Quotes About Surprises

You make certain assumptions as a parent. And you kind of think, at a certain point, you've figured things out. And then all of a sudden, that person that you raised and nurtured and thought that you knew is someone else completely.

You will experience the immense pleasure of reading this book for the first time, and will pass through its innumerable surprises as if in a new dream.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

Love is like wildflowers; it's often found in the most unlikely places.

One of the reasons that most literary artists are contemptuous of Sigmund Freud—whose thought Vladimir Nabokov once characterized as no more than private parts covered up by Greek myths—is that his extreme determinism is felt to be immensely untrue to the rich complexity of life, with its twists and turns and manifold surprises.

Did you know Nellie could fly a plane? Amy shook her head. I guess it never came up. Lots of things don't come up with Nellie. Until they do.

Relationship with God is not immune to the surprises and costs of our daily life.

Adventures are funny things. They always begin with the unexpected, but they always end wit the promise of adventures yet to comestoriai

Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.

I've been on so many blind dates I should get a free dog.

Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.

You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior

You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behaviours than from hearing surprising facts from the behaviour of others

Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.

action would take place. Something buzzed past his head and Roscoe smiled. The camera drone hovered just ahead of him, floating backward so that it could keep its lens focused on his face. Roscoe ignored it, keeping his eyes moving as he looked ahead for any surprises that might be waiting for him. The camera drone rose up above and then moved away, and Roscoe continued his

keeping his eyes moving as he looked ahead for any surprises that might be waiting for him. The camera drone rose up above and then moved away, and Roscoe continued his purposeful walk. He reached the center after a few minutes and looked around, but he was alone. That was normal, he knew; the other person within the fenced arena would be doing his best to stay out of sight until the last possible moment. That was completely understandable, Roscoe felt. After all, there weren't very

Control, apparently, is not the answer. People who need certainty in their lives are less likely to make art that is risky, subversive, complicated, iffy, suggestive or spontaneous. What's really needed is nothing more than a broad sense of what you are looking for, some strategy for how to find it, and an overriding willingess to embrace mistakes and surprises along the way.

There's always hope. Always. You just never know what life—or death—might bring. I think we've all seen that the world is a little more complicated than we ever could have imagined.

Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises..:

But it is always God who takes the initiative and who surprises us with his presence, as God did with Mary. When

It does all swing around strangely sometimes, doesn't it?" he said. I was silent, not knowing what to say. "I mean only—" rubbing his eye—"I only understand it, as I get older. How funny time is. How many tricks and surprises." The word trick was all I heard, or understood.

It now transpired that the man in front of her didn't actually have a ticket at all, and the argument then began to range freely and angrily over such topics as the physical appearance of the airline check-in girl, her qualities as a person, theories about her ancestors, speculations as to what surprises the future might have in store for her and the airline for which she worked, and finally lit by chance on the happy subject of the man's credit card. He didn't have one.

In an English village, you turn over a stone and have no idea what will crawl out. Miss Marple

Ah, but people don't run true to form in love affairs.