Surprise Quotes - page 33

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually. (Brian Eno)
Wherever death may surprise us, let it be welcome, provided that this, our battle cry, may have reached some receptive ear. View quote
Che Guevara
Without preparedness superiority is not real superiority and there can be no initiative either. Having grasped this point, a force which is inferior but prepared, can often defeat a superior enemy by surprise attack. View quote
Mao Zedong
Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you go down in the woods today You're sure of a big surprise. If you go down in the woods today You'd better go in disguise. For ev'ry bear that ever there was Will gather there for certain, because Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic. View quote
Jimmy Kennedy
I think they're an honest bunch. I wish them well. I hope they surprise and confound a few people. It's good for the game in America if they do. If they can make a ripple or two, that pushes the game on again. View quote
Ian Darke
How can a missionary in such circumstances meet the surprise and questions of his pupils, unless he may point to that seed, and tell them what Christianity was meant to be; unless he may show that. like all other religions, Christianity, too, has had its history. View quote
Max Müller
[F]olks would better off dipping their heads in a bucket of liquid [nitrogen] and battering them against a tree very very hard than reading Baxter's Titan. It would not surprise me if reading that book causes birth defects. View quote
James Nicoll
In the first place, it is not improper to observe, that the law of cases of necessity is not likely to be well furnished with precise rules; necessity creates the law, it supersedes rules; and whatever is reasonable and just in such cases, is likewise legal; it is not to be considered as matter of surprise, therefore, if much instituted rule is not to be found on such subjects. View quote
William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell
He entered; but the mask he wore Concealed his face from me. Still, something I had seen before He brought to memory. "Who art thou? What thy rank, thy name?" I questioned, with surprise; "Thyself" the laughing answer came, "As seen of others' eyes." View quote
John B. Tabb
Unfortunately, the public is all gaga over the idea of replacing a card swipe with an NFC pass-over using a smartphone. Go ahead and believe that. But if you think it is also hacker-proof, you'll be in for a surprise. It's no safer than using the mattress to stash cash. At some point, you can expect to be robbed blind. (John C. Dvorak)
Many actresses do that kind of shoot when they are in their early 20s but I didn't think I had anything to worry about so I decided to go for it. I was very pleased with the results and it was also nice to surprise a few people. View quote
Sharon Stone
You are a surprise for me./ Every moment./ You are unpredictable in your love./ You cannot be controlled by my love. View quote
Kuruvilla Pandikattu
It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good. View quote
Anthony Hopkins
We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order. This is no surprise, given that for most of its written history, leadership has been defined in terms of its control functions. View quote
Margaret Wheatley
It is something of a lovely surprise that the irregular conjugation of our most nondescript verb is thus a record of a time when man had no independent word for 'existence' and could only say that something 'grows' or that it "breathes.”. View quote
Julian Jaynes
For a start, let's look at the Grotto itself. By and large these are extremely aptly named, 'Grot' meaning rubbish and 'Oh' being exclamation of disappointed surprise. View quote
Peter Corey
Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right. View quote
Mark Twain
It is no surprise that the Washington Post is thrilled about Khizr Khan's "brutal repudiation of Donald Trump,” even though Khan, not quite accurately, claims that Trump wants to "ban us from this country.” Trump has said nothing about banning Muslim citizens of the U.S. from the country, only about a temporary moratorium on immigration from terror states. In any case, all the effusive praise being showered on Khizr Khan today overlooks one central point: he is one man. His family is one family. There are no doubt many others like his, but this fact does not mean that there is no jihad, or that all Muslims in the U.S. are loyal citizens. View quote
Robert Spencer
His eyes All radiant with glad surprise, Looked forward through the Centuries And saw the seeds which sages cast In the world's soil in cycles past Spring up and blossom at the last; Saw how the souls of men had grown, And where the scythes of Truth had mown Clear space for Liberty's white throne; Saw how, by sorrow tried and proved, The blackening stains had been removed Forever from the land he loved; Saw Treason crushed and Freedom crowned, And clamorous Faction, gagged and bound, Gasping its life out on the ground. View quote
Richard Realf
He knew there must be a Ring, and he patted his pocket where he had it; he thought there should be a Best Man, though when he wrote so to Daily Alice she wrote that they didn't believe in that; and as for Rehearsals, she said when he mentioned them, "Don't you want it to be a surprise?" (John Crowley)
We burden ourselves with useless ideas which we carelessly take as facts. Instead of letting reality come as a new surprise, we insist that it conform to our habitual concepts, and thus, we spoil everything. View quote
Vernon Howard
If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML. View quote
Tim Berners-Lee
Two Chinese coolies were arguing heatedly in the midst of a crowd. A stranger expressed surprise that no blows were being struck. His Chinese friend replied: "The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out." View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the '80s it was a surprise to me. View quote
Billy Childish