Best 516 quotes in «surprise quotes» category

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 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 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 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.

The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed

The idea that if you don’t like how things are going, you can just leave is so engrained in Texas, the secession movement is no 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 good traveler has the gift of surprise.

The idea of surprise is part of what makes something funny, or what gets a reaction. At least when I'm an audience member, after you hear a joke so many times it's not as funny because it loses its surprise or its twist. So I think funny has to do with surprise.

The latest thing that has caught me by surprise is Maryanne Amacher. I like sound that affects the listener physically. Traits such as complexity or simplicity don't really become a factor then. It's just the sound that I pay attention to.

The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.

The longer you work in this business [movie], the more you start to be able to see the carpentry. You can see where things are going, and it's harder to surprise you, as a reader

The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognise your own worth.

The odd thing about recurring dreams is that, no matter how many times you dream the same thing, it always takes you by surprise.

The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise.

The only surprise about the economic crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many.

There are a lot of things that American fans don't know about me yet! I would say they don't know me at all, but I guess that's great because now I have the chance to surprise them and make friends.

The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

There are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown. It is in the nature of the discovery that it can not be planned or programmed. On the contrary it consists of surprises and appears many times in the most unexpected places.

There are no rules when it comes to love. I just try to let love surprise me because you never know who you’re going to fall in love with.

There are no guarantees, but being ready sure beats being taken by surprise

There are very few things that surprise me.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 secret to humor is surprise.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.