Surprise Quotes - Page 5

Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise.

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

Faith in God - life can never take you by surprise again.

I am Abhorsen..." He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel

Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then.

Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises.

The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.

Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?

In life the only thing that you can expect is the unexpected; the only surprise is a day that has none.

There's not much TV these days where you really get that element of surprise. There are so many spoilers all the time.

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

I may … surprise you - but I shall not deceive you.

The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people, to present them with something they didn't expect.

There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.

Surprise me! Yogi's reply when he was asked by his wife, Carmen, where he would like to be buried

You have to follow where the poem leads. And it will surprise you. It will say things you didn't expect to say. And you look at the poem and you realize, 'That is truly what I felt.' That is truly what I saw.

Surprise is the mother of panic.

Surrender is a state of living in the flow, trusting what is, and being open to serendipity and surprises.

The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed

The success of an assailant's attack depends on surprise, and if you're sufficiently alert to prevent a surprise, your counterattack is already halfway to being successful.

The eye is made to see and not to think.... A good photograph is a surprise. How could we plan and foresee a surprise? We just have to be ready.

There are very few things that surprise me.

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

Everybody likes a few surprises; it's a perfectly natural human craving.

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.