Best 516 quotes in «surprise quotes» category

Nothing human surprises me.

Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore.

Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond His control.

Nothing is secure. That is my message. Nothing can be secure, because a secure life will be worse than death. Nothing is certain. Life is full of uncertainties, full of surprises - that is its beauty! You can never come to a moment when you can say, "Now I am certain." When you say you are certain, you simply declare your death, you have committed suicide.

Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!

Nothing surprises me. After Donald Trump, nothing matters, does it?

Not really a party until someone brings the surprise zombies.

Once a film is shot, the thing that mostly happens is that I go see all the things I would have fixed in my performance and sometimes, very rarely, I see a moment that surprise me and I go, "Oh, that's not bad. That was nice.

One interesting thing - I play bass and guitar and stuff like that. I know those instruments really well. But I don't know how to play clarinet or trombone or any of these other instruments. I don't actually know how to play ukulele even though I've played it a lot in the past. Because of the weird tuning it's not exactly like a guitar. That's one of the reasons I like that instrument - it makes for surprises. It's not so predictable as the bass or the guitar is for me.

One needs to fully accept that surprises sometimes happen and complete control over outcome is not necessary or even desirable.

One of the surprises of being a grown-up is embracing the fact that you see your friends when you are both available. It's not like you hang out all the time.... It's just the reality.

One ought to have the right to have a secret and to spring it as a surprise. But if you live inside a family you have neither.

One thing that seems to surprise the studios is finding out later my willingness to audition. Under the right circumstances, I actually enjoy it very much.

[On Lisa Kudrow:] She's like the best kind of jazz there is. You don't know what note she's going to hit and it's always a surprise.

Otherwise, everything got better and better, just one surprise after another. And that's why I wrote the book about a matter of being in the right place at the right time, and just luck.

Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope.

Only way to eliminate the element of surprise is to know yourself and now your adversary.

Our interaction with our friends, for instance, is in large part an interaction with representations in our own head of the people before us. That's why a friend can surprise or disappoint us.

Passion surprises. One doesn't search it. It can happen to you tomorrow.

Over past period, we have handled relations with China very carefully. We do not take provocative measures, we make sure that there are no surprises, and we hope that through channels of communication, we can gradually build up trust.

Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.

People don't really change. Not fundamentally. When they surprise us, it is because we failed to recognize their potentialities.

Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly.

Say what you will, but you’re never prepared for the surprise attack.

Rain never understands why people hide under their umbrellas! Let us make a surprise to the rain by closing our umbrellas!

Sometimes you lose - perhaps because you play against the very best, or because surprises happen - but if there is organizational confidence, you bounce back from losses and convert them to successes.

Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.

Some of you expressed surprise that I showed up-so many emails to read!

Sometimes I surprise my own damn self.

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you do under pressure.

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.

Surprise comes from defying expectations.

Surprise is the enemy of prudence.

Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?

Surprise is inherent in the structure of the world.

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

Surprise me! Yogi's reply when he was asked by his wife, Carmen, where he would like to be buried

Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.

Surprise! The returns reported by mutual funds aren't actually earned by mutual fund investors.

Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.

Surprise, unpredictability: these are the main materials of creativity.

Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.

Surprise is the warrior's greatest weapon

Surprise makes a joke funny. I love it when someone tells me something I couldn't possibly have expected; you've been led along one path and - bang! - the joke comes out of nowhere.

Surrender is a state of living in the flow, trusting what is, and being open to serendipity and surprises.

That's the thing with suicide pacts. Sometimes they only really work if they catch you by surprise.

Texture and pattern should function as a surprise.

That's the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people.

That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.

That's the hardest thing about doing sequels - you've lost the element of surprise.