Quotes About Surprises

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

No Time For Goodbye is a deliciously smart thriller, full of surprises and perfect pacing. I'm jealous I didn't write it.

One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace

Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.

History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

We take you at your word: you are like us; now that we've 'let you in,' we expect that in your gratitude you won't pull any surprises and start behaving like some subspecies that you've assured us you're not; if we now say it's OK to be gay, we don't expect you to pull the rug out from under us and start acting queer .

Life is full of whimsical happenings, Watson

Nothing surprises me now, I tell him. I am stoic. I am Joan of Arc, with liver damage and an unused penis.

You never know where the trapdoors are in your life, do you?

It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.

He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes.

He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep

In this world No phenomenon is strange.It surprises us because of our lack of knowledge about it." - Jahanshah Safari

Life is a bag full of uncertainties for everyone.

Life always has some surprises up its sleeve!

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Marveling at the 180 degree swings of life in general.

Loved reading Me Before You and The Girl You Left Behind. Both stories kept me very involved with sometimes twists and turns that I did not expect!

my marriage proved to be somewhat more populated than I had anticipated

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.

I'm not really silly enough to think that chocolate solves anything. But it calms me. It's a soothing assurance, that this hectic life I have worked myself into is also full of wonderful surprises and unexpected sweetness. It reminds me that a hefty percentage of my "problems" don't really need to be solved at all, just outlasted.

La vida está llena de sorpresas y de protozoos del paludismo.

But wether I am faking on a player piano, or striking the chords with the power of my own mind and hands, the song of my life is equally suspenseful and full of surprises as it rolls off the pulsating sounding board of destiny - a barcarole that either way will leave, I hope, happy echoes behind

If a queen started kitting every time some cat upset them, there'd be a lot of unexpected deliveries