Surprise Quotes

Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises.

Abuse of power comes as no surprise

The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise.

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

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

Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.

I'll be clickin' by your house about two forty-five, Sidewalk Sundae Strawberry Surprise.

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.

What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young.

It's the mishaps that make it fun, and brings you the surprise.

Life is full of surprises, but the biggest one of all is learning what it takes to handle them.

Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.

I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.

Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible.

It is every photographer's responsibility to discover new images and a new personal way of looking at things. If he can do this his pictures will command attention and have surprise quality.

Art must take reality by surprise.

Whoever can surprise well must conquer.

The things that you can't really foresee and that kind of surprise you, and a lot of times they are bad, but other times, they bring something different and new to the table.

A surprise trigonometry quiz that everyone in class fails? Must be in the Lord’s plan to give us challenges.

The criminal does not expect his prey to fight back. May he never choose you, but, if he does, surprise him.

The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .

If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.

The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong.

Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world.

The beauty of getting older is the surprise of what else you can do to make the world a better place with the wisdom that you've accrued over those years.

Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.

The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.

The marvelous thing about lack of planning is that failure comes as a complete and utter surprise.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.

When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud or vulgar picture but, instead, that it stimulates my thinking and intrigues me.

And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.

Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

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

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of the inscrutable.

Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.

Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis on which I intended to build my arithmetic.

To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.

Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes!

I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.

Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprise at the large number that re-enlist.

What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.