Best 516 quotes in «surprise quotes» category

When the unexpected meets with the unprepared, over there we find the greatest astonishments!

When we would say 'No way,' he would say, 'My way.' Then the ones who doubted would scramble to salvage the blessing. And the one who gave it would savor the surprise.

When you're in love, there's nothing that can embarrass or surprise you.

With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him before—simultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all these years, he still knew so little about him.

Why is it always such a surprise? thinks Toby. The moon. Even though we know it's coming. Every time we see it, it makes us pause, and hush.

You are my winter suddenness—a glass of red wine spilt across a white tablecloth

You don't have to be surprised when the end comes - just read the Word of God and get the full scoop!

You may pray to God to remove the hills on your way and fill every pothole on your path; but don’t be surprised if God gives you a shovel to do so!

A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.

You’re right. The fact that the entire party of fifty guests caught you and Jill Moench kissing in the closet was a complete misunderstanding." Theo snorted, turning to Penny, "His girlfriend certainly got a surprise at her party. And it wasn’t the kind where everyone jumps out from behind the couch to yell, ‘Surprise!

You will never be surprised if you keep catching the easy fish.

About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I ain't. I'm always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that's the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too.

Abuse of power comes as no surprise

A good joke provides tension, and then, release of that tension. You build the tension by saying things that are controversial. The release is the laugh. The bigger the surprise or insight in your joke, the bigger the laugh.

Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then.

You need to wake yourself up and take a grab at life. No one is going to hand it to you.

Your name isn't Sniffles?" Ewan pretended to be surprised.

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable... or make it your last.

aken’ is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.

Alexey Brodovitch used to say, "Astonish me." We as the team at Bazaar hear that everyday because we want to surprise people.

And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing.

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

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.

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

Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible.

Always plan for the worst, child; that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones.

And as I was sort of doodling, I was thinking, surprise and fear - probably fairly similar so let's just lose surprise. And that left us with five.

Angels emerge from the presence of God and worship of God, are sent on mission for our redemption, so it doesn't surprise me to read in the Bible of angels leading us into the presence of God in worship.

A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!” he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face." - Rhett Butler

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

"And you're worried, not because you're headed to meet a houseful of vampires, but because you think those vampires won't approve of you, correct?” “That's right,” I answered immediately, hiding my surprise at his casual use of the word. He shook his head. “You're incredible.

A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet.

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

A party like this isn't about the surprise factor. It's about someone going to so much trouble that it just... overwhelms you.

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.

Being a father is a surprise for me every day.

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.

A woman's mind is as complex as the contents of her handbag; even when you get to the bottom of it, there is ALWAYS something at the bottom to surprise you!

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.

Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.

Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.

But what if you're wrong? What if there's more? What if there's hope you never dreamed of hoping for? What if you jump? And just close your eyes? What if the arms that catch you, catch you by surprise? What if He's more than enough? What if it's love?

By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work with the same surprise... both strike us as if they were simultaneously remembrances and revelations.

Congress is supposed to fund the IRS, and it has been steadily reducing the number of auditors and tax collectors the IRS has at the very time that the tax system has become vastly more complicated. And of course America continues to grow, so there's an increasing number of tax returns coming in. The IRS responds by doing exactly what Congress expects of them. That shouldn't surprise anyone. All bureaucracies do what they are told.

Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.