Quotes about Surprise

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

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

The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it.

Faith in God - life can never take you by surprise again.

As I listen to leaders tell their stories, I hear very little about strategic planning and goal setting. I hear a lot about identifying and acting on opportunities. Strategies and goals have their place. But they don't define leadership. Leaders see and seize opportunity. And in most cases, the opportunities take them by surprise.

It was a shock to everyone when I became a rapper. Huge shock to everyone. But I knew it all along. I just didn't want to tell anybody cause then it's like, What if it doesn't work?

If you told teenage me that I would end up supporting Tegan and Sara for a month in North America, my head would have probably exploded.

Basically, I love Loki and I found out that Marvel were making a television show about him. Like everyone, I saw him die in 'Infinity War,' and I was horrified.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting…. Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.

In sum, if Jesus isn't surprising you, you've probably stopped growing spiritually.

Truth is both reason and revelation—and both can surprise us.

but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.