Quotes About Pleasant Surprises

#1. [A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

Rex Stout

#2. Today is a special day for you and for the universe. Today you started your life's journey and the universe got a precious gift and that is you. I am wishing you a day of joy to fill your life with pleasant surprises.

Debasish Mridha

#3. Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises.

Gary Hopkins

#4. We've a saying that you should always expect pleasant surprises. The unpleasant surprises will come anyway.

Petra Durst-Benning

#5. When you fill others lives with love and happiness,
your life will be full with pleasant surprises.

Debasish Mridha

#6. One of the biggest and most pleasant surprises is that, even when you have that need to keep up an appearance of being right or knowing, there is life after admitting you don't know and that's beautiful.

Ben Lee

#7. I really didn't have any bad hitchhiking experiences. The only bad experiences were standing by the road for 10 hours. I never thought I'd get a ride with a ministers wife or a coalminer or a Republican elected official. It was all pleasant surprises. The only drag was the waiting.

John Waters

#8. Unexpected and pleasant surprises occur every day...random kindnesses from a stranger; would-be tragic accidents narrowly avoided; sicknesses healed.... We will notice if we look. We will see good sprinkled liberally over every day if we are open.

Steve Goodier

#9. I always love to be careful with my expectations so that life has pleasant surprises for me.

Sebastian Thrun

#10. Pessimists have only pleasant surprises.

Nero Wolfe

#11. What's the matter, don't you like surprises?"
"I like them if they're pleasant ones, and when they happen suddenly," Holly said. "But not when I have to ponder them for an hour and forty-five minutes.

Stuart Woods

#12. According to Aristotle, envy is pain for the presence of good things in others, whereas emulation is pain for their absence in us. This is a subtle but critical difference. Unlike envy, which is self-defeating, emulation is a good thing because it makes us take steps towards securing good things.

Neel Burton

#13. Everything about her, the way she walked, the way she stood, her eyes and mouth and whole face, seemed to be saying, without trying or intending to, that if you happened to be hers, and she yours, life would be full of pleasant and interesting surprises.

Rex Stout

#14. You get nervous when you're identified with something that is really great and positive for so long. You don't want to not be that person, but there are going to be other roles in your career.

Melissa Peterman

#15. MARRIAGE. The final frontier. Steven went first. He was kind of our test subject. Like those monkeys that NASA sent off into space in the fifties, knowing they'd never make it back alive.

Emma Chase

#16. More than a pleasant surprise, Danny Schmidt was no less than a revelation to me. And that's not a word I use lightly.

Keith Morris

#17. The miser is counting his gold pieces, unaware of Death, who holds two clear symbols: an hourglass and a pitchfork."
"Why a pitchfork and not a scythe?"
"Because Death reaps but the Devil harvests

Arturo Perez-Reverte

#18. Always plan for the worst, child, that way all your surprises are pleasant ones.

Robert Jordan

#19. Tony Orlando is one of the nicest guys I have ever met - bar none - in my entire life. I was always a fan when I was a kid - you know, huge fan. Who wasn't a fan of Tony Orlando?

Larry The Cable Guy

#20. When we dare to doubt what we are told and take a fresh look at what's going on, we are in for lots of pleasant and fascinating and useful surprises. A new and more satisfying way of life begins to open up, just by noticing what we see.

Douglas Harding

#21. There were advantages to being a dead man.

Susan Dennard

#22. 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

#23. The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it in the shades of privacy.

Samuel Johnson

#24. So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the opposite, hiding everything interesting about herself behind a prim, plain facade.
What other surprises was she concealing?

Tessa Dare

#25. Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

Barbara Tuchman

#26. Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

Horace Bushnell

#27. If you plan for the worst, all surprises are pleasant.

Robert Jordan

#28. Angels live no place, as God lives no place. They live in the space of eternity, in the center of our hearts, and sometimes I think we each serve as the channels and angels of God, touched by wings of silence, pushed to angelic acts ...

Sophy Burnham

#29. A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#30. I'm not afraid of being dead, that's to say there's nothing to be afraid of. I won't know I'm dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I'm alive in any way at all, that'll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises.

Christopher Hitchens

#31. Our Higher Self is the most intimate thing we could possibly know; eternity is the most comfortable home we could possibly fine.

Deepak Chopra

#32. Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.

Marcus Aurelius