Quotes About Surprises

I don't know if I should plan anything. God's already given me so many surprises.

It surprises me how quickly the press likes to reach conclusions about my life.

We all know that I am not a big fan of surprises, and for whatever reason my life seems to be full of them.

At the top level you know most things about the best clubs, there aren't too many surprises.

There are going to be some real surprises in 'Fable 2.'

One of the most watched - and least meaningful - financial metrics each quarter is the number of 'earnings surprises,' or instances in which companies' profits beat analysts' expectations.

When you become a parent, you have all these ideas about how you're going to treat your kids as they get older. But as you get to those points it always changes. I actually like the surprises.

I don't go up to guys. I'm all about a guy sending me flowers, getting me chocolates and surprising me.

But hope is not about what we expect. It is an embrace of the essential unknowability of the world, of the breaks with the present, the surprises. Or perhaps studying the record more carefully leads us to expect miracles - not when and where we expect them, but to expect to be astonished, to expect that we don't know. And this is grounds to act.

How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance amid surprises, of collaborating with chance, of recognizing that there are some essential mysteries in the world and thereby a limit to calculation, to plan, to control.

Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't— and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.

Well, I could have predicted that something like this was going to happen. You can't go anywhere with Mama without things getting nuts. If it's going along too smooth she will invent something just to stir things up. Sometimes we'll be downtown

Life is full of surprises, a wise man said, and would not be worth having if it were not.

I can see there might be a positive side to this wilful averting of the eye: ignoring the bad things makes it easier for you to carry on. But ignoring the bad things makes you end up believing that bad things never happen. You are always surprised by them. It surprises you that guns kill, that money corrupts, that snow falls in winter. Such naivety can be charming; alas, it can also be perilous.

But there really was no point in asking. She read things, she knew things, and out they came, little surprises. It was strangely like unwrapping little gifts, not all of which he appreciated. She clung to facts and information, like flotsam in a shipwreck. They'd saved her.

Life is full of surprises and not all of them are good.

I don't really like surprises. Not big ones anyway. Just having a pack of Revels holds enough of a surprise for me.

The best plans of men and mice often go awry.

Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes - worse.

Man is never out of range of surprises!

It's the people y'gotta watch out for. You never know who y'might meet, or what Ol' Man Fate has in store for yah.

If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that there's not a whole lot of money for school, they won't have too many options.

Seeing an Earl as an owl on a mantelpiece, and having part of one's face removed by a cat, both on the same morning, can temporarily undermine the self-control of any man.

I love a sense of humor, I love intelligence, I love specificity, I love surprises. I'm inspired to get out of bed in the morning and fill my day with good things.