Top 10 Pleasant Surprises Quotes

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

Pleasant Surprises, Pessimist, Optimist

Rex Stout (2010). “Fer-de-Lance”, p.3, Crimeline

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

Birthday, Optimism, Pleasant Surprises

Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.

Marcus Aurelius

Goodbye, Live Your Life, Pleasant Surprises

If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.

Paulo Coelho

Suffering, Pleasant Surprises, Good Things

Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.

Audrey Tautou

Want, Pleasant Surprises, Surprise

"The Secret Life Of Audrey Tautou". Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. November 29, 2004.

It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.

Anthony Hopkins

Ivory, Pleasant Surprises, Ends

When you run into someone in NY it is usually a pleasant surprise. When you run into someone in LA you usually had a car accident.

Susan Sarandon

Running, Car, Pleasant Surprises

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Jane Austen

Inspiring, Pleasant Surprises, Foolish

'Emma' (1816) ch. 26 (Mr John Knightley)

Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick" -Pippin Took

J. R. R. Tolkien

Names, Want, Pleasant Surprises

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt