Best 516 quotes in «surprise quotes» category

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

There's an old line that goes, the truck you see 400 yards down the road is not the truck that hits you. When we see these problems coming, they usually get defused. Brexit may have been a surprise, but we recognized it as something that could possibly happen.

There should be no surprise that forgotten America, no matter their ethnicity, because we see that Mr. Trump was able to get Hispanic voters, African American voters. Oh my God, the majority of, of, of the women voters that he was able to amass, even though he was painted as the other, my party, the Democratic party, did not listen to the voices of the forgotten America.

There's no bigger surprise than to be tooling along at 200 MPH and suddenly get hit from the rear

There's really not much in life that's as violent or traumatic as an encounter with somebody who really surprises you and opens up that strange dynamic that's involved in romantic love.

The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.

The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things.

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

The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.

The students always, always surprise me.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

The surprise is on the far side." "You're sure?" "Positive." "It better not be another fairy," Seth said. "What's the matter with fairies?" "I've already seen about a billion of them and also they turned me into a walrus.

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

The world changed while I slept, and much to my surprise, no one had consulted me.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Things happen in a way that surprises. That's why I'm reluctant to predict. You cannot predict.

This may surprise you, but there were a large number of valuable buys during the Depression.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

To create a perfume you have to be the servant of the unconscious. Each idea evolves and transforms, but there should be a surprise with each note.

To conclude, the tragedy of March 25 [1969] caught me by surprise. Yahya Khan fooled even me.

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.

Variety is the spice of life. We all want surprises.

There were two unpleasant surprises [about Washington]. One was the inertia of Congress, the length of time it takes to get a complicated piece of legislation through ... and the other was the irresponsibility of the press.

This might surprise you, but I do feel like I have, because the shooting of all these films was spread out, for the most part. They just happen to be coming out at the same time.

To an even moderately sophisticated and well-read person it should come as no surprise that any religion at all has its hidden as well as its obvious beauties and is capable of profound and impressive interpretations. What is deeply objectionable about most of these interpretations is that they allow the believer to say Yes while evading any No.

To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.

To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

To no surprise, the theories and structures of naturalistic science affirm naturalistic assumptions.

To my surprise, my marijuana use has been tapering off steadily.

To my surprise, I recognized Dimitri Belikov-Rose's boyfriend-among those doing crowd control. He was easy to spot since he was almost always taller than everyone around him. Dhampirs look very human, and even I could admit that he was pretty good-looking. There was a rugged handsomeness to him, and even in a still photograph, I could see a fierceness as he watched the crowd.

Vince Russo destroyed the Periodic Table as he only recognises the element of surprise.

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

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

We couldn't have known - who could've predicted what happened in American politics in the 2016? The rise of racism again, or the peeling back of the onion and seeing racism again, was a bit of a surprise in the last couple years.

We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.

We cannot depend on change, but we can depend on surprise. However, we cannot always depend on surprise either. This keeps us on our toes.

...went to a bar for a few drinks. The bartender asked what I wanted. "Surprise me", I said. So he showed me a naked picture of my wife.

Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me.

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones.

What I like is a life that is full of surprises and [that has] no routine.

Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.

What a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are).

What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.

What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.

What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young.

What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.