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Quotes About Surprise

Oh goody! I can't wait! Jayne? Can we go get slaughtered by my brother I never knew I still had? Can we please!" -Hadrian
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
This was about as much fun as a surprise birthday party, which Hunter ranked alongside boats that sank.' (Hunter)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.
~ Colum McCann
I guess in life I find people who, at first glance, appear to be very typical or average, whatever that means, and then turn out to have hidden qualities.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
The thing you hope will never happen to you might just happen to someone else instead, who has been spending their life dreading the thing that will happen to you.
~ Daniel Handler
It's funny how things happen in life. Sometimes, you just take the opportunity when it comes. Life can be surprising.
~ Denise Di Novi
Life is full of all sorts of things, and I never expected to be a part of this. I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer. So you never know.
~ Erin Wasson
What will happen in those encounters? Who knows? It wouldn't be much fun if you knew all of that; you'd be watching an old video called your life.
~ Frederick Lenz
Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
My childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life.
~ Natalia Vodianova
Life doesn't often turn out the way we think it will, does it?
~ Nicholas Sparks
You almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do, there is a feeling, nearly, though very briefly, of shock and grief.
~ Nicholson Baker
My life wasn't how I planned it would be. It wasn't even close. It was a thousand times better.
~ Nicole Williams
I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?
~ Penelope Wilton
Whatever I think, whatever I try to do, life might just turn around and... and hitch up its pants and throw me a twenty-dollar bill.
~ Peter Milligan
Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.
~ Peter O'Toole
Never is my life have I ever experienced anything as crazy as this.
~ Puff Daddy
This was the last thing I expected. You destroy my life and then feed me some inspiratonal philosophy.
~ Richelle Mead
Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He was not at all surprised by your birth. In fact, he expected it.
~ Rick Warren
I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.
~ Rita Dove
We'll do what life always does defy expectations.
~ Robert Charles Wilson
In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show.
~ Samuel Johnson
I didn't even cry, I was stunned. You know, and that's just how fast life turns. It turns on a dime.
~ Sandra Lee
People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life and I don't have one friend who is an actor!
~ Sara Paxton