Top 1200 Pleasant Surprises Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

It's not been a pleasant life.

It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.

America .. the international Jekyll and Hyde ... the land of a thousand disguises, sneaks up on you but rarely surprises

The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.

It surprises me every day that this (Eddie Haskell) character is still so popular. I don't completely understand it but it's nice.

I'm actually a bit of a technophobe, which surprises people. I like to stay unplugged as much as possible.

We can know a lot. And still, no doubt, there are rash and wonderful ideas brewing somewhere; there are many surprises yet to come.

The reach of 'Hamilton' never surprises me. It's always a delight to meet someone who's seen the show.

Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.

Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting f***ed.

It would be pleasant to be drunk.

Quotologists encounter happy surprises, bright books by faded authors, treasures hidden under dust.

I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.

If India breaks your heart with untold inequalities, it also surprises you with the unheralded achievements of its most humble citizens.

Some days you think nothing surprises you anymore and other times I'm thinking I can't believe this journey and how it went down.

We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises.

First of all, there is absolutely an order that we have put together to create the maximum number of surprises, but that's just part of our storytelling.

To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly.

To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

Conclusions are not always pleasant.

A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.

No Time For Goodbye is a deliciously smart thriller, full of surprises and perfect pacing. I'm jealous I didn't write it.

Every now and then, a presidential candidate surprises us with a truly human and honest moment.

We all know that I am not a big fan of surprises, and for whatever reason my life seems to be full of them.

If you put the time in and you do your work and you eliminate the surprises, then you give yourself the best shot.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Neither loss of father, nor loss of mother, dear as she was to Mr Thornton, could have poisoned the remembrance of the weeks, the days, the hours, when a walk of two miles, every step of which was pleasant, as it brought him nearer and nearer to her, took him to her sweet presence - every step of which was rich, as each recurring moment that bore him away from her made him recal some fresh grace in her demeanour, or pleasant pungency in her character.

Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay pipe in mouth, sat on some pleasant summer evening before his door, and reflected in all his comfort, that it would be right pleasant, if, with unextinguishable pipe, and endless breath, he could thus vegetate onwards for a blessed eternity? Or was it a lover, who in the arms of his loved one, thought the immortality-thought, and that because he could think and feel naught beside!—Love! Immortality!

Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

Probably if you look like Tyra Banks, it probably is hard, even if you are really smart, for people to take - it surprises some.

In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises.

I don't really like surprises. Not big ones anyway. Just having a pack of Revels holds enough of a surprise for me.

Korean audiences are amazing. The fans scream so loud, and that really surprises skaters when they first perform in my shows.

Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?

A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple.

It won't be pleasant." "Nothing ever is.

How pleasant it is to have money.

I can't imagine that, now that we have another way to look at the universe, that there isn't going to be some enormous surprises. Things that have nothing to do with what we already know.

There is no time like the pleasant.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly. Whenever any one of these is lacking, when, for instance, the man is not able to live wisely, though he lives honorably and justly, it is impossible for him to live a pleasant life.

It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

It is pleasant that there will be no religions in heaven.

Nothing really surprises me anymore. You put yourself out there - you're open and honest with what you have to deal with.

Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises.

Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then.

There are so many surprises in my life; I don't take anything for granted. I enjoy every experience that comes; I don't think too far ahead.

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

It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.

One needs to fully accept that surprises sometimes happen and complete control over outcome is not necessary or even desirable.

It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that I hope to inspire with this book.

What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.

What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being.

I have the belief that all the qualified teams can create surprises at the World Cup and not just the traditional top favourites.

At the top level you know most things about the best clubs, there aren't too many surprises.

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.

Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.

As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.