Surprises Quotes

“Would you like to know your future?

If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.

So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises. Sometimes that beauty is too much for me to handle. Do you know that feeling? When something is just too beautiful? When someone says something or writes something or plays something that moves you to the point of tears, maybe even changes you.”
― Mark Oliver Everett, Things The Grandchildren Should Know

“God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next.”
― Carrie Underwood

“[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.”
― Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance

“Life is a spread of surprises and it is both a privilege and a challenge to respond to things and events, and find the right answers to prickly questions. In this process, however, it might be wise to change first our perception and our way of looking at things, before persistently changing the very things and altering their hallmark. (“Life out there “)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“One of the most beneficial and valuable gifts we can give to ourselves in this life: is allowing ourselves to be surprised! It is okay if life surprises you. Its a good thing!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you'll feel is regret.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Are you going to answer my questions, or do I have to whack you with a stick until delicious candy surprises fall out?”
― Molly Harper, Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs

“Surprises are everywhere in life. And they usually come from misjudging people for being less than they appear.”
― Brownell Landrum, Repercussions: DUET stories Volume IV - Adult Version

“Well, we all like things to be predictable, don't we? We expect things to be safe and to keep on happening just the way they always have. We expect the sun to rise in the morning. We expect to get up, survive the day and finish up back in bed at the end of it, ready to start all over again the next day. But maybe that's just a trick we play on ourselves, our way of making life seem ordinary. Because the truth is, life is so extraordinary that for most of hte time we can't bring ourselves to look at it. It's too bright and it hurts our eyes. The fact of the matter is that nothing is ever certain. But most people never find that out until the ground suddenly disappears from beneath their feet.”
― Steve Voake, The Dreamwalker's Child

“The surprise is that you continue to be surprised.”
― Jill A. Davis, Ask Again Later

“Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Oh, that is the surprise. It's so lovely, I pity you because you don't know it…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Men

“Have you come to gloat?' I ask, frustrated. 'To stop me?' I am not sure how powerful a kelpie is out of the water and in the shape of a man.

'To surprise you,' he says. 'Aren't surprises wonderful?”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“People are full of surprises, even for themselves, if they have been stirred enough.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“Never surprise any member of a venomous species with a home visit. It’s not only rude, it’s potentially hazardous to your health.”
― Seanan McGuire, Half-Off Ragnarok

“She had thought: why suddenly does happiness descend, out of nowhere, like an archangel, out of a day that on the face of it is like any other? How can it be that life is quite unexceptional, and then all of a sudden it is not: it becomes a marvel?”
― Penelope Lively, Perfect Happiness

“It always surprises me where my quotes end up being used in the world!”
― Steven Magee

“Love sometimes is unexpected and insufficient, yet grows in abundance.”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“I didn't much like surprises. Unless it was cake.”
― Melody J. Bremen, The Quest for the Luminae

“It's funny how that is--how you think you know a place, but there are still so many hidden surprises.'
'Just like people.”
― Louise Miller, The Late Bloomers' Club

“I try to understand, but everything I do is a surprise even to me, as if I were an unknowable amalgam full of errors, an open wound closing up and splitting open, always wavering between criticism and self-pity.”
― Gabriela Ponce, Blood Red

“Under the roar of the crowd, Leo whispers into my ear. "You are full of surprises."
"On the night we met, you said surprises aren't all they're cracked up to be."
"You're the exception to the rule."
Then, he kisses me deeply for the entire crowd to see, and I'm utterly enchanted by him.”
― Timothy Janovsky, The [Fake] Dating Game

“It's not that I don't like surprises.
I just don't always respond to them well.
You see, typically think before I speak. I deliberate before I act. But surprises...
They make it impossible to use reason and logic.
(Viscount Bardon, Maxwell)

Perhaps that's the beauty of surprises. (Miss Rebecca)”
― Maggie Dallen, Miss Rebecca's Rebellious Viscount

“All that is now being taken seriously first started out as a joke. Keep it funny, till it goes wow.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“the smallest acts of mischief, done with kindness, can brighten the world. Her example reminds us that happy surprises build goodwill.”
― Aaron Gilbee, Where the Cuckoo Lives: Other Tales Not about the Cuckoo

“The only indisputable truth that the past teaches us is that the future will always surprise us - always!”
― Benjamin Franklin, Collected Writings

“The only indisputable truth that the past teaches us is that the future will always surprise us - always!”
― Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor

“What if necessary evil had an opposite? This is what it would be. This unnecessary good.”
― Tricia Springstubb, What Happened on Fox Street

“We didn’t know what to hope for, thing or nothing. Thing meant that our day, only somewhat extraordinary, would become truly remarkable, but it would also mean that whatever else we feared—a woman sewing us into our beds while we were asleep, for example—was possible even if it wasn’t probable. It opened things up in ways both surprising and permanent.”
― Krystelle Bamford, Idle Grounds