Best 516 quotes in «surprise quotes» category

Otherwise, everything got better and better, just one surprise after another. And that's why I wrote the book about a matter of being in the right place at the right time, and just luck.

Our interaction with our friends, for instance, is in large part an interaction with representations in our own head of the people before us. That's why a friend can surprise or disappoint us.

Over past period, we have handled relations with China very carefully. We do not take provocative measures, we make sure that there are no surprises, and we hope that through channels of communication, we can gradually build up trust.

Passion surprises. One doesn't search it. It can happen to you tomorrow.

People don't really change. Not fundamentally. When they surprise us, it is because we failed to recognize their potentialities.

Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.

Rain never understands why people hide under their umbrellas! Let us make a surprise to the rain by closing our umbrellas!

Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly.

Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.

Say what you will, but you’re never prepared for the surprise attack.

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you do under pressure.

Sometimes you lose - perhaps because you play against the very best, or because surprises happen - but if there is organizational confidence, you bounce back from losses and convert them to successes.

Some of you expressed surprise that I showed up-so many emails to read!

Sometimes I surprise my own damn self.

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.

Surprise is the enemy of prudence.

Surprise comes from defying expectations.

Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.

Surprise is the warrior's greatest weapon

Surprise makes a joke funny. I love it when someone tells me something I couldn't possibly have expected; you've been led along one path and - bang! - the joke comes out of nowhere.

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

Surprise is inherent in the structure of the world.

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

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

Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.

Surprise, unpredictability: these are the main materials of creativity.

Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.

Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?

Surprise! The returns reported by mutual funds aren't actually earned by mutual fund investors.

That's the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people.

That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.

Texture and pattern should function as a surprise.

That's the thing with suicide pacts. Sometimes they only really work if they catch you by surprise.

That's the hardest thing about doing sequels - you've lost the element of surprise.

The best advice I've gotten in terms of that was someone who said, "People will surprise you if you let them.

That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.

That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!

The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.

The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.

The biggest winners are surprises to me, and takeovers are even more surprising. It takes years, not months, to produce big results.

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.

The demon bared its greenish fangs. "This is my true form. An ugly surprise for you, I suppose." "I daresay it's an improvement," said Will. "You weren't much to look at before, and at least the horns are dramatic.

The distribution of troops devoted to the defence of a place includes a garrison, an occupying force, numerically as weak as possible; a reserve as strong as possible, designed for counterattacking and for providing itself, at the moment it goes into action, with a security service which will guard it from any possible surprise.

The exciting thing about seeing a new show is that you are taken on a journey of surprises, if you know what's coming it takes away the fun.

The element of surprise wasn't allowed near the Periodic Table.

The essence of humour is surprise; that is why you laugh when you see a joke in Punch.

The good traveler has the gift of surprise.

The fun thing about TV is you get the opportunity to discover things, and somebody who starts off in a smaller part can really emerge and surprise you.

The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one.