Quotes About Unexpected

Then there was a fight between our oxen-drivers, one of them attempting to stab the other with a knife, and Robert rushing in between till Peni and I were nearly frantic with fright. No harm happened, however, except that Robert had his trousers torn. And we escaped afterwards certain banditti, who stopped a carriage only the day before on the very road we travelled, and robbed it of sixty-two scudi.

Three explosions in three days, and not even one of them had been Closs's idea.

Rilriltok had apparently not expected to report to work and discover an enormous natural enemy next to its desk.

It was a smooth voice, androgynous, and cultured, unexpected.

Everything this woman says surprises me.

England. When she entered her self-imposed exile in the colonies, she'd never expected to see it again. Now, she wondered if she was seeing it for the last time. An unexpected gift, perhaps. Or an unlooked-for cruelty.

I'm not usually stunned speechless. Call it a character flaw.

Why in God's name did the idiot have to drop dead when all was going so well? I could almost think he has done it to spite me.

We are to make a plan for the day, pray over that plan, and then proceed with that plan. When we are willing to regard the unexpected as God's intervention, we can flex with the new plan, recognizing it as God's plan.

Charity knew there was nothing more coarse and common than an afternoon in bed with a total stranger -- but the lad installing the telephone had a grin that made her heart turn flips.

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

A bright yellow frog smoking a cigarette through a holder.

The corners of his lips picked up. "You really didn't know I've been following you for the last five weeks?" Yeah, please feel free to make me feel stupid for that, Ken doll. I shook my head. "Well, of course not, because if you knew someone was watching you, you probably wouldn't have given yourself a spanking on the roof." And just like that, the man turned the humour back on. Weird. - Chapter 3: Heather and Brendan

it was an unspeakably awful thing. And I had not known. This is the way of life: the many things we do not know until it is too late.

Mussolini would be a powerful example of how the events of 1917 shaped the future—and of the unexpected product of a failed and increasingly bankrupt Wilsonism.

I had to cast out a good many lines, though, before I got what I wanted, and when I landed the fish I did not for a moment suppose it was my fish. But I listened to what I was told out of a constitutional liking for useless information, and I found myself in possession of a very curious story, though, as I imagined, not the story I was looking for.

History is full of surprises.

Døra ble åpnet av en kvinne med unnselig utseende, og hun så litt forbauset ut da hun fikk se sin mann og en fremmed stå der med armene fulle av duftende planter. – Helvi, disse plantene tilhører denne mannen, og vi skal ha dem i klesskapet inntil han trenger dem.

Korporal Jääskeläinen ble enda mer perpleks da det ikke var søvnige rekrutter som kom krypende ut av teltet, men en illsint offiser i bakrus. Urho ble redd, det var faktisk en ekte oberst som fylte døråpningen, i full uniform med skulderklaffer og det hele, og med tre gylne roser på kragespeilet. Urho Jääskeläinen stilte seg instinktivt i stram givakt: – Oberst! Korporal Jääskeläinen, tolv kyr, tretten mann alle!

Más vale un por si acaso —argumentó el mayor— que un quién lo iba a decir.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

Just recently I was in Target with my mom shopping, and out of the blue, I see this father and his two daughters and he says, 'Can they get a picture with you?' And I'm thinking to myself, 'Am I the one millionth customer or something?'

While driving I had an accident with a magician. It wasn't my fault, the guy came out of nowhere.

When he woke up, the dinosaur was still there.