Surprise Quotes · Page 42

Compared to dreams, reality can be truly cruel. But it can also come up with beautiful surprises.

— Nujood Ali

Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for…

— Marcus Aurelius

Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome.

— Gerd Gigerenzer

I would say that the emotional content of the film [Swiss Army Man] took me by surprise, and sometimes I would probably…

— Paul Dano

The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.

— Eric Hobsbawm

The equality of play was a surprise-it was the most competitive race in the seven-year history of MLS.

— Lamar Hunt

I always try that my next film is different than my last movie. I would like to surprise my audience; that, I…

— Harshvardhan Rane

You know who I'd like to open for? This will be a surprise, but I'll tell you who: Iron Maiden.

— Joe Bonamassa

It’s [old age] not a surprise, we knew it was coming – make the most of it. So you may not be…

— Betty White

Clearly, those of us women who play football wish that there was more coverage. But it's one of those things that happens.…

— Marta

We did the original 'Stargate' as an independent movie. It was a surprise success. Shortly before the movie came out, the financiers…

— Dean Devlin

Maria did teach us a lot. It taught us to value what we have: our friends, our neighbors, and those who helped…

— Ozuna

“I tell her, because I don't know how to say what I really want to: that the people you love can surprise…

— Jodi Picoult

It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest…

— Denise Caruso

The absence from the Dead Sea Scrolls of historical texts proper should not surprise us. Neither in the inter-Testamental period, nor in…

— Geza Vermes

When I'm working on games I don't think necessarily about what the end benefit of the game is going to be. Typically…

— Shigeru Miyamoto

While it may be a really trying, weird time for the art world, I see good work all the time. If you…

— Jerry Saltz

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Politics Is the Entertainment Branch of Industry. C-SPAN's coverage of governmental proceedings is…

— Frank Zappa

the very minute we think we 'have' God, God will surprise us. As we search in fire and earthquakes, God will be…

— Carter Heyward

He lifed his head and looked down at her seriously. "Could you," he began, then he had to clear his throat. "Could…

— Lynn Kurland

I think it's always a challenge when you're telling a story that people know. But hopefully, good storytelling - well, there's two…

— Kimberly Peirce

I'm taking (the training) a little more seriously than I normally would to speed up the process. I don't care if people…

— Matt Holliday

Ronald Reagan was notably able to avoid having personal considerations dissuade him from taking decisive actions. This may have arisen in part…

— James M Strock

I was a small business owner, father, and husband just living out in the suburbs. I kind of had a boring life…

— Frank Warren

It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can…

— Alan Ball

Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an unexpected blow on our Pacific possessions. Radio makes surprise impossible.

— Josephus Daniels

The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed

— James Howe

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we…

— Anonymous

In 2002, my daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. And it was such a shock, a surprise to us.

— Iyanla Vanzant

I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.

— Bernard Beckett

“Destiny sends us on journeys and to places that may seem to be one thing when we begin, only to show themselves…

— L.A. Banks

I just want to keep trying to surprise myself and I want to keep challenging myself.

— Jennifer Aniston

The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.

— Frank Herbert

This may surprise you, but there were a large number of valuable buys during the Depression.

— Irving Kahn

“No matter what station you hold in life, there will always be things that will surprise you. Whether you choose to be…

— Karen Hawkins

“Surely the great thing about life is that every now and then it springs a surprise on us,”

— David Lagercrantz

“Magic is a very beautiful mystery. Even the ages old magic effects still surprises the most modern men.”

— Amit Kalantri

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

— Derek Walcott

Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.

— Rodney Brooks

Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower