Life Is A Surprise Quotes

#1. Life is a surprise waiting, every moment we are discovering that surprise.

Debasish Mridha

#2. Sometimes life can be unexpected. Sometimes things surprise you and all you can do is roll with the punches or let them beat you to a bloody pulp. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency

P.S. Martinez

#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. The commonplace needs no defence,Dullness is in the critic's eyes,Without a licence life evolvesFrom some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling elms,Behind these hedges trimly shorn,As in a stable once, so hereIt may be born, it may be born.

William Plomer

#5. Most research into life's murky origin has been carried out by chemists. They've tried a variety of approaches in their attempts to recreate the first steps on the road to life, but little progress has been made. Perhaps that is no surprise, given life's stupendous complexity.

Paul Davies

#6. Life is a house of cards, balanced on a tetter-totter,
precariously perched on a roller coaster.
The only thing that should surprise us about our surprises is that we are surprised by them.
Beth Cardall's Diary

Richard Paul Evans

#7. I DECLARE that God has a great plan for my life. He is directing my steps. And even though I may not always understand how, I know my situation is not a surprise to God. He will work out every detail to my advantage. In His perfect timing, everything will turn out right. This is my declaration.

Joel Osteen

#8. The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

Virginia Postrel

#9. Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Vladimir Nabokov

#10. When a volcano erupts, people get surprised, but it is a volcano! There is no 'place' for the surprise! The biggest problem with people is that they are not serious about the matters of life and death! Be serious or alternatively lose your existence!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. Would you like to know your future? If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator. So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence
a surprise.

Vera Nazarian

#12. Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

Jimmy Buffett

#13. Discovery is the chance they never had, to tell, on oath, how wickedness infects a life. One's only life. Beyond one's will, evil comes, looking for a surprise soft spot, a place to inject its poison.

Kaimana Wolff

#14. I think the desire for adventure and discovery is the essence by which our souls have been woven. It is as if we all might be browsers by nature, and we not even for a moment cease to surprise and wonder about the things around us.

Paola Sanjinez

#15. 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

#16. Don't simply dismiss a coincidence and let it drift away. Life is totally interconnected. These unusual 'things' are simply connections that surprise you because you aren't used to seeing life except in fragments. Now it is beginning to piece itself together.

Deepak Chopra

#17. That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.

Rabindranath Tagore

#18. What I like is a life that is full of surprises and [that has] no routine.

Carly Rae Jepsen

#19. When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!

Alexander Calder

#20. It used to surprise me, the intensity with which I still remembered these distant memories. But when I entered my fifties ... I understood their enduring clarity ... In the end, what adds up to a life is nothing more than the accumulation of small daily moments.

Alice Steinbach

#21. A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#22. to express our dream about life in words is not easy but to show it with an example will surprise a lot of people and give them a shock.

Jan Jansen

#23. Life is not a series of events charged with elements of contrast, contradiction, or surprise. It is a deep, coherent, and unfaltering process.

Percy C. Ainsworth

#24. Being born again from above is an enduring, perpetual, and eternal beginning. It provides a freshness all the time in thinking, talking, and living - a continual surprise of the life of God. Staleness is an indication that something in our lives is out of step with God.

Oswald Chambers

#25. Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop.

Mos Def

#26. Motherhood is the thing in a woman's life that catches her by total and complete surprise.

Melanie Shankle

#27. Spirituality is a mixed-up, topsy-turvy, helter-skelter godliness that turns our lives into an upside-down toboggan ride of unexpected turns, surprise bumps and bone shattering crashes ... a life ruined by a Jesus who loves us right into his arms.

Mike Yaconelli

#28. There's a version of the future in my head where I stay here forever....Bleak, I know. But, still, there's a lot of comfort that comes with knowing how your life is going to turn out. I've never had a surprise turn out in my favor.

Julie Murphy

#29. In life the only thing that you can expect is the unexpected; the only surprise is a day that has none.

Joan Rivers

#30. Everyone who makes a mistake knows in advance that he's going to make a mistake, he simply can't stop himself. The surprise is perhaps a reaction to the size of the mistake, not the fact of its existence.

Zeruya Shalev

#31. Do not plant a weed and pretend surprise when it grows to strangle your garden. For, I tell you that to hate is to kill for from hatred grows death as surely as life grows from love.

Michael Grant

#32. They say that our sense of smell is one of the strongest triggers of memories. Of course, our sense of smell is integral to our sense of taste, so it is no surprise, then, that in a life full of moving and traveling, food has always been a source of familiar comfort for me.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#33. Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

Jessamyn West

#34. What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.

Aldo Rossi

#35. That's the shock, and the surprise, to a lot of repatriates: No one back home cares. There's an initial, shallow interest in what life is like abroad, but most Americans aren't actually interested, at all.

Janice Y.K. Lee

#36. Each one seems to be, in some way, essentially different from the others, and each is a surprise to me. I think that making books, or any kind of art, might also be like mining. The artist digs into his or her life and imagination and never knows what they'll find. That's the adventure.

Mordicai Gerstein

#37. Prayer adds an element of surprise to your life that is more fun than a surprise party or surprise gift or surprise romance. In fact, prayer turns life into a party, into a gift, into a romance.

Mark Batterson

#38. The biggest surprise in a man's life is old age.

Ben Kingsley

#39. Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.

Rob Sheffield

#40. Life is a series of surprises.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#41. As mentioned earlier, the primary way to create and sustain excitement in a sexual relationship is through honesty. It provides a sense of newness and surprise that can't be matched by any of the standard gimmicks for improving a couple's sex life. NOT

Peggy Vaughan

#42. This is supposed to be a surprise - a huge, life-changing surprise that could make or break our future. Or my kneecaps if George decides he really does hate me.

Tara Sivec

#43. This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder

Jodi Picoult

#44. You need to wake yourself up and take a grab at life. No one is going to hand it to you.

Danielle Steel