Surprises Quotes

421 Surprises quotes by 367 unique authors

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at… — Henry Steele Commager
I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me,… — Gloria Steinem
Let us not have a computer psychology that makes us think we know it all. All answers on computers - but no surprises. The challenge… — Pope Francis
Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past. — Brad Meltzer
Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore. — Brett Favre
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Politics Is the Entertainment Branch of Industry. C-SPAN's coverage of governmental proceedings is wonderful. Caution! Buffoons… — Frank Zappa
You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self. — William Stafford
Investment bubbles and high animal spirits do not materialize out of thin air. They need extremely favorable economic fundamentals together with free and easy, cheap… — Jeremy Grantham
Do something that surprises yourself cause if you don't surprise yourself, you're not going to surprise anybody else. — Logan Henderson
Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality. — Ori Hofmekler
Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. — Anne Lamott
Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's rules and… — Anais Nin
The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety… — Samuel Johnson
Nice writing isn't enough. It isn't enough to have smooth and pretty language. You have to surprise the reader frequently, you can't just be nice… — Anne Bernays
Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises. — Charles Wheelan
My biggest surprises in my everyday job have to do with the challenges of trying to be slightly more responsible as a brand. — Stella McCartney
I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes… — Jhonen Vasquez
I like the serendipitous surprises of reality. — Lawrence Wright
Entropy is Janus-faced. Its upside surprises are redemptive and favorable to freedom. It is freedom of choice. But the carrier itself requires constant vigilance against… — George Gilder
Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of the inscrutable. — Archibald Rutledge
I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no… — Danica McKellar
It surprises me how much children like me, you know? If they look at me as an example, I have a big responsibility. — Mario Balotelli
Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand. — Steven Amsterdam
I think there's a part in each one of us that wants the impossible to happen, and that's what surprises are. — Gina Carano
Casper Wyo., population 18,000 when I was born, was large enough to hold the surprises of civilization, but small enough that the prairie was close… — Lynne Cheney

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