Top 100 Don't Be Surprised Quotes
#1. The rainbow comes and goes. Enjoy it while it lasts. Don't be surprised by its departure, and rejoice when it returns.
Anderson Cooper
#2. Don't be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings
John Piper
#3. If you surround yourself with clowns, don't be surprised when your life resembles a circus.
Steve Maraboli
#4. The last human of importance the American people have been able to keep in the working end of their brain is your own Chicago triggerman, Dillinger. After him they kind of lost hold on keeping who's who straight. So don't be surprised if they don't remember who Cabot Wright is, or if they do.
James Purdy
#5. You may pray to God to remove the hills on your way and fill every pothole on your path; but don't be surprised if God gives you a shovel to do so!
Israelmore Ayivor
#6. Beware of those who speak ill of others in your presence; don't be surprised of what they say about you in your absence.
A.J. Garces
#7. You get a few of them together and don't be surprised if pipes and drums appear out of nowhere. It is a sort of magic people believe in ...
Thomm Quackenbush
#8. Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
Hafez
#9. Calls ignored, texts unanswered, short replies, excuses made. All I can say is don't be surprised when you're not in my future.
Behdad Sami
#10. If you design a system to do something specific, don't be surprised if it does it. If you run an education system based on standardization and conformity that suppresses individuality, imagination, and creativity, don't be surprised it that's what it does.
Ken Robinson
#11. Jesus Christ was the most perfect being to ever walk this planet and he was persecuted and nailed to the cross ... so please don't be surprised when we get a little static.
Phil Robertson
#12. Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.
Gary Zukav
#13. If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.
Jeffrey Archer
#14. Cause I was stayin home when they was having fun. So please don't be surprised when they announce that I won.
Drake
#15. In 2025, don't be surprised if a Chinese flag is placed on the moon.
Michio Kaku
#16. When you want to know how God wants you to reach your city, start a new church, or be involved in His work, ask Him. Then when He tells you, don't be surprised if you can't find any church that is doing it the same way.
Henry T. Blackaby
#17. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.
Tom Robbins
#18. It's a good thing to lend a hand, just don't be surprised when it gets bit.
Chris Isaak
#19. Don't be surprised when you see people you thought you knew act weirdly. People change. We change. Even the world change.
Sylvia L'Namira
#20. If you as a pastor don't have a passion for evangelism then don't be surprised if your people done either.
Aubrey Malphurs
#21. As your employer, if I see that you have to work hard to get your results, yet your coworkers achieve their results with little effort, don't be surprised if I'm not all that impressed with your hard work.
Larry Winget
#22. When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.
Will Rogers
#23. Don't be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage
Mike Tyson
#24. If I should fall asleep and death takes me away,
Don't be surprised son, I wasn't put here to stay.
Lauryn Hill
#26. If you look for Bigfoot, don't be surprised if you find yourself in the process.
Autumn Williams
#27. There is one thing sure about life: Life will push us hardly many times! When you are pushed, don't be surprised; stay firm like a plane tree or be elastic like a bamboo!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#28. As a citizen of a community, if you never vote or engage, don't be surprised when the outcome doesn't serve your interests; you've never done anything to push things in the right direction.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#29. If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.
Milton Friedman
#30. This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.
Marilyn Manson
#31. Don't be surprised if you all see me in different kinds of cinema.
Tena Desae
#32. If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.
Chuck Palahniuk
#33. It's good to have plans and dreams, but don't be surprised if God brings you somewhere else.
Anne F. Beiler
#34. In past wars only homes burnt, but this time
Don't be surprised if even loneliness ignites.
In past wars only bodys burnt, but this time
Don't be surprised if even shadows ignite.
Sahir Ludhianvi
#35. When crime drops dramatically in New York for no apparent reason, or when a movie made on a shoestring budget ends up making hundreds of millions of dollars - we're surprised. I'm saying, don't be surprised. This is the way social epidemics work.
Malcolm Gladwell
#36. I'll never get tired of looking at her. Or kissing her. Pussy whipped, thy name is Drew. Yeah I know. It's okay. I don't mind. 'Caue if this is the Dark Side? Sign me up. Seriously. Don't be surprised if I start skipping down the street singing, "Zip-a-Dee-fucking-Doo-Dah." I'm that happy.
Emma Chase
#37. Don't be surprised by smart people doing bad choices! Dumb spirits seek to reborn with a better brain.
Robin Sacredfire
#38. People are messy; therefore, relationships will be messy. Don't be surprised by messiness.
Timothy Keller
#39. If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do. Don't be surprised if you can't relate what you see to those four words.
Henry Mintzberg
#40. When he's connected up to your nervous system, you'll be able to make him whistle, hiss, roar, flap his wings, and spit sparks, though it may take a few days to assimilate him into your body picture. Don't be surprised if at first he just burps and looks seasick. Take your shirt off, please.
Samuel R. Delany
#41. When a child reaches puberty, parents become so curious about their sex lives and whereabouts, put them behind bars to their own detriment. When such a child breaks free, don't be surprised to see him/her in porn movies.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#42. Let God have you, and let God love you - and don't be surprised if your heart begins to hear music you've never heard and your feet learn to dance as never before.
Max Lucado
#43. God is preparing you for greater things. He's going to take you further than you thought possible, so don't be surprised when He asks you to think better of yourself and to act accordingly.
Joel Osteen
#44. If you are not taking the time to set your own goals, chances are pretty high someone else is doing it for you. So don't be surprised someday when you end up someplace you never hoped to be.
Mark W. Boyer
#45. If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition, they're suffering from childhood.
Ken Robinson
#46. It is exactly when others insist that it's a sign of being free, fresh, and radical to do what everybody's doing that you might want to take notice and think for yourself. Don't be surprised if this is really hard to do.
Jaron Lanier
#47. If you're too busy being angry at the world, don't be surprised when the world returns serve.
Tony Curl
#48. Don't be surprised that I value prejudice, observe certain conventions, seek power
it's because I know I live in an empty society.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#49. Someone said that our goals keep us going, but it's our dreams that make us tick. So if you disconnect your goals from your dreams, don't be surprised if one morning you realize that your life is on autopilot.
Ray N. Kuili
#50. Expect the unexpected. But don't be surprised when the unexpected is not what you expect.
Robert Mulkey
#51. When building monsters don't be surprised when they become monstrous.
Marlon James
#52. It used to seem to me that my life ran on too fast,
and I had to take it slowly just to make the good parts last
But when you're born to run it's so hard to just slow down,
so don't be surprised to see me back in that bright part of town
Warren Zevon
#53. If you behave in a manner that poisons your relationship, don't be surprised when it dies.
Steve Maraboli
#54. Don't be surprised by your greatness. Be surprised that no one expected it.
Rebecca Maizel
#55. One corner of his mouth twitched. "Should I consider that a warning?"
"Just don't be surprised if you find yourself riding a bolt of lightning if you piss me off."
"I'm into kinky shit, so that works.
Larissa Ione
#56. If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.
Wayne Dyer
#57. When you're blessed, the haters come out. When you wear God's blessings well, don't be surprised if it draws jealousy out on people.
Joel Osteen
#58. What happens in the past, is in the past. But don't be surprised if it comes back and haunts you.
Nicholas Sparks
#59. If you continue to hit your head against the wall, don't be surprised if your head hurts.
Charles F. Glassman
#60. You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything fat
Frederic Chopin
#61. Don't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport's green.
Seamus Heaney
#62. When animals behave like humans or when humans behave like animals, don't be surprised because in every animal there is a human and in every human there is an animal!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#63. Be thankful for the blessings already on their way. And don't be surprised if one of your blessings is to be the blessing for someone else.
Charles F. Glassman
#64. Don't instill, or allow anybody else to instill into the hearts of your girls the idea that marriage is the chief end of life. If you do, don't be surprised if they get engaged to the first empty, useless fool they come across.
William Booth
#65. Cord put his hat on and pulled it low, hiding his eyes. 'Grown man walks around with his eyes shut tight, he shouldn't be surprised if he bumps into something he didn't see. You aren't trying to convince anybody of anything they don't want to believe.
Ellen O'Connell
#66. I continue to be surprised by judgmental native stereotypes and apathy, but if I wasn't that would mean I'd become accustomed and tolerant. I don't want to stop being surprised. I just want them to stop.
Red Haircrow
#67. Mary, Mary don't say no, down the basement we shall go. Slap your ass against the wall, here i come balls and all. Won't your daddy be disgusted, when he sees your cherry busted. Won't your mama be surprised, when she sees your belly rise! Sound Off....(ect.)
U.S. Military
#68. It's a funny thing, one day you're living and the next day you're not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get trumped by the reaper every time. I don't even know if I would want a warning if it was my time. I think I'd rather be surprised.
Dan Groat
#69. They're always surprised with what I want to do and don't want to do. I think they're surprised I don't want to do robo-tech. I don't know, it's like they want me to have a long career. And be prolific and make big movies.
Cary Fukunaga
#70. I was surprised that President [Barak] Obama would be so bold to come here [UK] and tell people what to do.I think a lot of people don't like him and I think if he had not said it I think you're result might have been different.
Donald Trump
#71. We always seem to be a bit surprised that our children are reflecting stuff that we are showing them. I don't know about you, but every movie that I saw when I was a kid, I emulated. I was Haley Mills for an entire summer and had an English accent.
Cheryl Ladd
#72. I know what it's like to not fit in. Everyone thinks you're strange because you like to be alone, when really you just don't know how to say hello," Meryn whispered to the tiny creature. He looked up, surprised, and nodded.
Alanea Alder
#73. We ask why there's violence in our school but we've systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools have become such a place of carnage? Because we've made it a place where we don't want to talk about eternity, life, what responsibility means, accountability,
Mike Huckabee
#74. When I'm making a movie, I don't like to know what's going to happen next. I like to watch something and be surprised all the time, and just not know, and let it take me wherever.
Julian Schnabel
#75. All men are dogs, Nichelle, and if you don't feed your dog, you can't be surprised when he's in the neighbor's trash looking for food.
Norian F. Love
#76. If you know what you want, you use Google. But if you don't know what you want, and you want to be surprised and find something you didn't expect, we want you come to StumbleUpon. Really, that idea of being a discovery engine versus a search engine.
Garrett Camp
#77. When I read a book, I like to be surprised. I don't want to read the same genre formula that I've read a hundred times before.
Chet Williamson
#78. Don't wait for good things to happen. Do whatever you can, wherever, and however. You will be surprised when good things follow.
Sohail Mahmood
#79. When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that occurs in life should be omitted from art, though the artist should present it in a fashion that is artistic and not ugly. I set out to tell the truth. And sometimes the truth is shocking.
Tennessee Williams
#80. If you start a painting and you don't like where it's going, don't give up on it. Just keep going and follow through. You might be surprised how it ends up.
Andrew McDermott
#81. I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
Adam Driver
#82. And I think Alanna would quote Sean Connery from "The Untouchables" to you: "At the end of your shift, go home alive." She would say, Don't think about being brave or working hard
just do what you need to do. When you look back, you'll be surprised to see that this was exactly enough.
Tamora Pierce
#83. What surprised me most about fame is how unpleasant it can be. I used to think it was going to be so fun. I got excited about the parties. You don't anticipate friends being jealous of you and critics giving your music bad reviews. Media and rumors - that stuff hurts.
Eve
#84. It's hard to be surprised by a film. It's hard to be surprised by another actor or by a director when you've seen enough and been around. So when I am, or when I forget that I'm watching someone's movie, or when I don't know how someone made a certain turn that I didn't expect ... You know, I'm in.
Brad Pitt
#85. Do what you love; you'll be better at it. It sounds pretty simple, but you'd be surprised how many people don't get this one right away.
LL Cool J
#86. But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.
Anne Tyler
#87. Be less of a judge and you will be surprised that when you become a witness and you don't judge yourself, you stop judging others too. And that makes you more human, more compassionate, more understanding.
Osho
#88. I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.
Jodi Picoult
#89. People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#90. I want to be surprised by what people do, I don't want to work with people who need to be told what to do. I want people to show me what they've got.
Dave Holland
#92. I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there's some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the essence of drama.
Miranda Richardson
#93. Make an effort to exert yourself-everyday. Don't fail because you never allowed yourself to get started! Don't avoid success because you think the responsibility might be too much-just focus and get going! You'd be surprised at what intelligent effort can produce.
Donald Trump
#94. If we accept the Greek's definition of the idiot as an altogether private man, then we must conclude that many American citizens are now idiots. And I should not be surprised, although I don't know, if there were some such idiots even in Germany.
C. Wright Mills
#95. No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable.
Michael Scheuer
#96. Why do you sound surprised? I love America. Just because I think gay dudes should be allowed to adopt kids and we should all have hybrid cars doesn't mean I don't love America?
LIZ
#97. Obviously I believe in reincarnation and all that kind of stuff - I don't think anyone's going to be surprised to hear that.
Bob Weir
#98. Have a plan. Follow the plan, and you'll be surprised how successful you can be. Most people don't have a plan. That's why it's easy to beat most folks.
Bear Bryant
#99. Don't try to make yourself marketable, you'll be surprised to see yourself at the bottom. Stay incognito, and people will peruse the whole world looking for you, by that time, you'll be at the top.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#100. Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I'm never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it.
Gore Vidal
