Surprise Quotes

It's called 'falling in love' for a reason: it does not have to be forced and cannot be planned. It just happens naturally, and if you're lucky, it takes you by surprise.

The Lord delights to surprise us with His goodness, if only we will unlock the door of obedience with the key of faith - which He has given - and then push it open and walk through.

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting f***ed.

Silver gray hair Neatly combed in place There were four generations Of love on her face She was so wise No surprise passed her eyes She's seen it all

This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.

I hardly ever belted; I was a soprano and a comedienne and intended on doing mostly soprano legit roles but my first equity show, to my surprise, was Blues in The Night at The Cleveland Playhouse.

Surprise is the warrior's greatest weapon

The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.

Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

The problem with the future is that it is different, if you are unable to think differently, the future will always arrive as a surprise.

Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.

Love had forged ahead so swiftly that in no time it had displaced agriculture as the leading industry of the period. To anyone who has tried both, this wont come as much of a surprise.

You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise.

A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.

Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.

You can never tell what the public will think! But when something goes well and is well-received, it's a great surprise!

Sometimes people can surprise you. Sometimes they have a great capacity to hear the truth.

After a hard day, try to think of something good about it before you go to sleep - the result may surprise you.

Someday, as an exercise, you might ask a writer to give himself the questions he wants to answer. If you really want a writer's opinions, you have to ask for them. What you read might surprise you.

I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.

With writing music, as a general rule I'm looking for something that surprises me, that doesn't fall within what's easy for me.

More than a pleasant surprise, Danny Schmidt was no less than a revelation to me. And that's not a word I use lightly.

I understand that this has taken a lot of politicians by surprise. But we believe that this is an important and right step for the steel industry.

I believe in the surprises of the Holy Spirit.

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only when it falters, for then we are caught by surprise. It ought to be the other way about.

Having watched herself in the speckled mirror ... she was already shocked beyond surprise at what the flat hand of age could do.

Humor does depend on surprise, and the things that people remember as the funniest things in the world, you look at later and you go, "What? What was that all about?"

We told them this morning and I think they (reacted) like you would expect. It was a surprise and the reality of this is very sobering for everybody. I don't take this lightly at all not at all.

My sister-in-law found a real surprise in her stockings - my brother.

All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the world while that which made me has ceased to exist

My love can't be purchased Best gifts have been well-thought-out surprises.

Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets

The day you think you know, your death has happened - because now there will be no wonder and no joy and no surprise. Now you will live a dead life.

There's not that many surprises that you get in life.

It's no surprise to me that intellectuals commit suicide, go mad or die from drink. We feel things more than other people. We know the world is rotten and that chins are ruined by spots.

On the sequel, you've lost the element of surprise. Usually, on the first one you may not go very, very deep into character; the second one you start to explore the character a bit more.

With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory.

God lead us past the setting of the sun To wizard islands, of august surprise; God make our blunders wise.

An 'unintended pregnancy' could be a wonderful surprise, not planned but welcome. Why should the government be in the business of 'preventing' a surprising but welcome pregnancy

I'm a goof. I talk too much. I tell stories. I tell cheesy Dad jokes. I'm theatrical and I'll mix things up and I'll surprise people. Those are the things that I just do because that's who I am.

Humans were always surprising me.

Nick shook his head and found to his surprise that he did have tears left after all. He wasn't surprised by a talking cat. The world was crumbling around him and anything could happen.

Love is always a surprise and you never get it right.

I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.

I never assumed I would have that commercial success, so it was a total surprise. And honestly, I never assumed that it would ever happen again.

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

Nothing surprises me. After Donald Trump, nothing matters, does it?

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.