Best 516 quotes in «surprise quotes» category

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

Frankly, neither president [Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter] was an inspiring figure; so, maybe their lack of inspiration by the founders shouldn't surprise us.

Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation,--like everything inspired.

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.

God's unique capacity is too surprising to surprise.

Great fashion is all about surprise. It should always be about doing something that isn't by the book.

Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome.

Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We've carried that over to our brand, in the writing and the marketing that we do, and in the internal corporate culture.

Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.

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

He's out here, somewhere, and he wants you dead,' she said. 'Him as killed your family. Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us. Come home, Bod.

Hopefully, underlying all my jokes is an element of surprise.

He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient; he is simply not very interesting.

However desperate the situation and circumstances, don't despair. When there is everything to fear, be unafraid. When surrounded by dangers, fear none of them. When without resources, depend on resourcefulness. When surprised, take the enemy by surprise.

How odd, to suddenly glimpse a facet of me I didn't know existed. I guess it really isn't all that unusual to surprise oneself with an ugly bit of ego.

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

Human can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens

Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises.

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

Humor is based on surprise, and surprise is a milder way of saying shock. It's surprise that makes the joke.

I became known for surprising audiences. Except now, if I surprise them every time, they expect that.

I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.

I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

I climbed down the outside of a Holiday Inn once just to surprise one of my crew by getting on his balcony and knocking on his window.

I believe in the surprises of the Holy Spirit.

I do all that I can to surprise people and make things unpredictable because that is what makes wrestling fun.

I don't have a set working style. Some lyrics come really slow, others come in 10 minutes while I'm watching basketball. They're always a surprise to me.

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

I don't like to be constrained to any one medium. I like to surprise and amuse - and indeed, torture - myself by weaving back and forth between images and words of all sorts, and trying to create work in the end that feels "of a piece." This is why I resist calling myself a "cartoonist." It doesn't seem to describe what I do.

I don't think there's ever a moment when you can actually say, "I found it." Even when you think you did, the next moment something happens and it can drift away. It's about the evolution of love and faith. It constantly surprises us.

I am surprising myself [at] each show, and the delivered piano often surprises me. Sometimes the piano is so old that I don't have to prepare it, and sometimes I have a concert grand!

I'd rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do.

If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

I don't really like surprises. Not big ones anyway. Just having a pack of Revels holds enough of a surprise for me.

I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.

I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point.

If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise; you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are.

If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

If you expect greatness, greatness shouldn't surprise you.

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

If there's one thing I can say about my garden, it can always surprise me.

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.

I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

I have no idea what's coming next or where it will come from; I enjoy the surprise of it all.

I honestly don't remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don't remember anything being shocking to me.

I keep my clocks a little fast / so time won't take me by surprise.