Surprise Quotes

It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't - which, of course, is pretty often - she is surprised and affronted.

~ Christina Baker Kline

I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.

~ Lisa Kleypas

We all wish to live every moment of our life but its the death who gives us a surprise.

~ Neymat Khan

When everything all in a moment comes together, surprisingly perfect, it doesn’t prove there’s a loving God; but if there is, isn’t it perfect when all in a moment, God proves how surprisingly He loves?

~ Geoffrey Wood

It is not a surprise that there are people we love and hate at the same time. Not as though we hate them, but we hate how they don't love us.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.

~ Deb Caletti

...everyone knows that road, the one leading out of town into a deep green expanse of pastures and old farmhouses, which at first makes it seem like you're entering a fairy tale, something sweet and old fashioned and lost in time. But, like all fairy tales, the beginning is always beautiful, a ruse to draw you into something you aren't anticipating.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

The beauty of the unexpected lies within the surprise of the momentum,not only at its tipping point, but also within all the moments waiting.

~ Akilnathan Logeswaran

Her face lit up, illuminated by the enlightenment of recognition and the innocence of surprise.

~ Joss Sheldon

Well, this is basically the end, so the answers should be in these next few pages. I doubt they will surprise you, but you never know. I don't know how smart or thick you are. You could be Albert Einstein for all I know, or some literary prizewinner, or maybe you're just middle of the road like me.

~ Markus Zusak

The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.

~ Ted Cruz

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.

~ Garrison Keillor

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

~ Chevy Chase

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

~ Lorrie Moore

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

~ Alice Walker

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

~ Charles Morgan

Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take.

~ Nancy Gibbs

To my surprise, the more I searched about Qi Xiangfu, the more I found of a life lived partly online. He once wrote a short memoir in which he described himself in the third person, with the formality usually reserved for China's most famous writers.

~ Evan Osnos

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

~ Wallace Stevens

Think of your favorite teacher you ever had in school: the one who made it the most fun to go to class. They surprise you. They keep you guessing. They keep you coming back, wanting to know what's going to happen next.

~ Pete Carroll

Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it's no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized test scores, you won't improve education; you just promote the high-stakes testing craze that's led parents, students and educators to shout 'Enough!' all across the country.

~ Randi Weingarten

If it comes as a constant surprise each and every time something unexpected occurs, you're not only going to be miserable whenever you attempt something big, you're going to have a much harder time accepting it and moving on to attempts two, three, and four.

~ Ryan Holiday

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

~ Che Guevara

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

~ Kenny G

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

~ Ashley Montagu

I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.

~ Gina Carano

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

~ Oscar Niemeyer

I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.

~ Heywood Broun

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

~ Wendy Carlos

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

~ Derek Walcott

And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing.

~ Emily Watson

Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy is expected to lead, so it doesn't surprise or offend.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

~ Pamela Anderson

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

~ Mary Ritter Beard

Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.

~ Margaret Cho

To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.

~ Lionel Blue

I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings.

~ Ron Ben-Israel

Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is big on buzz but is not the stunning surprise claimed by many pundits. It is rather a further example of the German theology professor's style that informed his years as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, his term as pope, and the formation of his legacy to the church.

~ Eugene Kennedy

I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise.

~ Mark Gatiss

About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load.

~ Alan Thicke