Quotes About Surprises

The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.

Everyone loves New York City for all these different reasons. The culture. The mix of people. The pace. The food. But for me, it's like one epic Easter egg hunt. You're always finding these little surprises around every corner.

William untucked the covers and stood, making a mental list of everything he'd need for the coming trip. A few blades, serrated and nonserrated. A vial of acid. A bone saw. A spiked paddle. A cat-o'-nine-tails. And a bag of Gummy Bears. Gods, but this was going to be fun.

The loathing of mankind is a force that surprises and overwhelms one, fed by hundreds of springs concealed his subconsciousness. One only detects its presence after having long entertained it unawares.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

Life is full of surprises," he said. "Try to cope with grace.

My life was a circus. A circus full of thieves, and stupid shapeshifters, and small children executing evasive maneuvers.

Sometimes the Universe smiled. Mostly she kicked me in the face, stomped on my ribs once I fell down, and laughed at my pain, but once in a while she smiled. It was Wednesday.

AND SINCE we're talking about nostalgia, I beg you to have a little patience with what follows because I can't separate the subject of Chile from my own life. My past is composed of passions, surprises, successes, and losses: it isn't easy to relate in two or three sentences.

John Lennon said that life is what happens when we are busy making other plans.

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

I'm beginning to realize that things don't turn out the way you want them to. And sometimes, when they don't they can turn out just a little bit better.

Sometimes the story takes you to places that you want to go and sometimes it takes you places you don't want to go.

All those Disney films have you believe that one day you'll meet your Prince Charming. What they don't tell you is he comes in a psychotic package without warning labels. He

Life is full of surprises, so you may as well get used to it.

We should always prepare for the tests that we know about. After all, there are so many that surprise us.

No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.

The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history

If the past, by bringing surprises, did not resemble the past previous to it (what I call the past's past), then why should our future resemble our current past?

in the long term, social and economic evolution nastily takes place by surprises, discontinuities, and jumps.

Most of us lead or are led by lives of patterned regularity. Diurnally, surprises are relatively few. And except for economic or physical uncertainties, we neither face nor court significant degrees of risk because a fundamental drive in the vast majority of us is toward the attainment of as much security as is possible. In this sense, jazzmen, of all musicians, are our surrogates for the unpredictable, our paladins of constant change.

Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path—all they do is trip you up.