Quotes About Surprises

You never know what kind of challenges are going to be thrown in your way or opportunities will arise.

Becoming a mom has really thrown me for a loop. I figured I had this job in the bag because I took care of my brother and my nephew. No way!

The history of football has always thrown up big surprises.

Life throws curveballs.

You couldn't predict what was going to happen for one simple reason: people.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.

Oh, Ashley, nothing has turned out as we expected! It never does, he said. Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.

Ordeals never turn out the way you expect them. Usually when the ones you are expecting finally arrive there is no question of decision at all, and the ordeals of decision turn up on quite other occasions.

You try to disaster-proof your life. But the thing that causes all the trouble is something you'd never even thought about.

To those familiar with the rhythm of living there are few surprises in this world.

The Great Depression, the 1973 oil crisis, the rapid inflation of the late '70s, the British sterling crisis of 1976, Black Monday in 1987, the dot-com bubble of 2000, the housing bust in 2008, the 28% drop in gold prices in 2013—all of these surprises caught most investments professionals way off guard.

Life, weddings, relationships, road trips, gardening, making out, haircuts: few of the fun things in life always go as expected.

Two parts, then, of the Plot — Reversal of the Situation and Recognition — turn upon surprises. A third part is the Scene of Suffering. The Scene of Suffering is a destructive or painful action, such as death on the stage, bodily agony, wounds and the like.

Think Snake Plissken. You know…Escape From New York? You do this job, and if you don't fuck it up, we let you live. (Joe) Yeah, I've seen that movie. At the end they try to kill him anyway. (Steele) Good, then you're already acquainted with our methods. Saves me a lot of training time and you a low of surprises. (Joe)

Jaim says that the essence of command is to turn surprises to your favor. You get your perimeter outside the enemy's perimeter, and attack." "What does that mean, exactly?" "Oh, I don't know, some kind of military jabber. I was hoping you knew.

Everyone of us who can look back over a longer or shorter life experience will probably say that he might have spared himself many disappointments and painful surprises if he had found the courage and decision to interpret as omens the little mistakes which he made in his intercourse with people, and to consider them as indications of the intentions which were still being kept secret. As

In their place the Americans arrived, and NASA decided to use the airfield as an emergency landing strip for the space shuttle, apparently paying something like £30 million per year in rent. Yusuf could see that I looked completely disbelieving. 'It's true!' he said with a smile. 'It was just in case the shuttle had trouble on re-entry and couldn't make it around the planet and back to the US. You see, we have more surprises to share with you, Simon.

One moment I would be collecting the mail or a bundle of designer clothes for a photoshoot from the courier drop-off point at 'Gate Six' at the far end of the Wapping plant, and the next I'd be asked to work on an investigation into drug smuggling or the IRA. With hindsight, it was absurd.

You never know how things are going to turn out, however much you plan. But you already know that." "I always thought my life would be a certain way," I say, gazing down at my plate.

But life takes sudden twists.

Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life.

The way I see it, life is a jelly doughnut. You don't really know what it's about until you bite into it. And then, just when you decided it's good, you drop a big glob of jelly on your best T-shirt.