Best 516 quotes in «surprise quotes» category

And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing.

"And you're worried, not because you're headed to meet a houseful of vampires, but because you think those vampires won't approve of you, correct?” “That's right,” I answered immediately, hiding my surprise at his casual use of the word. He shook his head. “You're incredible.

A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!” he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face." - Rhett Butler

Angels emerge from the presence of God and worship of God, are sent on mission for our redemption, so it doesn't surprise me to read in the Bible of angels leading us into the presence of God in worship.

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

A party like this isn't about the surprise factor. It's about someone going to so much trouble that it just... overwhelms you.

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet.

As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Being a father is a surprise for me every day.

A woman's mind is as complex as the contents of her handbag; even when you get to the bottom of it, there is ALWAYS something at the bottom to surprise you!

Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.

Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.

But what if you're wrong? What if there's more? What if there's hope you never dreamed of hoping for? What if you jump? And just close your eyes? What if the arms that catch you, catch you by surprise? What if He's more than enough? What if it's love?

Bird Poop in the mouth is always a surprise.

Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.

By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work with the same surprise... both strike us as if they were simultaneously remembrances and revelations.

Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

By doing what our assailant least expects us to do, we may throw him completely off. ... what he usually least suspects is instant, violent counterattack, so the principle of aggressiveness is closely tied to threat of surprise.

Change is a constant. Anything you get attached to will one day be gone. Love the things you love as best as you can love them in the time you have in their presence. And that change, though I'm often fearful of it, has presented me with some of the greatest surprises I've ever received. I'm learning to become friends with it.

Congress is supposed to fund the IRS, and it has been steadily reducing the number of auditors and tax collectors the IRS has at the very time that the tax system has become vastly more complicated. And of course America continues to grow, so there's an increasing number of tax returns coming in. The IRS responds by doing exactly what Congress expects of them. That shouldn't surprise anyone. All bureaucracies do what they are told.

Creativity is a continual surprise.

Doing the right thing is fun. If nothing else, it surprises people.

Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.

During a race where everyone holds their own truth, the finish line is a surprise.

Dreaming is a journey through wonder, surprise, and freedom.

Each work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning.

Each painting is fresh and new, a surprise even to myself.

Entrepreneurship is the launching of surprises.

Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species.

Everybody always asks me what the big surprises were that I discovered about Woody and I never have a good stock answer for that, I never know quite what to tell them other than generally that he's much less neurotic and quirky than I would have expected.

Everybody likes a few surprises; it's a perfectly natural human craving.

Everyday Leo Messi surprises us with something different.

Every now and then, a presidential candidate surprises us with a truly human and honest moment.

Every time someone come out with an album don't change the whole style up but don't do what they are expecting. Surprise them.

Evil did not catch God by surprise. He had a rescue plan, and He's still in the process of working out His plan.

Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.

Even though I teach with 35mm, my method takes people by surprise, because it isn't fast, and it isn't about hardware or software, or even great results. It's about great process.

Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind.

Faith in God - life can never take you by surprise again.

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.

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

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.

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

God's unique capacity is too surprising to surprise.

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.