Quotes about Surprise
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
— George Bernard Shaw
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
— John Keats
You know, you might not think that Wigglytuff can, like, throw a thunder or lightning-type move at you. But, oh, just you watch.
— Bowen Yang
You know, you might not think that Wigglytuff can, like, throw a thunder or lightning-type move at you. But, oh, just you watch.
— Bowen Yang
Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
— Francis de Sales
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
— Samuel Johnson
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
— Samuel Johnson
The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
— Samuel Johnson
God is raising up His heroes and the time will come when they will appear and the world will wonder where they came from.
— AW Tozer
He shook-a me up, he took me by surprise. He had a pickup truck, and the devil's eyes. He stared at me and I felt a change. Time meant nothing, never would again.
— Richard O'Brien
Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.
— St. Augustine
It is sometimes fortunate, that the means which are taken to produce certain effects upon the mind have a tendency directly opposite to what is expected.
— Maria Edgeworth