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Quotes About Surprises

We don't know where we'll end up, but making moments matter - taking a step back to see something from a different vantage point and investing in your core values - can lead to a world of surprises.
~ Nina Tassler
I've found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at various times and I truly believe that 51% of the images, success takes place in the darkroom.
~ John Sexton
Not with me there," I said, and although I admit it sounded rather boastful, not at all my usual style of modest self-effacement, I really did believe it. "Really, Jackie, this guy is not capable of any real surprises.
~ Jeff Lindsay
life was just full of surprises lately, and they all boiled down to one thing: People really deserve whatever happens to them, don't they?
~ Jeff Lindsay
In the end, it all comes down to how you cope with the unforeseen.
~ Jeffrey Archer
No escape plan can ever be foolproof,' interjected the brigadier. 'In the end, it all comes down to how you cope with the unforeseen.
~ Jeffrey Archer
Expected surprises.
~ Unknown
You can never tell who's sitting on the next bar stool.
~ Unknown
route, one you hadn't planned on taking. You may not make it exactly at the time you thought you would reach your destination because of unforeseen variables.
~ Tyler Perry
I love boats. Boats are great. You can get all kinds of places and meet all kinds of interesting people, and you never know if they're going to try to eat you or worship you.
~ Unknown
Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
~ Betty Friedan
Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.
~ Harold Geneen
Happiness can get boring, because it is the satisfaction of our desires, and we know what we desire. (Can you desire what you do not know?) Joy never gets boring because it transcends our desires and surprises them with gifts.
~ Peter Kreeft
Ignoring the vices of our friends and the virtues of our enemies sets us up for nasty surprises.
~ Philip E. Tetlock
The Public School, he had long ago decided, was neurotic. It wanted a world in which nothing new came about, in which there were no surprises. And that was the world of the compulsive-obsessive neurotic; it was not a healthy world at all.
~ Philip K. Dick
No surprises, no practical jokes, nothing unexpected, but a parent can't control everything, and there's a world of backfiring cars and their human equivalents.
~ David Sedaris
cât de stupid e s? speri ca, dac? un b?rbat te dezam?geÈ™te, altul s?-È›i fac? surprize pl?cute, cât e de stupid în general s? speri.
~ Zeruya Shalev
My agents love pranking me.
~ Winston Duke
No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.
~ Curtis Joseph
My daughter is one of my greatest inspirations. She's an environmentalist, she plays piano, she's raising money for the earthquake victims in Nepal. Every day she surprises me and teaches me something.
~ Patti Smith
Videogames have existed for almost 40 years now, yet every year, we see major and unexpected advances.
~ Tim Sweeney
Prayers are answered in ways we don't choose. The river of grace bubbles up in unexpected places.
~ Unknown
Snakes dislike surprises,' Rupert said. To Mrs. Pembroke he added, 'You frightened her. She attacked because she thought she was in danger.' 'Oh, you had time to discern that it was a female?' she said, her voice higher than usual. 'Might have been,' he said. 'She was pretty enough. Did you note the markings?
~ Loretta Chase
Daddy always pointed out, it should come as no surprises to anyone that merchants want to move their wares-it's sorta what they do, after all. But that's just BUSINESS and that has nothing to do with CHRISTMAS.
~ Jill Conner Browne