Surprise Quotes - page 2

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off. (Karl Kraus)
Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis on which I intended to build my arithmetic. View quote
Gottlob Frege
Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel. View quote
Walter Scott
The secret to humor is surprise. View quote
Aristotle
From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint you most bitterly, but up close it can hit you as a bewildering surprise. View quote
Tom Perrotta
I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise. View quote
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there. View quote
Keegan-Michael Key
They're on their way to the foreign-language wing. That's no surprise. The foreign kids are always here, like they need to breathe air scented with their native language a couple times a day or they'll choke to death on too much American. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
It's like a cast of actors; you're all working together closely under pressure to produce something everyday. And when we put up an issue, it's like the curtains opening on a new play. I really like that daily sense of surprise. View quote
David Talbot
It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again. View quote
Sonny Rollins
I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic. (Will Estes)
The Prophets even express their surprise that God should take notice of man, who is too little and too unimportant to be worthy of the attention of the Creator; how, then, should other living creatures be considered as proper objects for Divine Providence! View quote
Maimonides
Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown - even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to. View quote
Paulo Coelho
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. View quote
Paulo Coelho
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before - a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Surprise is key in all art. View quote
Oscar Niemeyer
I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality. View quote
Yann Martel
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty. View quote
Margot Asquith
Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To surprise the enemy is to defeat him. View quote
Alexander Suvorov
I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me. (Ben Kingsley)
The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people: to present them with something they didn't expect. View quote
Christopher Lee
It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear. It is even perhaps the disappearance of reality that triggered this technical form. Reality found a way to mutate into an image. View quote
Jean Baudrillard
The absence from the Dead Sea Scrolls of historical texts proper should not surprise us. Neither in the inter-Testamental period, nor in earlier biblical times, was the recording of history as we understand it a strong point among the Jews. View quote
Geza Vermes
If anything is a surprise then there is not much difference between older and younger because the only thing that does make anybody older is that they cannot be surprised. View quote
Gertrude Stein