Quotes About Surprises

You never know what's coming round the corner. There's only one thing coming round the corner - more corners.

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

You know, Bayliss, said Jimmy thoughtfully, rolling over on the couch, life is peculiar, not to say odd. You never know what is waiting for you round the corner. You start the day with the fairest prospects, and before nightfall everything is as rocky and ding-basted as stig tossed full of doodlegammon.

It was foolish of her to have expected such a state of things to last, for what is life but a series of sharp corners, round each of which Fate lies in wait for us

The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly.

As your priest," says de Soya, "I will warn you again about the use of profanity. As your commanding officer, I order you to come up with as many surprises as you can to kill that spiked son of a bitch." They

una vida tan variada como pocas se verán en el mundo; que comenzó locamente y concluyó mucho mejor de lo que jamás hubiese esperado.

You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.

I cannot stop loving you every day, you never stop spoiling me with surprises. I am very happy to be with you, every day I love you more and it seems like yesterday that we got married.

The process of love sometimes means unexpected detours.

Change always comes bearing gifts.

That's the game of baseball - amazing things happen.

I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were. Now I began to see that I wasn't apt to make it. This disappointed me, for I really wanted to read them all. But it consoled me in a way too; I could see that if I got them all read and had no more surprises in that line, I would have been sorry.

Often I have not known where I was going until I was already there. I have had my share of desires and goals, but my life has come to me or I have gone to it mainly by way of mistakes and surprises. Often I have received better than I have deserved. Often my fairest hopes have rested on bad mistakes. I am an ignorant pilgrim, crossing a dark valley. And yet for a long time, looking back, I have been unable to shake off the feeling that I have been led—make of that what you will.

They write for people who read with the surface of their minds, people with reading habits that make the smallest demands on them, people brought up reading for facts, who know what's going to come next and want to know what's coming next, and get angry at surprises.

Life is full of surprises and exciting moments and sometimes we simply overlook them. We are so busy doing things.

I have learned that when you make big decisions, life says, 'Fuck you. This is what you actually have in store.

Life, at best, is completely unpredictable.

She has a soft spot for houses that look sensible until you get inside.

We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure--full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.