Surprise Quotes - Page 8

God shows up with surprises.

It surprises me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice.

The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security, but especially no big surprises, no shocks.

That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.

I don't know why it surprises people that I surprise them.

The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise.

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

I never really set out to do anything in the charts with music. It came as a total surprise that I did, and it's fun.

Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me.

Surprise, unpredictability: these are the main materials of creativity.

Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome.

Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope.

The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away.

The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.

Family is the most important thing in my life, so I guess it's not surprise that I like to write about it.

No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise.

Texture and pattern should function as a surprise.

What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.

At the age of 19, you always think you are prepared for everything and you think you have the knowledge of what?s coming ahead.

I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations.

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.

true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing