Giving Surprise Quotes

#1. The Lord is always there waiting to give us his love: it is an amazing thing, one which never ceases to surprise us!

Pope Francis

#2. Social media provides us the opportunity to think before we 'speak', giving us a better shot at reasoned dialog. So it's not a huge surprise to me that not only can real communication happen, but real relationships can blossom.

Paul Biedermann

#3. Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future.

E. Stanley Jones

#4. Give young people a chance, our generation may just surprise you.

Marc Kielburger

#5. Dance with me?" "There's no music," I tease. He pulls me into his arms. "There doesn't have to be.

Jillian Dodd

#6. That's the fine balance of a fiction writer ... to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.

Alan Lightman

#7. Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if it surprises us, it means we've been denying it for some time and have a lot of beliefs based on falsehood. It's hard to give up those beliefs.

Orson Scott Card

#8. Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.

Jean De La Bruyere

#9. I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.

Jean M. Auel

#10. Give your employees a mission that matches their ambitions. When you challenge people, they surprise you.

Richard Branson

#11. The good thing about being stuck at the airport for an extra hour, is that it gives you a chance to give weary travelers surprise massages.

Eugene Mirman

#12. This I consider to be one of the essences of life. It never warns us if something bad is going to happen and it never spoils the surprise by giving a hint about the happy moments that we are going to come across soon.

Sreehari

#13. Why are we inspired by another person's courage? Maybe because it gives us the sweet and genuine surprise of discovering some trace, at least, of the same courage in ourselves.

Laurence Shames

#14. With a DVD, you want something you can own, you can watch, you can come to grips with and you can explore. It's something larger than the film, when it's going out to a fan base.

David Slade

#15. giving children something with which to surprise their parents is one of the greatest gifts a teacher can bestow.

Richard Dawkins

#16. When a wound is dirty, you have to clean it,
before it becomes more rotten.
P.C.M. Hermans
September 16, 2016
Babaji

Petra Hermans

#17. At once I understood how very different the lives of the victorious were from the lives of the conquered.

Danielle Trussoni

#18. In dealing with Islamic countries, insist on reciprocation or no deal. If they want to build a mosque or Islamic school in our country, we should be able to build a church and a Christian school in theirs

Brigitte Gabriel

#19. Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.

Tennessee Williams

#20. Obstacles are only in your view when you don't have a clear enough focus on your goal.

Mark Victor Hansen

#21. I feel like movies should stick to a genre and give the audience what they want, and then surprise them with the unexpected, and not just do the same thing you've always seen.

Paula Patton

#22. Some people are so talented and yet they don't even know it. There are so many different aspects to sport and how you can get involved. You might surprise yourself with what you can achieve, so give it go and see what you can do!

Jazmin Carlin

#23. To pile Pelion upon Olympus.
[Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]

Horace

#24. How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.

Yuval Noah Harari

#25. There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.

Charles Baudelaire

#26. We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.

Buffalo Bill

#27. When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.

Will Rogers

#28. He gave her a goofy grin. "Not everyone can be hip to the lingo. Don't be a hater, Blair.

Denise Grover Swank

#29. When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope.

Matthew Bourne

#30. A warrior of light knows that in the silence of his heart he will hear an order that will guide him.

Paulo Coelho

#31. Someday, as an exercise, you might ask a writer to give himself the questions he wants to answer. If you really want a writer's opinions, you have to ask for them. What you read might surprise you.

John Fante

#32. I never promise a woman anything nor let her know what I'm going to give her. That's the only way to manage them. Always keep them guessing. If you cant think of any other way to surprise them, give them a bust in the jaw.

William Faulkner

#33. His eyes twinkled, and Scarlet - to her own surprise - started to blush again. "You two are giving me a stomachache," Thorne griped.

Marissa Meyer

#34. Have confidence in the young people, give them a chance, and they will surprise you.

Kofi Annan

#35. The old woman was interested only in giving, and if anyone tried to surprise her with something, she never smiled, she flew into a rage.

Magda Szabo