Surprise Us Quotes

34 quotes by 33 authors

When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's… — Matthew Bourne
Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and may… — Joan Didion
The Lord is always there waiting to give us his love: it is an amazing thing, one which never ceases to surprise us! — Pope Francis
Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a… — Max Lucado
Trials should not surprise us, or cause us to doubt God's faithfulness. Rather, we should actually be glad for them. God sends trials to strengthen… — Edmund Clowney
Why does corruption in government always surprise us? Why do we expect anything else from it? Government is organized force. It takes our wealth and… — Joseph Sobran
Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We must pray constantly for His enabling grace to say no to temptation, of choosing to take all practical steps to avoid known areas of… — Jerry Bridges
The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded. — Kenneth E. Boulding
Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us. — Maria Montessori
Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not… — Garrison Keillor
Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape and all surfaces,… — Henry David Thoreau
The notion that the UN is some sort of dispassionate body that, does right and just pursues everybody's best interests is a fantasy. Each individual… — Mona Charen
One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a… — Michel de Montaigne
A first fact should surprise us, or rather would surprise us if we were not used to it. How does it happen there are people… — Henri Poincare
That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us. — Nick Flynn
In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all. — Krzysztof Kieslowski
A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or… — Walter Pater
Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to… — Che Guevara
None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise… — Vaclav Havel

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