Quotes About Unexpected

In the time she had been with him, she had never before heard him snore. "You're faking," she said. "No. I'm really fast asleep," came his voice from under the cowl.

then my mother barges into me like an angry bull when I think I'm safe home.

Zo, kijk nou eens wat de kat me komt brengen,' zei hij opgewekt. 'Hoe kom jij in 's hemelsnaam hier terecht, Halt?' 'Wij zijn gekomen om je te bevrijden,' antwoordde de oude Jager. De oberjarl keek vragend naar de leren riemen waarmee zijn vrienden waren vastgebonden. 'Nou, je hebt daarvoor een vreemde tactiek verzonnen dan.

Maddie mompelde een niet erg damesachtige verwensing. 'Zo, dat verwacht je niet te horen uit de mond van een prinses,' merkte Will op. 'Waar heb je die uitdrukking in 's hemelsnaam geleerd?' 'Van mijn moeder,' antwoordde ze kortaf. Will knikte. 'Aha, natuurlijk. Vandaar.

So, not expecting to see anyone, he failed to do so.

Good boy,' she said and swung herself easily up and into the saddle. And all hell broke loose. Bumper seemed to spring off the ground from all four feet, arching his back and throwing her off balance. Then he came down with a teeth-jarring crash and promptly put his head down, exploding his rump up into the air.

Heer Roderick?... Hij zei dat ik je een boodschap moest brengen.' Halt schudde verbijsterd zijn hoofd. 'En die boodschap luidde?' Hij zag dat Arnaut ongemakkelijk in het zadel heen en weer schoof voor hij antwoord gaf. 'Hij zei: Veel geluk dan maar. En hij zei dat ik je moest zeggen dat ik met zijn zegen kwam - onofficieel natuurlijk.

It's surprising how often history is decided by something as trival as bad shellfish.

That would explain the pigs I saw flying over frozen Hell this morning,

No one is more surprised than I that I turned out to be who I am.

Nunca hay que anticiparse al resultado, porque entonces no verán el verdadero significado de lo que ocurre y no podrán percibir la emoción de lo inesperado. Antes había

No lo ví venir. Un momento antes: todo, ya sabes: Londres.

And Matt started crying?

Assuming stability is one of the ways ruins get made. Resilience accommodates the unexpected.

The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.

When a small, unassuming object exceeds our expectations, we are not only surprised but pleased. Our usual reaction is something like, "That little thing did all that?" Simplicity is about the unexpected pleasure derived from what is likely to be insignificant and would otherwise go unnoticed. The smaller the object, the more forgiving we can be when it misbehaves.

And suddenly they came out of the woodwork. I don't actually know what that expression means. What come out of the wood work? Cockroaches maybe. Mice? Are these rhetorical questions, like I just learned about on one of my rare visits to school? Was that a rhetorical question? Is it a paradox when you ask rhetorically if a rhetorical question is a rhetorical question? I think I'd better stop before I get a headache.

A beggar who goes fishing may use a worm which has feasted on a king as his bait. And the fisherman may eat the fish caught with that bait. What does this tells us? Well, it tells us that a king may progress through the guts of a pauper.

I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces, And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust, too.

It seemed very remarkable that you could travel halfway around the world and still end up looking at some ducks.

So all she can hope for are unexpected moments of grace.

Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.

It's always that way with periods of crisis: people you expect and want to be there for you are incapable and/or unwilling, and others you never imagined would be there for you show up with exactly what you need, exactly how you need it. And there is almost no way, alas, no way at all, to predict which people will be which. Got

I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.