Quotes About Surprises

We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition.

Books make great gifts because they can unveil hidden secrets.

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.

History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

In spite of the surprises and anxieties and responsibilities of living, this was rather a nice world.

What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

If you open that Pandora's Box you never know what Trojan 'orses will jump out.

Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises.

There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed. ... It is a lawless element, full of surprises.

No. No more surprises. No more secrets. Or so help me, I will rip off your own leg and beat you with it.

Be careful what you wear to bed, because you never know where you might wake up.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

Forrest Gump had gotten it all wrong. Life wasn't a box of chocolates. It was a box of ex-lax, and I felt like I'd consumed the entire thing.

Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Each of us may think we know exactly what we need to make us happy, what will be good for us, what will ensure we have our happy ending, but life rarely works out in the way we expect, and our happy ending may have all sorts of unexpected twists and turns, be shaped in all sorts of unexpected ways

What surprises, etymology tells us, is what is "beyond grasp." Even the mind of the author cannot seem to keep what has been found: great poems exceed their creators. They are more capacious, capricious, compassionate, original, witty, strange, avaricious for beauty and range. The writer's life, the historical times, do not make the art. Art makes art.

My mother always said to keep my eyes open for the unexpected good, the little treasures.

Travel is a joy, full of surprises. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster: the risks add spice, and make for great stories when you are safely back home again.

Travel is a joy, full of surprises and astonishing new experiences. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster; the risks add spice.

Blessings sometimes show up in unrecognizable disguises.

C'était précisément ce que je commençais à remarquer de mon côté : comment tout était lié, comment les mauvaises choses qui se produisaient parfois débouchaient finalement sur de bonnes surprises.

I didn't want any surprises; I churlishly thought if I revealed my Judaism at McDonald's, I would somehow be protected by the friendly American forces of crispy chicken sandwiches and supersized French fries.