Surprises Quotes

421 Surprises quotes by 367 unique authors

I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say. — James Taylor
Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me. — Rick Warren
A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life. — Alexander Wang
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often. — Mae West
My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more. — Kim Wilde
Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed… — Rob Zombie
Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on… — Khaled Hosseini
Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views. — George Sand
When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the… — Rebecca Solnit
...the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another; meetings which could take… — Italo Calvino
You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it. — Sarah Dessen
Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle.… — Ambrose Bierce
There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if there were no… — T.C. Boyle
When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit. — Brennan Manning
[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. — Rex Stout
The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the… — Julio Cortazar
Now, bitterly, with one sweep of the front door, the compassion was spent. To the degree that Lawrence's face was familiar, it was killingly so… — Lionel Shriver
Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises. Sometimes that beauty is too much for me to handle. Do you know that feeling?… — Mark Oliver Everett
The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed — James Howe
What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being. — Vladimir Nabokov
All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the world while that… — Nicole Krauss
I'm thinking that it might actually be possible for things to work out sometimes. Definitely not everything and maybe not the way you imagined. But… — Susane Colasanti
Even I make mistakes." I put on my brash, overconfident face. "I know it's hard to believe—kind of surprises me myself—but I guess it has… — Richelle Mead

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