Best 516 quotes in «surprise quotes» category

Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible.

My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

My biggest surprise is probably the level of involvement of all the artists [in Valerian] who participated at every level.

My biggest surprise when I became a mom was how I had so much love inside me to give to someone.

My favorite part of any event is a Q&A. I do get asked a lot of the same questions but every now and then someone surprises me - and I LOVE that.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

Nobody will finish above us in the league. It wouldn't surprise me if we were to go unbeaten for the whole of the season. The challenge now is to dominate English football for a long time.

My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.

My remoteness from women's affairs could be seen from my surprise when I heard that needles had holes in them.

My tribulations are so great, my life so disturbed by the plans daily invented to further the King's wicked intention, the surprises which the King gives me, with certain persons of his council, are so mortal, and my treatment is what God knows, that it is enough to shorten ten lives, much more mine.

New Yorkers, we've seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years; we know who he is. So he wasn't a surprise to me.

My love can't be purchased Best gifts have been well-thought-out surprises.

Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.

No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise.

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise, fear and surprise; two chief weapons, fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency! Er, among our chief weapons are: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and near fanatical devotion to the Pope! Um, I'll come in again.

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

Normally I wouldn't spoil anything because I love surprises - I don't even shake my presents at Christmas.

Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore.

Nothing human surprises me.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Sometimes I surprise my own damn self.

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you do under pressure.

Surprise is inherent in the structure of the world.

Surprise comes from defying expectations.

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