Quotes About Surprises

The greatest relationships are often the unexpected ones.

Life will take you in all kinds of unexpected directions and it certainly did with me.

The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.

Whether you're talking about bees, dogs, or women, pain can come upon you quickly from either one of em.

This is boxing - you can't really say what is going to happen because anything can happen in that square ring.

The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.

In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises.

Die Mannsleute sind doch immer noch schlimmer als man denkt.

Is there anything else I should know about you?" she asked in a voice that was both serious and teasing, her emotions fragile. "Any other surprises?" "Sometimes I watch Dukes of Hazzard reruns." She

In football you should never take anything for granted.

People plan, God laughs, or something like that.

can say, however, is that I've come to accept that life never turns out quite like one expects.

What I can say, however, is that I've come to accept that life never turns out quite like one expects.

Life was full of surprises, with too many bruises and not enough Band-Aids.

Life is full of so many false starts and abrupt finishes and unexpected detours. Just when you think you have it all figured out, something new comes along and rips the rug out from under you.

You never know.

and while she hadn't been looking for a knight, she hadn't been searching out ogres, either.

Stakeholders need to know that their voices have been heard and that there will be no surprises.

It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.

You had to stay awake married to him [Humphrey Bogart]. Every time I thought I could relax and do everything I wanted, he'd buck. There was no way to predict his reactions, no matter how well I knew him. As he'd said before our wedding, he expected to be happily married and stay that way, but he never expected to settle down. He liked keeping people off balance. He was good for me -- I could never be quite sure what he would do.

But maybe it's the laboring that gives you shape. Might the most fulfilling times be those spent solo at your tasks, literally immersed or not, when you are able to uncover the smallest surprises and unlikely details of some process or operation that in turn exposes your proclivities and prejudices both?

It is a place that 'grows upon you' every day. There seems to be always something to find out in it. There are the most extraordinary alleys and by-ways to walk about in. You can lose your way (what a comfort that is, when you are idle!) twenty times a day, if you like; and turn up again, under the most unexpected and surprising difficulties. It abounds in the strangest contrasts; things that are picturesque, ugly, mean, magnificent, delightful, and offensive, break upon the view at every turn.