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Quotes About Surprises

And it is when we are out of options that we are most ready for God's surprises.
~ Max Lucado
Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.
~ Maya Angelou
She used to say that her secret to life was that she "hoped for the best, was prepared for the worst, so anything in between didn't come as a surprise.
~ Maya Angelou
Football is not always as glamourous as some might imagine, as the story of the first time I signed Marouane Fellaini perhaps illustrates.
~ David Moyes
Climate is so full of surprises, it might even surprise us with a hidden stability. Counting on that, though, would be like playing Russian roulette with all the chambers loaded but one.
~ Stewart Brand
Friendship, however begun, is a voyage of discovery, full of perils and surprizes. (quoting Letters of Herbert Hensley Henson).
~ Susan Howatch
Maybe careers aren't something you can really plan for. They just sort of happen, like brown eyes or flat feet. I took one of those career aptitude tests last year, and it showed that I should be a flight attendant or a seamstress. Not a fashion designer or anything, mind you, but a sweatshop worker. Apparently stewardesses and sweatshop workers and I enjoy a lot of the same interests and activities.
~ Susan Juby
But life had a way of interfering with one's plans. Things popped up unexpectedly, and suddenly a carefully plotted route had to be recalculated.
~ Susan Wiggs
If I'm in a relationship, I'm 1 000% in it. I love doing things for them and surprising them. And that's just something I thoroughly enjoy and it gives me a lot of pleasure. I just haven't found that right girl yet.
~ Josh Henderson
He tells me everything he does like any guy would after coming home from work. "Hi honey, bust day at the whore house today. Had to beat up three men and pretend to smoke a little crack".
~ Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Life kept kicking you with surprises, at the back of your knees
~ Jude Morgan
A lot could happen in a week. Just look at the last one.
~ Julia Quinn
She hadn't had many lovers but the men she'd been with in the past had convinced her that sex was like a box of chocolates you never knew what you were going to get when you went to bed with a man. And sadly, you were more likely to pick the nasty pink marshmallow cream than the yummy nut cluster.
~ Evangeline Anderson
Land of extremes. Land of contrasts. Land of surprises. Land of contradictions.... That is Arizona.
~ Federal Writers Project
Perhaps the people we think we know best are the ones who surprise us most.
~ Firoozeh Dumas
Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.
~ Forrest Gump
Je croyais que la vie me donnerait une chance, me réserverait quelques surprises. Tintin. Les surprises sont pour les riches. La vie des pauvres est prévisible, on peut la raconter à l'avance.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
Life is filled with trapdoors.
~ Brad Meltzer
If everything turned out just the way everybody expected, life would be exceedingly dull, and learning in any useful sense simply would not occur.
~ Harrison H. Owen
Life is like a box of cookies.
~ Haruki Murakami
Most of the troubles in life come on all of a sudden.
~ Haruki Murakami
La vida es como una caja de galletas
~ Haruki Murakami
Just remember, life is a box of cookies.
~ Haruki Murakami
Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.
~ Brian Selznick