Surprise is the enemy of prudence.
If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page.
Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you.
I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.
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.
It's hard to be shocking now. It's hard to challenge people because the Internet has allowed everyone to become much more worldly, much more visual. It's very hard to surprise people.
Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.
It will happen when you're not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise.
Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.
Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.
There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.
I'm just not built for fairytale surprises.
Surrender is a state of living in the flow, trusting what is, and being open to serendipity and surprises.
My biggest surprise is probably the level of involvement of all the artists [in Valerian] who participated at every level.
I may … surprise you - but I shall not deceive you.
If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people
The longer you work in this business [movie], the more you start to be able to see the carpentry. You can see where things are going, and it's harder to surprise you, as a reader
I have been in Washington for a while now, and most things don't surprise me. The fact that twenty 6-year-olds were gunned down in the most violent fashion possible and this town couldn't do anything about it was stunning to me.