Quotes About Unexpected

He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.

it has been well said that it is precisely these moments when we are feeling that ours is the world and everything that's in it that Fate selects for sneaking up on us with the rock in the stocking.

you ever have that feeling when you step down onto a footstep that isn't there?

Mere surprise, however, was never enough to prevent Psmith talking.

i gave a start as if goosed from behind

I call it rotten work, springing unexpected offspring on a fellow at the eleventh hour like this.

If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean. At any moment you may be strolling peacefully along, and all the time Life's waiting around the corner to fetch you one.

And then, just when I was beginning to think I might safely pop down in that direction and gather up the dropped threads, so to speak, time, instead of working the healing wheeze, went and pulled the most awful bone and put the lid on it.

You know, Bayliss, said Jimmy thoughtfully, rolling over on the couch, life is peculiar, not to say odd. You never know what is waiting for you round the corner. You start the day with the fairest prospects, and before nightfall everything is as rocky and ding-basted as stig tossed full of doodlegammon.

There was something about this girl that made the most bizarre happenings seem right and natural. Ever since he had met her his life had changed from an orderly succession of uninteresting days to a strange carnival of the unexpected, and use was accustoming him to it.

I felt as if I had stepped on the place where the last stair ought to have been, but wasn't.

hoping that this was some jolly practical joke and that the real chap would shortly jump out from behind a chair and say "Boo!

All things come to him who waits, and among them is that unpleasant sensation of a cold hand upon the portion of the body which lies behind the third waistcoat button.

You're sitting in the old arm-chair, thinking of this and that, and then suddenly you look up, and there he is. He moves from point to point with as little uproar as a jelly fish.

It is possible, too, that, being there, you decided that you might as well go the whole hog and be manicured at the same time. It is not unlikely, moreover, that when you had got over the first shock of finding your hands so unexpectedly large and red, you felt disposed to chat with the young lady who looked after that branch of the business.

I turned the dial back to sixteen, lifted the handle, and jerked the locker door open. Wendy let out an "Oh" and reached for the roses. Then she spun around and planted a kiss on me—right there in front of Jerry Bridges and Mr. Crowell and everybody. "Crimeny," Jerry said, and walked off. Mr. Crowell grinned and looked away. I just stood there with a stupid smile on my face, too far gone even to say, "Happy Valentine's Day.

Oh, McBride, it's just you." Nate heard Julian say. "I saw a flash of white and thought you were the bride.

The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly.

To have attracted readers is the most magical part of my writing life. I was not expecting you to show up when I wrote my first books. It took me by surprise. It filled me with gratitude. It still does.

And I have begun thinking of that life as miraculous and lucky. How could a man I had dreaded as my commandant and who tried twice to get me kicked out of college become the subject of the first book I would write? [...] Who could have foreseen the day I would deliver his eulogy at the Summerall Chapel, or that I would give a speech on the night they named the dining room in the new Alumni Hall after him? Not me. Not once. Not ever.

She pulled a half pint of Jack Daniel's out of her purse and poured me a shot in a small paper cup she took from the water cooler. "Dr. Jack always makes house calls and the boy cures what ails you.

Peace, tremulous, unexpected, sent a taproot out of nowhere into Morgan's heart.

Angel discovered an open suitcase and clothes tossed

Something always turned up. That was Tom's philosophy.