Surprise Events Quotes

#1. [Jesus Christ] is the Lord of history. Nothing is taking God by surprise. Events are moving rapidly toward some sort of climax ... when His Son, Jesus Christ, returns to be rightful Ruler of the world.

Billy Graham

#2. But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?

Jack Kerouac

#3. 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

#4. The possibility of somebody emerging as a nuclear power or events happening that surprise us on the nuclear age is still a possibility. It always will be because there's an awful lot going on behind the scenes. Our intelligence just has to get better on that score. Peter Goss

Joel C. Rosenberg

#5. When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.

Thomas Merton

#6. Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of selling out. Thus, even the languages of capitalism and art conflict: a firm that has 'sold out' has succeeded, but an artist that has 'sold out' has failed.

Alex Tabarrok

#7. For this is the only power I have, to bestow upon my father the mantle of greatness, a thing he sought in the wider world, but one that, in a surprise turn of events, was here at home all along. "Ah,

Daniel Wallace

#8. I still feel very much an imposter in the whole music scene, which I'm quite happy about to be honest.

Nick Cave

#9. Ideal conception, necessitated by ignorance of the person so imagined, often results in an incipient love, which otherwise would never have existed.

Thomas Hardy

#10. Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.

Paul Auster

#11. They may surprise you. Traumatic events change people. Makes them say and do unexpected things. So

Harper Bliss

#12. Sometimes you think you know more than you really do - people, events, things that are true and things that are not. Sometimes you think you know yourself. But then, surprise, it is someone else who shows you what is really there, like the truth a photograph shows.

Patricia MacLachlan

#13. The two of them swung by the pizza parlor in her minivan and picked up his favorite, pepperoni with extra cheese,

Melody Anne

#14. And every job that I had was a stepping stone to my next job and I never quit my job until I had my next job. And so opportunities look a lot like work.

Ashton Kutcher

#15. There are times in life to play it safe. I'm sure you can think of several. Music is not one of them.

Deke Sharon

#16. I'm having a ball. I just walk in, make some funnies and walk out, no pressure.

Neil Patrick Harris

#17. But when I look at this farm I keep thinking it's not whether I have the guts to go but if I have the guts to stay.

Steven Herrick

#18. None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

Vaclav Havel

#19. He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a living man. But he who knows that this was the condition laid down for him at the moment of his conception will live on those terms, and at the same time he will guarantee with a similar strength of mind that no events take him by surprise.

Seneca.

#20. In [man's] mouth is ever the bittersweet taste of life and death, unknown to the trees. Without respite he is dragged by the two wild horses, memory and hope; and he is tormented by a secret that he can never tell.

Hope Mirrlees

#21. The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.

Josephine Baker

#22. Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult.

Deborah Harkness

#23. Nothing can make you more humble than pain.

Larry Flynt

#24. We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will take, what a character will do or say to surprise us, how the events in the world will impact our story.

Barbara Kopple