Best Surprise Sayings

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The biggest surprise in a man's life is old age. — Ben Kingsley
We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us. — W. Somerset Maugham
Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been… — Mary McCarthy
When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in peace they lose… — Lewis Mumford
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… — Patrick Ewing
Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen… — Alice Meynell
Do you know how I feel about that? I'm sure this is no big surprise... what a mistake. I should never have voted for that,… — Harry Reid
I am thrilled to be an Olympian, and I think that although we will be underdogs we can beat many teams and will be a… — Steve Nash
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is… — Edward Dahlberg
Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead. — Katrina Kenison
Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it… — Leo Buscaglia
Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasé or focused on your crotch while jabbering… — Anneli Rufus
This is what I call understanding. If you understand, insecurity is an intrinsic part of life - and good that it is so, because it… — Rajneesh
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… — Rajneesh
The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have… — Willem de Kooning
What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room. — Lisa Alther
This is a big deal. It's a fairly natural partnership; it shouldn't surprise people, ... We're working on bringing this network-is-the-computer, Net services environment. — Scott McNealy
Death in its way comes just as much of a surprise as birth. — Edna O'Brien
Don't simply dismiss a coincidence and let it drift away. Life is totally interconnected. These unusual 'things' are simply connections that surprise you because you… — Deepak Chopra
A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them… — Carlos Castaneda
Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain-there is nothing in the whole system if laws… — Arthur Eddington
Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that. — Alan Redpath
That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration. — Agnes Martin

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