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Quotes About Surprises

He had to take his life as he had had to take it for the last five years: to have no expectations as to what each day would bring. In fact, to expect nothing. To grab joy if he could. To hold fast. To try never to be surprised.
~ Jenny Colgan
It's odd,' she murmured, 'but as long as we don't forget that we're falling and falling, nothing is lost. Life seems to love paradoxes - when we think we're perfectly safe, we're always ridiculous and on the verge of a tumble; but when we know we're lost, life showers gifts on us. Then we don't have to do a thing - it runs after us like a poodle.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Postoji jedna tajna koja se ne zna unapred: uvek se dobija više nego što se daje - ali kad bi se to znalo unapred, ne bi se dobilo ništa.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
history is a lively abode, full of surprises.
~ Erik Larson
If some of what follows challenges what you have come to believe about Churchill and this era, may I just say that history is a lively abode, full of surprises.
~ Erik Larson
Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises.
~ Erma Bombeck
As the adage says: "If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.
~ Esther Perel
train of surprises
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
I never dreamed I would do Westerns.
~ Eli Wallach
Anything can happen in pro wrestling.
~ Drew McIntyre
He rolled with the unexpected—and much was unexpected on Seeker trips—because he believed in "No matter what.
~ Robert Kurson
The tapestry that science weaves in describing the evolution of our universe is richer and far more fascinating than any revelatory images or imaginative stories that humans have concocted. Nature comes up with surprises that far exceed those that the human imagination can generate.
~ Lawrence M. Krauss
Nothing ever works like you predict it. All plans fall apart as soon as the first shot is fired.
~ Lee Child
Life is endlessly capable of surprises, so he knew one day he would come face to face with his physical equal. With somebody who might worry him. But he looked and saw this wasn't the day. So he just smiled and looked away again.
~ Lee Child
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
She took his finger and placed a small kiss on the end of it. "You're just full of surprises, Taggart." She saw him give her a very pleased male smile. "Stick around, Darlin', there's more to me than meets your eyes." "Should I be afraid?
~ Lindsay McKenna
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
~ Deepak Chopra
Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises.
~ Gary Hopkins
The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.
~ Roger Bannister
But I begin to wonder if he also doesn't have a demented sense of humor, and thinks it's fun to throw wild shit our way.
~ Douglas E. Richards
A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!
~ Douglas Jerrold
Today is gone. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. Every day, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.
~ Dr. Seuss
Reality had a habit of pulling coincidences no one would accept in fiction
~ Drew Hayes
Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?
~ Cathleen Schine