Quotes About Surprises

So entangled are we in our own designs that the concurrent and often conflicting plots of our families, friends, and enemies may come to us as surprises suddenly unraveled or traps suddenly sprung... If no one can see into another's heart, it is probably because no one comes close enough, or stays long enough, or listens loud enough over the thump of their own, to see and hear.

He's never fired a gun in his life," Palamedes said. "He abhors weapons." As Palamedes spoke,the group could see Shakespeare put the tonbogiri to his shoulder,then jerk three times. Two of the attacking vimanas spun out of control,both of them crashing into two more. The flour flaming craft spiraled into the sea. "But then he's always been full of surprises," Palamedes added.

We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.

Things happen in production—bad things that you can't always predict. One

Empezaba a darse cuenta de que la vida es pródiga en hechos que antes de acontecer parecen inverosímiles y luego, cuando sobrevienen, se percata uno de que no tienen nada de inextricables ni de sorprendentes.

I once asked her, after reading a Dixie cup riddle, "What's worse than finding a worm in an apple?" The cup's answer was "Finding half a worm in an apple." My grandma Rosie's answer? "Having someone shove an umbrella up your tuchis . . . and then open it.

Life reveals itself in ways you cannot control or predict, so allow yourself to mourn that plans are not going according to schedule, but don't let it stop you from moving. Life has surprises in store for you if you just keep walking.

Soulmates" is what you aim for, but soup snakes is what you get sometimes.

Había una vez un tal Jiang Zhiya, que atravesaba una racha de mala suerte. Si estaba vendiendo harina, soplaba un vendaval; si lo que vendía era carbón, el invierno venía suave; si alzaba la cabeza para lanzar sus lamentos al cielo, le caía en plena boca una cagada de pájaro.

There is no room to feel pain after you have become wise. No more surprises compared to the ignorant. Self-mastery is the first chapter of achieving wisdom.

Life is full of surprises, embrace them and learn from them. They will make you stronger.

There is a great mystery here, and all our speaking about God's eventual future must make room for it. This is not at all to cast doubt on the reality of final judgment for those who have resolutely worshipped and served the idols that dehumanize us and deface God's world. It is to say that God is always the God of surprises.

Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts in one night through the cat door, the telephone call out of a friend's silence of years, the sudden greeting from the girl-child---we constantly make of ourselves our selves.

Today you will say things you can predict and other things you could never imagine this minute. Don't reject them, let them come through when they're ready, don't think you can plan it al out. This day will never, no matter how long you live, happen again. It is exquisitely singular. It will never again be exactly repeated.

LIFE IS NOT ORDERLY. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.

Quando ci si smarrisce, i progetti lasciano il posto alle sorprese, ed è allora, ma solamente allora, che il viaggio comincia.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

It is nature also who orders us to obey the gifts she has given us. Mine have led me to dreams; I submitted to the torments of imagination and the surprises she gave me under my pencil; but I directed and led those surprises in accordance with the laws of the organism of art which I know, which I feel, with the single goal of producing in the spectator, by sudden attraction, the whole evocation, and the whole enticement of the uncertain within the confines of thought.

During the first year of their married life, there were surprises for him, gentle shocks almost every day, but nothing shattering. For instance, he was amazed to discover how little education a girl can absorb, and go through a high school and two years of normal school besides. Why, Stella didn't know Thackeray from George Eliot!

Never live for those exceptional moments—they are surprises. God will give us His touches of inspiration only when He sees that we are not in danger of being led away by them. We must never consider our moments of inspiration as the standard way of life—our work is our standard.

As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.

Hap sighed. If he could change one thing about Umber-besides his constant need for the thrill of exploration-it would be his obsession with secrets and surprises.

you were thirty, you were a failure," she told the audience. "And now a lot of young women think that if they aren't seriously successful before thirty, they're a failure. So I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after thirty—and forty, and fifty, and sixty, and seventy-seven! Believe me, life is one long surprise. And you can't plan it, but you can prepare.

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