A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art. — Wendy Carlos
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. — Derek Walcott
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. — Carl Sandburg
The dream is realized where you do not expect it — Greek Proverbs
Short Pleasant Surprise Quotes
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. — Charles Dickens
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. — Alexander Fleming
Surprise yourself every day with your own courage. — Denholm Elliott
One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old — Leon Trotsky
In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect. — Tristan Bernard
It's the mishaps that make it fun, and brings you the surprise. — Anna Wintour
I took it as it came and it happened to be very nice. — Gene Kelly
Always remain open to turns and surprises along the way. Welcome the unexpected. — Rick Rubin
Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought. — Robert Browning
Pleasant Surprise Image Quotes
I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised. — Kim Kardashian
It is surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feeling toward themselves, and if you are not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
What A Wonderful Surprise Quotes
Life can be wonderful. Do your best not to miss it!” Enjoy what it is before it isn't anymore. Dare to slip on a pair of bunny slippers once in a while! Surprise yourself! Enjoy the little things because one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things! — Barbara Johnson
No, explanation is not needed - only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and only then, you know what truth is. And truth liberates. — Osho
Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really 'ordinary', for every fragment of the world is crowned with wonder and mystery, and a great and surprising beauty. — Alvin Langdon Coburn
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically - to say NO to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger YES burning inside.
I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me. — Stanley Hauerwas
The whole business was like a child's toy that you could buy at the dime store, all built in this wonderful way that you could explain in Life magazine so that really a five-year-old can understand what's going on...This was the greatest surprise for everyone. — Sayings
What puts me in a vulnerable state? Beauty, wonder, surprise, mystery. Stuff like that. — Damian Kulash
When opportunity comes, it is too late to prepare.
I thought it was very elegant, a wonderful opening. The vegans seemed so surprised-God knows what they get to eat. — Gael Greene
For me, it was a wonderful surprise because I saw wonderful actors being very professional working in front of me [on Chicken with Plums]. I finally understood what an actor is and what an actor does. On a daily basis, it's a bit repetitive. — Vincent Paronnaud
It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about. — Alan Ball
The most beautiful surprise is that you have these moments where you connect with people on a deep level without saying a word. It's one of those wonderful things that you get what you give, and I'm grateful for it. — Stephen Chbosky
Unexpected Surprise Quotes
A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. — Robert Baden-Powell
Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next. — Condoleezza Rice
I am choosing happiness over suffering. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.
When you enter a fight, be prepared for anything—your opponent may surprise you with something unexpected. — Joe Rogan
Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves. — H. E. Bates
I find that the more willing I am to be grateful for the small things in life, the bigger stuff just seems to show up from unexpected sources, and I am constantly looking forward to each day with all the surprises that keep coming my way! — Louise Hay
If youre depending on luck to change your future, dont be surprised when not much changes!
That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty. — Charles Baudelaire
The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind. — Agnes Repplier
Spirituality is a mixed-up, topsy-turvy, helter-skelter godliness that turns our lives into an upside-down toboggan ride of unexpected turns, surprise bumps and bone shattering crashes ... a life ruined by a Jesus who loves us right into his arms. — Mike Yaconelli
What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising. — Brian Cox
Nice Pleasant Quotes
(`Stairway to Heaven' is) a nice pleasant, well-meaning naive little song, very English. It's not the definitive Led Zeppelin song. `Kashmir' is. — Robert Plant
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. — George Will
Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting right in front of me. — J. K. Rowling
Even though you may not always understand how, know that your situation is not a surprise to god. He will work out every detail.
It's important that Oasis are rude about everybody and that they get drunk...Fair enough. It's nice, isn't it? But it's nothing to do with me. They came to see us in Manchester and they were very pleasant boys. Very nice. I'd like to see that as a quote. Oasis are very nice boys. — Damon Albarn
I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president. — Jimmy Carter
It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy. — Chauncey Depew
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
I was pleasantly surprised after the book came out. It was like, hey, the home team put down a nice score. — Rocco DiSpirito
I'm a nice guy to anyone I meet, until they show me they don't deserve niceness. I'll turn very quickly. But I'm pretty pleasant overall. — Noel Clarke
No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back. — Meg Cabot
I don't always expect good from people. I always expect the bad and I am pleasantly surprised when they are nice. — Nick Wechsler
Big Surprises Quotes
It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises. — Stanley Schmidt
Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise. — Jeffery Deaver
The biggest winners are surprises to me, and takeovers are even more surprising. It takes years, not months, to produce big results. — Peter Lynch
Think that's what attracted me to painting so much. I could create any kind of world that I wanted. Nothing hurts here, no pain, nobody's unhappy, it's a pleasant place. Everything's nice here.
It’s very strange how electronic music formatted
itself and forgot that its roots are about the
surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race,
gender, and style of music into this big party. — Thomas Bangalter
Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big eyes, tiny nose, we go 'aaah'. That's what evolution does. We are programmed to do that. So to find babies the most amazing, isn't surprising, I don't think. — David Attenborough
The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the big surprises await us where we have learned to be surprised by nothing, that is, where we are not shocked by ruptures in the order. — Julio Cortazar
You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.
Surprisingly, maybe the place I get recognised the least is the United States. America is not so big on track and field. Some recognise me there but lots don't. — Usain Bolt
We don't have a farm-to-table food safety system. I keep saying this. It came as a big surprise to the FDA that tomatoes were being grown in the United States, sent to Mexico for packing, and then sent back. I mean, they had no idea that our food chain worked like this. — Marion Nestle
Tal's combinations often exert a sort of paralysing influence on the opponent's play. It would seem that the element of surprise plays a big part in this. — Mark Taimanov
The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security, but especially no big surprises, no shocks. — Paul Theroux
Got Surprised Quotes
Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? — Maya Angelou
The biggest surprise about making a movie has got to be the wait in between takes. — Logan Paul
I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough - love will find you. Everything's a surprise. When you think you've got it all figured out... as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded. — Hector Elizondo
Expect the unexpected! Let life surprise you in the most beautiful way.
It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set. — Lasse Hallstrom
My wife and I both made a list of 5 people we could sleep with...she read hers out and there were no surprises...1 George Clooney...2 Brad Pitt etc...I thought 'Ive got the better deal here'...1 Your sister — Michael McIntyre
My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise. — Philip Seymour Hoffman
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.
My mum told me the best time to ask my dad for anything was during sex. Not the best advice I'd ever been given. I burst in through the bedroom door saying "Can I have a new bike?". He was very upset. His secretary was surprisingly nice about it. I got the bike. — Jimmy Carr
If you're dating a man who you think might be "Mr. Right," if he a) got older, b) got a new job, or c) visited a psychiatrist, you are in for a nasty surprise. The cocoon-to-butterfly theory only works on cocoons and butterflies. — Rita Rudner
I had a meal last night. I ordered everything in French, surprised everybody. It was a Chinese restaurant. I said to this Chinese waiter, 'Look, this chicken I got here is cold.' He said, 'It should be, it's been dead two weeks.' — Tommy Cooper
Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me. — Heidi Klum
I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened. — Vanna Bonta
A very pleasant surprise was that items I thought were naughty but that I enjoyed immensely, like strong coffee, dark chocolate, nuts, high fat yoghurt, wine and cheese, are actually likely to be healthy for me and my microbes. — Tim Spector
Maybe I don't like people as much as the rest of the world seems to...But occasionally, people will pleasantly surprise me and I'll fall in love with them, so go figure. — Mark Oliver Everett
Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise. — Marcus Aurelius
If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur. — Paulo Coelho
I’ve been sort of pleasantly surprised, by the extent to which a lot of people in D.C. are honestly just trying to figure out how they can do the right thing. — Sam Bankman-Fried
I'm not afraid of being dead, that's to say there's nothing to be afraid of. I won't know I'm dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I'm alive in any way at all, that'll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises. — Christopher Hitchens
When we dare to doubt what we are told and take a fresh look at what's going on, we are in for lots of pleasant and fascinating and useful surprises. A new and more satisfying way of life begins to open up, just by noticing what we see. — Douglas Harding
When you run into someone in NY it is usually a pleasant surprise. When you run into someone in LA you usually had a car accident. — Susan Sarandon
Investment bubbles and high animal spirits do not materialize out of thin air. They need extremely favorable economic fundamentals together with free and easy, cheap credit, and they need it for at least two or three years. Importantly, they also need serial pleasant surprises in such critical variables as global GNP growth. — Jeremy Grantham
One pleasant surprise was when I interviewed Butch Patrick. I was expecting this bitter old drunk, and instead he had a total sense of humor about his career and his drinking and drug problem. — Gilbert Gottfried
One of the biggest and most pleasant surprises is that, even when you have that need to keep up an appearance of being right or knowing, there is life after admitting you don't know and that's beautiful. — Ben Lee
Are you going to shoot me?' Vengeous sneered. 'I wouldn't be surprised. What would a thing like you know about honor? Only a heathen would bring a gun to a sword fight.' And only a moron would bring a sword to a gunfight. — Derek Landy
I don't why whatever works and whatever doesn't. You just make the film that you enjoy making at the time, and you think there's a good chance that people might enjoy the story. You're surprised pleasantly when they do. It's just luck. — Woody Allen
Always plan for the worst, child; that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones. — Robert Jordan
It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised. — Bill Paxton
Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so. — Aristotle
If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age. — Freya Stark
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves. — Eric Hoffer
Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he's not, you can be pleasantly surprised. — Steve Martin
I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great - once I could have a giggle, I settled down. — Parminder Nagra
If you keep on eating unhealthy food than no matter how many weight loss tips you follow, you are likely to retain weight and become obese. If only you start eating healthy food, you will be pleasantly surprised how easy it is to lose weight. — Subodh Gupta
While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration. — Barney Frank
I really didn't have any bad hitchhiking experiences. The only bad experiences were standing by the road for 10 hours. I never thought I'd get a ride with a ministers wife or a coalminer or a Republican elected official. It was all pleasant surprises. The only drag was the waiting. — John Waters
If only you start eating healthy food, you will be pleasantly surprised how easy it is to lose weight. — Subodh Gupta
An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be. — Oscar Wilde
I always expect the worst from this evil and wicked world and am often pleasantly surprised when the worst does not come to pass, but never or rarely surprised or upset when it does. — Semir Zeki
I learned to slip back and forth between my black and white worlds. One of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied; they were relieved -- such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't seem angry all the time. — Barack Obama
So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the opposite, hiding everything interesting about herself behind a prim, plain facade. What other surprises was she concealing? — Tessa Dare
I know a lot of people who say, "I reluctantly watched the first episode because I don't really like zombies and that stuff, but I was pleasantly surprised by the characters and the drama of it all." I think that's what keeps people coming back and brings new watchers to the show. What the show does is cross many, many different viewerships. — Steven Yeun
It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations, or that the senses can verify them, much as if a composer found that sailors could heave better when singing his songs. — George Santayana
Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick" -Pippin Took — J. R. R. Tolkien
More than a pleasant surprise, Danny Schmidt was no less than a revelation to me. And that's not a word I use lightly. — Keith Morris
Pardon me, you are not engaged to any one. When you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father, should his health permit him, will inform you of the fact. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself. — Oscar Wilde
The pleasant surprise for me is that when I look into Tony's eyes, he's still 100% present, sharing everything that's going on. Acting with him is like a beautiful dance. — Genie Francis
And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan. — Gianni Agnelli
Confidence is not just in people's heads; it comes from the culture of the organization. It's easier to expect success when working in an organization that has a culture of accountability, collaboration, and initiative. Without this, it's easier - and more self-protective - to assume failure so the person is not disappointed and instead pleasantly surprised. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
I snuck in many doors and when my intelligence was revealed, or my skill set clearly seen, people were often pleasantly surprised or became jealous and scared. I faced more barriers because of my color than my gender. — Cynthia Garrett
Twitter has been a pleasant surprise for me. I never imagined that anyone would be interested in what I have to say! It's been fun hearing from fans around the world. Hearing how much the fans still enjoy Aliens, and what my character has meant to them has been awesome. I enjoy chatting and replying when I can. — Carrie Henn
There's something about Saint Francis's approach to life, zero expectations but pleasant surprise. In a lot of ways he was a really conflicted person. Some people would say he's masochistic . I don't really know, but I've always loved his reverence and his mindfulness. — Denison Witmer
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