Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. – Jane Austen
Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody. – Irwin Shaw
There are always some surprises in the draw when people are playing pretty well. – Caroline Wozniacki
Nixon was always willing to be bipartisan, so there are a lot of surprises in the man. – Douglas Brinkley
When the narrator says, ‘This is a story without surprises,’ most of the time, this is not what happens. – Ethan Canin
I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics. – Chris Patten
Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets. – Pieter Zeeman
It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner. – Vernon A. Walters
Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer’s hand. – Steven Amsterdam
