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Quotes about Surprise

Life is what comes along after you have planned something else.
- Joyce Meyer
The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.
- Billy Graham
I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me.
- Stanley Hauerwas
Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.
- Stephen Colbert
Life is...the moments that take your breath away.
- Will Smith
Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.
- Richard Paul Evans
And all because the lady loves Milk Tray.
- Anonymous
Many matters the gods bring to surprising ends. The things we thought would happen do not happen; The unexpected God makes possible; And such is the conclusion of this story.
- Euripides
Then the door opened and she came into the room - and it was as though everything in it suddenly blurred before his eyes. He had not remembered how beautiful she was, and he felt his face grow pale and his voice diminish to a poor sigh in his throat.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Everyone was surprised then that our music got such a foothold because they said 'You're so fresh-faced and wholesome.'
- Judith Durham
Just as God always knew how the life of his Son would unfold on earth, God knows how our lives will unfold as well. Nothing is a surprise to him. When we stumble, however badly, he stretches out his hands, pulls us to our feet, and draws us into his embrace.
- Liz Curtis Higgs
What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.
- Rick Warren