Surprise Quotes

Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise.

I've never had a surprise birthday party. I've had every other type of surprise. I've had surprise beatings, surprise drug tests, surprise daughter I think.

The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people, to present them with something they didn't expect.

When you run into someone in NY it is usually a pleasant surprise. When you run into someone in LA you usually had a car accident.

Doing the right thing is fun. If nothing else, it surprises people.

Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise.

There's not much TV these days where you really get that element of surprise. There are so many spoilers all the time.

Give your employees a mission that matches their ambitions. When you challenge people, they surprise you.

Find the best in everybody. Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you. It might even take years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting.

A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life.

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

You know how to be a good boy?" Anna widened her eyes in surprise. "Why, Archer, I'm certain I never recognized that quality in you.

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

The success of an assailant's attack depends on surprise, and if you're sufficiently alert to prevent a surprise, your counterattack is already halfway to being successful.

A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.

Surprise is the mother of panic.

The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed

Surrender is a state of living in the flow, trusting what is, and being open to serendipity and surprises.

What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.

My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.

History is full of surprises.

Surprise me! Yogi's reply when he was asked by his wife, Carmen, where he would like to be buried

A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power.

The biggest surprise in a man's life is old age.

The Lord is always there waiting to give us his love: it is an amazing thing, one which never ceases to surprise us!

I want to serve desserts and pastries that people recognize and love to eat, but sometimes, with an unexpected twist of surprise.

Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind.

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

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

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.

The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.

Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.

The eye is made to see and not to think.... A good photograph is a surprise. How could we plan and foresee a surprise? We just have to be ready.

It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a photograph.

I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.

It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.

Surprise is key in all art.

Ever since I started painting, I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise of image connection, the simultaneity of film montage, into painting.

We like to kidnap them in a van, and take then somewhere dangerous... SURPRISE!!

An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.

The UK downgrade will come as little surprise to many. It does not appear to be occurring because the UK is cutting its deficit too far and too fast.

You never really know how or when your life is going to change, and that's for the best.

I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.

Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that’s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.

There are very few things that surprise me.

Don't let your imagination take you by surprise.

Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.