{"quotes":[{"text":"Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you'll feel is regret.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["bad","ego","egoism","egoist","egotism","egotist","enemy","envious","envy","fight","fighting","fool","fools","friends","friendships","gift","happiness","happy","hate","hater","hatred","jealous","jealousy","michael-bassey-johnson","money","negative","negative-people","pangs","people","poison","problem","prying","regret","regrets","relate","relationships","reveal","show","surprises","trouble","villian","witchcraft"],"id":13268,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"All this was new to me. Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move towards the unknown - even when we don't want to and we think we don't need to.","author":"Paulo Coelho","tags":["fate","life","surprises"],"id":22069,"author_id":"Paulo+Coelho"},{"text":"When you're in love, there's nothing that can embarrass or surprise you.","author":"Michael R. French","tags":["embarrassment","love","love","love-and-sayings","loving-someone","about-love","surprise","surprises","when-you-re-in-love"],"id":25158,"author_id":"Michael+R.+French"},{"text":"Feet away, Professor Dema stood, carrying a large gunlike weapon with both her hands and a snarl on her lips. This was not the way final exams were supposed to go.","author":"Nnedi Okorafor","tags":["demanding-teachers","exams","expectations","surprises","tests","violence"],"id":34159,"author_id":"Nnedi+Okorafor"},{"text":"Its always hard to find out that a person you once considered a great friend has completely turned their back on you. Life is full of surprises, some good and some bad. From my experience, bumping into bad ones never gets easier, but you learn to expect it, learn from it, and move on. Thats the only thing we can do... Is move on.","author":"Hilda Yacoubian","tags":["change","expectation","experience","friendship","friendship-true-and-loyal","inspirational","life","life-lessons","surprises","value"],"id":53178,"author_id":"Hilda+Yacoubian"},{"text":"Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["applause","art","artist","artistic","artists","conjurer","conjuring","illusion","illusionists","magic","magician","magicians","mentalism","mentalist","surprise","surprises","wizard","wizardry","wizards"],"id":58199,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"I don't really like surprises. Not big ones anyway. Just having a pack of Revels holds enough of a surprise for me.","author":"Karl Pilkington","tags":["humour","revels","surprises","travel"],"id":66839,"author_id":"Karl+Pilkington"},{"text":"Once you take the cat out of the bag, you can't cram it back in.","author":"Jen Calonita","tags":["cats","jen-calonita","mgg","secrets-of-my-hollywood-life","surprises","there-s-no-place-like-home"],"id":70864,"author_id":"Jen+Calonita"},{"text":"Would you like to know your future?If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise.","author":"Vera Nazarian","tags":["advance","coming","expectations","expected","fortell","fortelling","fortune","future","journey","knowing-ahead","knowledge","life","motivation","motive","motives","mystery","news","next","precognition","revelation","surprise","surprise-endings","surprises","survival","survive","tomorrow","unexpected","unknown"],"id":81213,"author_id":"Vera+Nazarian"},{"text":"Nobody is exempt from the surprises of life!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["exempt","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","nobody","surprise","surprise-endings","surprise-of-life","surprise","surprised","surprises","surprises-of-life","turkish-aphorisms","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-sayings","turkish-thinkers","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":85632,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":39,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}