Quotes About Surprises

Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest. Don't try and press it down. Don't hide from it. Don't escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That's the way life goes.

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

These new recruits found that life at the Firs was never dull. Bombs exploded unexpectedly, sheds caught fire and, on one memorable occasion, an entire corner of the building 'containing some lethal liquid' blew up in a spectacular explosion. It was hastily repaired, before the owner of the property, Major Abrahams, got to hear about it.

I live in New York, and I love New York as well, but I think Los Angeles is a place where if you have the right person with you, there are all these little worlds that you would never guess by just looking at the exterior of what the city is.

Businesses have come and gone at Homeboy Industries. We have had starts and stops, but anything worth doing is worth failing at. We started Homeboy Plumbing. That didn't go so well. Who knew? People didn't want gang members in their homes. I just didn't see that coming.

I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.

to shelve this book. But before you do that, hear me out. If you promise to read this book, I'll promise to make it an adventure. In fact, to keep it fun, I've stuffed it full of cartoons, clever ideas, great quotes, and incredible stories about real teens from all over the world … along with a few other surprises.

Like agreeing to learn the doggy paddle and being shoved off the high-dive board. And to keep things interesting, somebody told Bobby, Kevin's youngest nephew, the baby could hear stuff, and he was determined to make his new cousin his BFF in utero. It was a bit disconcerting having a kid randomly tell bad jokes to her stomach. Like now. "Why did the weasel cross the road?" he yelled at her belly button. "To prove it wasn't a chicken!

Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball.

We naively repeat the words "for better or for worse" and then are shocked when the first hint of "worse" rears its ugly head.

Well, that's the lesson, I suppose," Zoe said. "We can never predict who will love us or where we'll feel love in return.

Life is funny...we never know what's in store for us and time brings on what is meant to be.

As you ripen, you'll notice that time is the weirdest thing in the world, that these surprises are relentless, and that getting older is not a stroll but an ambush.

It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that I hope to inspire with this book.

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

I thought I'd had a pretty hard life. But I keep finding out that life can be hard in ways I never knew about.

life is a wild, impetuous ride. There could be good shit up ahead, don't rule it out.

life is a wild, impetuous ride. There could be good shit up ahead, don't rule it out.

I had come to the canyon with expectations. I wanted to see snowy egrets flying against the black schist at dusk; I saw blue-winged teal against the green waters at dawn. I had wanted to hear thunder rolling in the thousand-foot depths; I heard the guttural caw of four ravens…what any of us had come to see or do fell away. We found ourselves at each turn with what we had not imagined.

I think you're where you have to be and I'm not a person who wants to control things too much because I love surprises.

I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.

Love, like destiny, loves surprises.

Love comes in all shapes, sizes, sabores y formas, y a veces hasta con un saborcito extra que no te esperas.

El amor es un terremoto seguido da un tsunami. El temblor te lo cambia todo, te lo altera todo, lo remueve y lo agita todo. Pero es el tsunami posterior el que inunda el corazón de luces y sorpresas.