Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
Jean de La Fontaine

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
Adolf Hitler

Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.
Arielle Dombasle

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph Addison

Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony.
Frank Leslie

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Alice Walker

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.
Pierre Schaeffer

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.
Jeffery Deaver

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.
Sherilyn Fenn

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.
Roger Mudd

Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.
Mason Cooley

I didn't picture myself as a movie actress. I began to think about it around college. I remember thinking, "Well somebody has to be in them," so maybe I could do that eventually. It's all been a surprise.
Annette Bening

I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course.
Ruth Warrick

I do not personally agree with some of the positions that Mr. Gonzales has advocated, but that should come as no surprise, because I do not agree with many of the proposals made by the man who nominated him, President Bush.
Daniel Inouye

I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.
Dick Cavett

I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
Sam Mendes

I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?
Andy Rooney

I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.
Heywood Broun

I find out more about Jack every week. Essentially, I'm the same character, but I'm having more fun this season because I'm doing more aliases, you know. I like the surprise of not knowing.
Victor Garber