A Quote by Jean Webster

Everybody likes a few surprises; it's a perfectly natural human craving.

Jean Webster

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Craving Everybody Few Human Likes Natural Perfectly Perfectly Natural Surprises

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Jean Webster
American - Writer
July 24, 1876 - June 11, 1916

I just think that everybody likes good things. Everybody likes dogs, everybody likes to feel good and believe the best in people.

Rex Chapman

In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food

Lord Acton

Perhaps depression is a perfectly natural reaction to the human condition.

Dov Davidoff

Being an ordinary scientist and an ordinary Christian seems perfectly natural to me. It is also perfectly natural for the many scientists I know who are also people of deep religious faith.

William Daniel Phillips

Just about everybody in America likes Jesus, but few like him for who he truly is.

Kevin DeYoung

A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.

Oscar Wilde

The basic human reaction to pleasure is not satisfaction, but rather craving for more. Hence, no matter what we achieve, it only increases our craving, not our satisfaction.

Yuval Noah Harari

All I asked was that I be spared surprises, although, in this world of six billion souls, all acting with free will and too many with audacity, surprises are inevitable, too few of them are the kind that make you smile and that lift your heart.

Dean Koontz

Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

Elvis Costello

Everybody likes an extraordinary person or likes to think that they would be great with a superpower in an ordinary world.

Samuel L. Jackson

I think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.

Ice Cube

If an individual agrees with everybody, he lacks conviction; if he likes everybody and is everybody's friend, he is indifferent to one and all.

Nikolay Dobrolyubov

Well, everybody's human, and you're not going to do the right thing perfectly every time. But you mess up and you learn from it and you go on from there.

Lonzo Ball

Everybody hangs out with everybody, which is very strange for a cast this large and this young. We're all cool and down to earth and not caught up in this maniacal business at all... . Everybody really, really likes everybody else.