Quotes about Surprise

What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.

Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise.

For it is sure to come; and if or not it's now not just as we have pictured it, it will likely be infinitely sweeter.

And life (or God) seems to reply, "Get ready! The other shoe is going to drop. When? I want to surprise you.

I wake up every morning literally with a smile on my face, grateful for another day I never thought I'd see.

Two people who are surprised by a lion in a jungle clearing will — unless one of them is eaten — be effectively bonded by what they have seen.

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.

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.