Quotes About Surprises

There is a rule about surprises: Most of them are not good.

Her biggest fault - perplexing to this day - is that Mother loves to pick trash. Its an adventure, she says. You never know what surprises you'll find

There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surprises

People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.

She was never likely to say out loud, "I wish that I could marry a handsome prince," but knowing that if you did you'd probably open the door to find a stunned prince, a tied-up priest, and a Nac Mac Feegle grinning cheerfully and ready to act as best man definitely made you watch what you said.

I think life is what you live every day, and it just keeps coming at you. You never know what it's going to be.

Life's not linear at all. It happens in lighting flashes. So fast you don't see those lay-you-out cold moments coming at you until you're Wile E. Coyote, steamrolled flat as a pancake by the Road Runner, victim of your own elaborate schemes.

Life is like that, I suppose: always slapping you in the face when you least expect it.

There is kindness in so many unexpected places

On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen...

she doesn't want to become the kind of person who thinks that good news can only come from calls one was already expecting and callers one already knows

she doesn't want to become the kind of person who thinks that good news can only come from calls one was already expecting and callers one already knows.

Most of all I told this story because I wanted to say something about hope and the absence of it, and how we keep going anyway. About second chances, and how they're sometimes buried amid the dross, even when you're poised for the downhill grade. The narrative can always turn out to be a different story from what you expected.

we don't live in an ideal world. In our world, surprises sometimes happen, mistakes happen,

Ideally, a driver is a master of all that is around him, Denny says. Ideally, a driver controls the car so completely that he corrects a spin before it happens, he anticipates all possibilities. But we don't live in an ideal world. In our world, surprises sometimes happen, mistakes happen, incidents with other drivers happen, and a driver must react.

One of the surprises of the gospels is their account of the very unlikely people who were drawn to Jesus.

Life is a series of disappointments, but it's also full of surprises. You never know what's around the corner.

Eleven out of twelve work fine. I'd say that's better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try. He blinked and laughed softly. I never know what you'll say next. I don't either.

New York is a fascinating city. I think it's a very inspiring city, but it's overpowering when you get older. It tires me now. But it's wonderful for young people - very inspiring and full of surprises and full of ideas.

The future is always coming up with surprises for us, and the best way to insulate yourself from these surprises is to diversify.

I've always got a couple of tricks up my sleeve.

A truly great magazine cover surprises, even shocks, and connects in a nano-second.

Variety is the spice of life. We all want surprises.

I've done really well so far in my career by trusting the audience to be as dissatisfied with convention as I am, as a film-goer. You want to go see a film that surprises you in some way.