Best 516 quotes in «surprise quotes» category

However desperate the situation and circumstances, don't despair. When there is everything to fear, be unafraid. When surrounded by dangers, fear none of them. When without resources, depend on resourcefulness. When surprised, take the enemy by surprise.

I believe in the surprises of the Holy Spirit.

I am surprising myself [at] each show, and the delivered piano often surprises me. Sometimes the piano is so old that I don't have to prepare it, and sometimes I have a concert grand!

I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

I do all that I can to surprise people and make things unpredictable because that is what makes wrestling fun.

I climbed down the outside of a Holiday Inn once just to surprise one of my crew by getting on his balcony and knocking on his window.

I don't think there's ever a moment when you can actually say, "I found it." Even when you think you did, the next moment something happens and it can drift away. It's about the evolution of love and faith. It constantly surprises us.

I'd rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do.

If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point.

I became known for surprising audiences. Except now, if I surprise them every time, they expect that.

I don't have a set working style. Some lyrics come really slow, others come in 10 minutes while I'm watching basketball. They're always a surprise to me.

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

I don't like to be constrained to any one medium. I like to surprise and amuse - and indeed, torture - myself by weaving back and forth between images and words of all sorts, and trying to create work in the end that feels "of a piece." This is why I resist calling myself a "cartoonist." It doesn't seem to describe what I do.

I don't really like surprises. Not big ones anyway. Just having a pack of Revels holds enough of a surprise for me.

I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise; you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are.

If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.

If there's one thing I can say about my garden, it can always surprise me.

If you expect greatness, greatness shouldn't surprise you.

If you're up there performing a song for the first time, it's as if you're hearing it through their ears. You become acutely self-conscious of the song in performance, so that's a good thing before recording. But I like to have some surprises for the audience; I don't want the audience to know everything that's going to be on the record, because these days, with the Internet, people become avid collectors of pre-knowledge.

I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

I have no idea what's coming next or where it will come from; I enjoy the surprise of it all.

I honestly don't remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don't remember anything being shocking to me.

I have the "thing" worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.

I'll take a quiet life, A handshake of carbon monoxide. No alarms and no surprises...

I keep my clocks a little fast / so time won't take me by surprise.

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.

I love anyone who surprises me and makes me laugh.

Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.

I love surprises and coincidences. I love them even more when I don't pass them off as luck, but rather recognize them as a sign that my life's course is right on track.

I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.

I love you,” Buttercup said. “I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I’ve ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more.

I make my own surprises and I'm always surprised to see what I do, to see it when it's finished and the biggest challenge is once I finish it, it's not a failure. It's not a flop.

I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me

I love the live cut part of making records the surprises are the prizes.

I'm just not built for fairytale surprises.

I'm not a popular actor. I don't necessarily want to be famous. I want to be known for great work. I want to be known to surprise audiences.

Impulsively, she leaned across the truck and kissed him on the cheek. He glanced over in surprise when she pulled away, but pleasure glowed in his eyes. "What was that for?" "Just seemed like the thing to do," she said. "Well, feel free to do it more often," he encouraged. "I assure you I won't mind.

I'm English and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise.

I never planned on becoming a brand name. The success of the Trump name worldwide has been a surprise.

I never understood the concept of showing everything in the trailer. Why go to a movie if there's no surprise? I can't do it like that.

In life the only thing that you can expect is the unexpected; the only surprise is a day that has none.

In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.