Surprise

"Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law."

"How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life."

"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."

"Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy if possible."

"Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not."

"The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds."

"The secret to humor is surprise."

"Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between."

"It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection."

"We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive."