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Surprise Quotes

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Life is full of surprises, some good, some not so good.
Pablo Escobar

Life is unpredictable; some experiences are positive, while others may be more challenging.
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A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
Robert Baden-Powell

A Scout is never caught off guard; he is always prepared to take action when anything unforeseen occurs.
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Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous.
Gene Wilder

Unanticipated delights lurking at each bend, yet nothing hazardous.
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A woman's mind is as complex as the contents of her handbag; even when you get to the bottom of it, there is ALWAYS something at the bottom to surprise you!
Billy Connolly

A woman's mind is as intricate as the depths of her purse; even when you think you've seen it all, there is always something unexpected at the bottom!
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Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond His control.
Joni Eareckson Tada

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When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!
Alexander Calder

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What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.
Aldo Rossi

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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
Alan Turing

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I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.
James Lovelock

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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Thomas Hardy

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It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.
Erwin McManus

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Don't plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.
Julia Alvarez

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I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything
Charles Dickens

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It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.
Stanley Schmidt

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I'd rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do.
Helen Frankenthaler

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Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.
George Sand

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When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.
Will Rogers

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Elegance is the balance between PROPORTION, EMOTION & SURPRISE.
Valentino Garavani

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Unsolicited surprise requests from strangers are essentially guaranteed to be met with a negative response.
Terence Tao

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

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Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.
Frida Kahlo

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There's no bigger surprise than to be tooling along at 200 MPH and suddenly get hit from the rear
Darrell Waltrip

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Rain never understands why people hide under their umbrellas! Let us make a surprise to the rain by closing our umbrellas!
Mehmet Murat Ildan

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The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better.
Jay Roach

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This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.
Wietse Venema

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To create a perfume you have to be the servant of the unconscious. Each idea evolves and transforms, but there should be a surprise with each note.
Serge Lutens

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

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What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed.
Rita Hayworth

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To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.
James P. Carse

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

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Passion surprises. One doesn't search it. It can happen to you tomorrow.
Isabelle Adjani

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Great fashion is all about surprise. It should always be about doing something that isn't by the book.
Reed Krakoff

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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

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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
Agnes Martin

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Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.
Lewis Thomas

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Surprise! The returns reported by mutual funds aren't actually earned by mutual fund investors.
John C. Bogle

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Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit...
Stonewall Jackson

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The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.
Eric Hobsbawm

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Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.
J. C. Ryle

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I'm English and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise.
Bill Bailey

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The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things.
Robert Nozick

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You're always under the microscope, and you don't know which mission you're going to get. It's a surprise.
Julie Payette

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Penguins mate for life. Which doesn't really surprise me, because they all look exactly alike. It's not like they're gonna meet a better-looking penguin someday.
Ellen DeGeneres

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God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire.
Charles R. Swindoll

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The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognise your own worth.
Maxwell Maltz

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Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.
Julius Caesar

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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life
Marcus Aurelius

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During a race where everyone holds their own truth, the finish line is a surprise.
Akiane Kramarik

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Abuse of power comes as no surprise
Jenny Holzer

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Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises.
James Hollis