Surprise Quotes

You don't have to be surprised when the end comes - just read the Word of God and get the full scoop!

Well, this is basically the end, so the answers should be in these next few pages. I doubt they will surprise you, but you never know. I don't know how smart or thick you are. You could be Albert Einstein for all I know, or some literary prizewinner, or maybe you're just middle of the road like me.

The beauty of the unexpected lies within the surprise of the momentum,not only at its tipping point, but also within all the moments waiting.

Akilnathan Logeswaran

...everyone knows that road, the one leading out of town into a deep green expanse of pastures and old farmhouses, which at first makes it seem like you're entering a fairy tale, something sweet and old fashioned and lost in time. But, like all fairy tales, the beginning is always beautiful, a ruse to draw you into something you aren't anticipating.

Sarah Addison Allen

I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.

It is not a surprise that there are people we love and hate at the same time. Not as though we hate them, but we hate how they don't love us.

Michael Bassey Johnson

When everything all in a moment comes together, surprisingly perfect, it doesn’t prove there’s a loving God; but if there is, isn’t it perfect when all in a moment, God proves how surprisingly He loves?

We all wish to live every moment of our life but its the death who gives us a surprise.

I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.

It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't - which, of course, is pretty often - she is surprised and affronted.

Christina Baker Kline

Disappointment has quite a penchant for taking one by a surprise.

You are my winter suddenness—a glass of red wine spilt across a white tablecloth

Chance is the nature of our universe. […] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

When we would say 'No way,' he would say, 'My way.' Then the ones who doubted would scramble to salvage the blessing. And the one who gave it would savor the surprise.

Love is always a surprise and you never get it right.

If I’m surprised at where I’m at, it’s probably because I’m not listening to the reality that listening to the voices that I’ve listened to have put me here. So, maybe I should be less surprised and more disappointed.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Why is it always such a surprise? thinks Toby. The moon. Even though we know it's coming. Every time we see it, it makes us pause, and hush.

Margaret Atwood

That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.

Alexander McCall Smith

Nick shook his head and found to his surprise that he did have tears left after all. He wasn't surprised by a talking cat. The world was crumbling around him and anything could happen.

Garth Nix

There can never be surprises in logic.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

These occasions always took him by surprise. He was shocked anew each time the crisply surveyed, neatly kept world he so cherished rose up to confront him with all its essential sloppiness, irrationality, and bad business sense.

The man who said, "Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed," put the eulogy quite inadequately and even falsely. The truth "Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised." The man who expects nothing sees redder roses than common men can see, and greener grass, and a more startling sun. Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall possess the cities and the mountains; blessed is the meek, for he shall inhereit the earth. Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are.

G.K. Chesterton

People expect what they expect.. They never realize the possibility of surprise beyond expectations..!

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Dream big, I dreamt of being taller when I was a kid, reinforced with flashbacks everyday I exercised diligently and to my surprise, I am still 5 feet tall.

Even in the familiar there can be surprise and wonder.

Marcus and Ellie exchanged a worried look and examined the bag again. Sure enough, the gold was gone.

I've been very lucky at what's happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is an ambition of mine - anything from a mutated baddy in a comic book action thriller, to a detective. If anything, I'd like Gary Oldman's career: he's the perfect example of it. I've love to have a really broad sweep of characters - to be able to do something edgy, surprising and unfashionable.

Benedict Cumberbatch

When the unexpected meets with the unprepared, over there we find the greatest astonishments!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The wiser you become, the lesser you will be surprised!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Nobody is exempt from the surprises of life!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Surprise was not when i thanked my parents. Surprise came when they said, "What for"?

When you're in love, there's nothing that can embarrass or surprise you.

Michael R. French

Humans were always surprising me.

Stephenie Meyer

I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair and surprise.