Surprises Quotes

421 quotes by 377 authors

The secret to humor is surprise. — Aristotle
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. — Jane Austen
The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second. — Eric Cantona
I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alice In Chains have done that on every record.… — Jerry Cantrell
One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself. — Orson Scott Card
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers,… — Jean Cocteau
Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you are going to… — Betty Friedan
Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves. — H E Bates
Life is a series of surprises. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my passions are not… — Lord Byron
The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible.… — W. Somerset Maugham
Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try… — Condoleezza Rice
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
Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasÃ© or focused on your crotch while jabbering… — Anneli Rufus
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
A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
When we are expecting only suffering, the least joy surprises us: Suffering itself becomes the greatest of joys when we seek it as a precious… — Therese of Lisieux

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