Surprises Quotes

421 Surprises quotes by 367 unique authors

Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our knowledge, even the… — Pope Benedict XVI
If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking… — Douglas Coupland
What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives. — Douglas Coupland
When you've come face-to-face with the dark side of the school yard, life doesn't hold many surprises. — Eoin Colfer
I expected something a little more castle-shaped," said Jamie. Nothing lasts forever," Nick said. "Except demons, of course." Has anyone ever told you that you're… — Sarah Rees Brennan
It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination.… — Stephen Hawking
The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises . — Jorge Amado
Life always holds in store surprises that are more complex and unforeseeable than any dream, and the secret is to let them come and not… — Ãlvaro Mutis
Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You… — Sara Zarr
Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises… — Lois Lowry
I'm just full of surprises." Watching her, he waved the wrapped bar from side to side. "You can have the candy if you sit on… — Nora Roberts
One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made… — Edith Wharton
He'd written me up a proposal of why dating him was a sound decision. It had included things like "I'll give up cigarettes unless I… — Richelle Mead
But somewhere, a child surprises himself with his endurance, his quick mind, his dexterous hands. Somewhere a child accomplishes with ease that which usually takes… — Garth Stein
I knew he was unreliable, but he was fun to be with. He was a child’s ideal companion, full of surprises and happy animal energy.… — E L Doctorow
I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I don’t remember nothing,… — Patrick Ness
Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead,… — E. M. Forster
I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises. — Elizabeth Gilbert
There is nothing for it but for all of us to invent our own ideal libraries of classics. I would say that such a library… — Italo Calvino
There can never be surprises in logic. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
One dictionary defines denouement as "a final part in which everything is made clear and no questions or surprises remain." By that definition, it is… — Pseudonymous Bosch
But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises. — Steven Erikson
Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we… — Rebecca Solnit
Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable... or make it your last. — T.A. Barron

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