Quotes About Surprises

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

One of my earliest surprises in Algiers was that in the Casbah, where the highly emotive Battle of Algiers had been waged against Massu's paras, there is not the smallest plaque or commemoration to indicate where such heroes of the Revolution as Ali la Pointe fought and died; and often it is hard to find residents who can guide or inform you, even though little more than a decade has elapsed.

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

La vida es lo que ocurre mientras tú estás ocupado haciendo otros planes.

La vida es eso que sucede mientras haces planes.

London is like no other city I know in its ability to become beautiful. You can suddenly turn a corner and there are odd moments - of light, of weather.

Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.

I never thought I would be married at 23, but that's the fun thing about life - you don't know what is waiting for you at the next corner.

Faith in God is the gift that takes us beyond our limited self, with all its incessant demands. It opens us to a life that stretches us, enlightens us, and often springs surprises upon us. Such faith, like love, sees that which is invisible and lives by it.

The general strategy was to be conservative when estimating when a book would be shipped, so that surprises would be positive—shipped sooner than the customer expected—rather than negative.

Life is a house of cards, balanced on a tetter-totter, precariously perched on a roller coaster. The only thing that should surprise us about our surprises is that we are surprised by them. Beth Cardall's Diary

Even I make mistakes." I put on my brash, overconfident face. "I know it's hard to believe—kind of surprises me myself—but I guess it has to happen. It's probably some kind of karmic way to balance out the universe. Otherwise, it wouldn't be fair to have one person so full of awesomeness.

He'd written me up a proposal of why dating him was a sound decision. It had included things like "I'll give up cigarettes unless I really, really need one" and "I'll unleash romantic surprises every week, such as: an impromptu picnic, roses, or a trip to Paris—but not actually any of those things because now they're not surprises.

Hago esto todo el tiempo. Es un hechizo sencillo. Sin sorpresas. -Tal vez- dije renuente-. Pero cada vez que usas el espíritu, es más probable que te vuelvas loco. -Ya estoy loco por ti, Sage.

When I met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always

There are far worse things to drop on people than Crayolas.

The obvious never moves markets; surprises almost always do.

A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought in making you.

La verità è che, malgrado le difficoltà insormontabili, tutti noi aspettiamo sempre che ci succeda qualcosa di straordinario.

Männer sind nicht kompliziert, sagte er und trommelte mit den Fingern auf seinen Mahagoni-Schreibtisch . Die Genitalien eines Mannes sind wie sein Verstand: simpel, sehr wenige Überraschungen. Aber die Damen sind da schon anders ... nun, der liebe Gott hat sich eben Gedanken gemacht, als er Sie und Ihre Geschlechtsgenossinen erschuf.

I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.

Things so seldom go exactly the way we plan.

You should enjoy the little detours to the fullest. Because that's where you'll find the things more important than what you want.

When the nuclear age erupted in the 1940s, many forecasts were made about the future nuclear world of the year 2000. When sputnik and Apollo 11 fired the imagination of the world, everyone began predicting that by the end of the century, people would be living in space colonies on Mars and Pluto. Few of these forecasts came true. On the other hand, nobody foresaw the Internet.