Best 516 quotes in «surprise quotes» category

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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).

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 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.

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.

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

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 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 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 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 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.

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