Best 516 quotes in «surprise quotes» category

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.

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

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

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.

...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.

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

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

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.

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

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 people generally tell you is, "We'll all agree," and then once you sign, they expect to get their own way. I think it was a bit of a surprise that I was still very headstrong even after signing. I wasn't so happy to get a deal that I would agree to anything. In fact, I disagreed on most things and got my way on most things, which I think was to all of our benefit. But they wanted the record to come out, and I wanted the record to come out, so we had to work together.

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

What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being.

"What would they do to me," he asked in confidential tones, "if I refused to fly them?" "We'd probably shoot you," ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen replied. "We?" Yossarian cried in surprise. "What do you mean, we? Since when are you on their side?" "If you're going to be shot, whose side do you expect me to be on?" ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen retorted.

... when demand is being destroyed by expensive oil just as expensive oil is incentivising increased production - it should come as no surprise that at some point the markets would react.

When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act.

When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value .

When a copier sales person cold calls a purchasing manager whom he has never met is it any surprise that the purchasing manager will most likely never return that call?

When it works, anticipation is far more fulfilling than surprise, because we are reminded that a sunrise is precisely as magnificent as it is inevitable.

When I go to the cinema, I'm often frustrated because I can guess exactly what is going to happen about ten minutes into the screening. So, when I'm working on a subject, I'm always looking for the element of surprise.

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else

When people make the mistake of underestimating me, that's when they are really in for their biggest surprise.

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.

When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. "Oh, that's not necessary," he replied . "It's so seldom I have one.

When we are expecting only suffering, the least joy surprises us: Suffering itself becomes the greatest of joys when we seek it as a precious treasure.

When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.

You can't reinvent the wheel. You've got to just take the best from all the other shows and try to make it work, because there's the "live show Gods" that dictate if there are going to be any surprises, if there's a very commercial film that's a Best Picture. There are a lot of things that are out of my control, but I do my best.

Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.

With writing music, as a general rule I'm looking for something that surprises me, that doesn't fall within what's easy for me.

Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.

Young children have no sense of wonder. They bewilder well, but few things surprise them. All of it is new to young children, after all, and equally gratuitous.

You gave me back the paradise That I thought I lost for good You helped me find the reasons why It took me by surprise that you understood You knew all along What I never wanted to say Until I learned to love myself I was never ever lovin' anybody else.

You're seeing something that you've seen a thousand times and you just like it. There's nothing wrong with that but it's not a revelation. It's not a surprise. It's comfort.

You're always under the microscope, and you don't know which mission you're going to get. It's a surprise.

All of this,' the prophet said, serene, 'all of our activities, Sayid, you must understand this, all of your suffering, it's all part of a greater plan.' 'You'd be surprised at how little comfort I take from that notion.

You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise.

Afterward the Captain was to tell himself that in this one instant he knew everything. Actually, in a moment when a great but unknown shock is expected, the mind instinctively prepares itself by abandoning momentarily the faculty of surprise. In that vulnerable instant a kaleidoscope of half-guessed possibilities project themselves, and when the disaster has defined itself there is the feeling of having understood beforehand in some supernatural way.

You want it to feel like a surprise. You want to keep him guessing whether he'll make you smile entirely so that when you do, he will feel like he's been given a gift.

A general air of surprise and genuine satisfaction fell upon everyone as they saw the pianist enter.

A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.

All things remarkable are surprisingly simple; albeit difficult to find.

Arthur! You're safe!" A voice cried. "Am I?" said Arthur, rather startled. "Oh, good.

An assumption is the joke; truth the punchline.

A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn't really mind it.