Best 516 quotes in «surprise quotes» category

I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.

I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.

I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football.

I went to the movie this weekend with a gun. And surprise, surprise, I didn't kill anybody!

I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

I would like to say something just about the Mexican people. It is a population that has a wealth, such great wealth, a people that surprises.

Just like the breakthroughs, the bad stuff always takes you by surprise. (121)

Jesus Christ: A common exclamation indicating surprise, disgust, anger or bewilderment.

Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.

Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets

Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.

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.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.

Life is full of little surprises. Time travel is full of big ones.

Like other organisms, humans have a certain genetic endowment (apparently varying little in the species, not a surprise considering its recent separation from other hominids). That determines what we call their nature.

Love' is finding the familiar dear. / 'In love' is to be taken by surprise.

Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous.

My biggest surprise when I became a mom was how I had so much love inside me to give to someone.

My biggest surprise is probably the level of involvement of all the artists [in Valerian] who participated at every level.

Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself to breathe. Astonish Me is a treasure of small surprises.

Man is never out of range of surprises!

MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience.

Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible.

My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

My tribulations are so great, my life so disturbed by the plans daily invented to further the King's wicked intention, the surprises which the King gives me, with certain persons of his council, are so mortal, and my treatment is what God knows, that it is enough to shorten ten lives, much more mine.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

My favorite part of any event is a Q&A. I do get asked a lot of the same questions but every now and then someone surprises me - and I LOVE that.

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

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

My remoteness from women's affairs could be seen from my surprise when I heard that needles had holes in them.

Nobody will finish above us in the league. It wouldn't surprise me if we were to go unbeaten for the whole of the season. The challenge now is to dominate English football for a long time.

New Yorkers, we've seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years; we know who he is. So he wasn't a surprise to me.

Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.

No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise.

Normally I wouldn't spoil anything because I love surprises - I don't even shake my presents at Christmas.

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise, fear and surprise; two chief weapons, fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency! Er, among our chief weapons are: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and near fanatical devotion to the Pope! Um, I'll come in again.

Nothing human surprises me.

Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore.

Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond His control.

Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!

Nothing is secure. That is my message. Nothing can be secure, because a secure life will be worse than death. Nothing is certain. Life is full of uncertainties, full of surprises - that is its beauty! You can never come to a moment when you can say, "Now I am certain." When you say you are certain, you simply declare your death, you have committed suicide.

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

One of the surprises of being a grown-up is embracing the fact that you see your friends when you are both available. It's not like you hang out all the time.... It's just the reality.

Once a film is shot, the thing that mostly happens is that I go see all the things I would have fixed in my performance and sometimes, very rarely, I see a moment that surprise me and I go, "Oh, that's not bad. That was nice.

One interesting thing - I play bass and guitar and stuff like that. I know those instruments really well. But I don't know how to play clarinet or trombone or any of these other instruments. I don't actually know how to play ukulele even though I've played it a lot in the past. Because of the weird tuning it's not exactly like a guitar. That's one of the reasons I like that instrument - it makes for surprises. It's not so predictable as the bass or the guitar is for me.

One needs to fully accept that surprises sometimes happen and complete control over outcome is not necessary or even desirable.

One ought to have the right to have a secret and to spring it as a surprise. But if you live inside a family you have neither.

Not really a party until someone brings the surprise zombies.

[On Lisa Kudrow:] She's like the best kind of jazz there is. You don't know what note she's going to hit and it's always a surprise.