to win; it is the right to dream pleasantly of winning. — Daniel Kahneman

What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing. — Gabrielle Dubois

There is always something pleasantly exciting about death - when it is reasonably far away from you. — Einar H. Kvaran

I can always remember that experience in Hawaii pleasantly on account of Elvis. — Minnie Pearl

I maintain that I never expect anything, therefore I'm always pleasantly surprised. — Lianne La Havas

All good activities which encourage people to learn how to live with one another pleasantly and to develop a sense of humor improve living. — Leonard Carmichael

To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise. — Friedrich Schiller

I don't always expect good from people. I always expect the bad and I am pleasantly surprised when they are nice. — Nick Wechsler

It's nice to start journeys pleasantly, even when you know they won't end that way. — Robert M. Pirsig

To smile pleasantly is to own the moment fully.
To think pleasantly is to enjoy the moment fully. — Debasish Mridha

He sat beside me pleasantly and played his sweet music to me, and in the end he foretold things that put drunkenness on my wits. — Lady Augusta Gregory

I'm waiting with bated breath to hear what you'll say next." "Ah, sarcasm, how refreshing," he said pleasantly. — Jen Turano

You'd eat a plate, and call it pleasantly crunchy. — Shannon Hale

What was love if not a certain pleasantly deluded familiarity built up over years? — Julie Anne Long

My children just want to get at the world; it is so pleasantly surprising to witness that. — Michael Leunig

There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its Heavenly Maker. — Robert South

You do get some weirdos, but if there are any nice people out there who want to write to me pleasantly, then they'll get a pleasant reply back! — Katie Price

Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous. — Charles H. Brower

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. — Quentin Crisp

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. — George F. Will

The kind of woman who could pleasantly instruct you to fuck off, dear, and you immediately would because you'd just hate to disappoint her. — Neal Stephenson

The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall. — William Arthur Ward

It's disappointing to feel sad for no reason. Sadness can be almost pleasantly indulgent when you have a way to justify it. — Allie Brosh