Quotes on Surprise

Surprise drives progress because innovation depends on the sort of knowledge no one can gather in a central place.

That's always the biggest surprise when people meet me: how buoyant I am and how fun and light I am.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

The day has to come when it's not a surprise that a woman has a powerful position.

There has been no great surprise, no sudden revelation. I knew pretty much what I was getting into. What I've learned is that a restaurant can be as much of an art as you want it to be, but it has to be a successful business first.

I think if you look back through time, the history of income, wealth and taxation is full of surprise. So I am not terribly impressed by those who know in advance what will or will not happen.

My first gold medal, at my first Olympics, is kind of a surprise to me. I never thought I would be in this position, but I'm so blessed and honored to be on the medal stand.

The best actors just stay in the moment,and whatever happens in the scene is a genuine surprise. You really do not know what's going to happen next. But living that out in life is very dangerous because it throws you into a place where you don't know if you're going to survive.

It was quite a surprise when I realized that with a single wormhole you could have time hook up towards the future or towards the past and that you can actually manipulate the wormhole and change how time hooked up.

The essence of comedy, drama, and horror is surprise. I have an uncanny ability to surprise people because they look at my face, and they don't know where I'm going.

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--

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

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

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

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

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.

Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

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.

...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.

Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.