Quotes About Surprising

The history of the Christian movement is nothing if not the history of Christians struggling to be faithful to God's Spirit as that Spirit is made manifest in new and surprising ways in new and surprising contexts.

Thee notion that we live in a quiet, ordinary suburb of the galaxy was simple and comforting. But boy, we were wrong.

As constatações mais banais são sempre as mais surpreendentes

There's nothing surprising about me. I'm dull. I am a fan of the New York subway. I love it.

I love Broadway. And, I listen to country music, which I think a lot of people find surprising.

This simple accident of falling in love is as beneficial as it is astonishing.

mirabile dictu

Bigfoot was interviewed on The Patty Winters Show this morning and to my shock I found him surprisingly articulate and charming.

Predictions of surprising events always prove more accurate if not set down on paper beforehand.

Knowledge comes as it will. Life's lessons come at the most surprising times.

Often there is no more than a little plaque to reveal that, against all gynaecological probability, someone very famous was born halfway up a wall.

That the government had not thought to use the census as an opportunity to encourage a more fluid notion of identity was not surprising. That the UN did not consider this at all was inexcusable.

I think people are surprised that I'm not - I think people come up to talk to me, and they think I'm going to be really morose. And I am, but I do that by myself - no one wants to see that. It's not really a phoniness; I just kind of keep it to myself. So I think people are surprised when they come up to talk to me and I hug them.

My first kiss was actually in a graveyard.

It's not only ghosts who haunt us. Our memories follow us through life, surprising us now and again when we are forced to turn around and look behind us.

That's why children can surprise you. They never fill out the proper forms.

I think I could write another book as surprising as this one, or even as weird as this one; but it would no longer surprise people that I can be surprising. My audience would no longer find it weird to discover that I can be weird.

For not only do fabulous rumors naturally grow out of the very body of all surprising terrible events,—as the smitten tree gives birth to its fungi; but, in maritime life, far more than in that of terra firma, wild rumors abound, wherever there is any adequate reality for them to cling to.

I mean, nobody tells you sex is going to be so _noisy_, do they? ...

In the light of our inclination to see land as a commodity, it is not surprising that many of us fail to have a robust theology of the land.

No one's been in the kitchen since he left it. On the table are his cup, Theo's empty water bottle and, beside it, the remote control. It's stil faintly surprising, this fidelity of objects, sometimes reassuring, sometimes sinister.

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

Trump's behavior is deeply disturbing but hardly surprising. His mercurial nature is not the product of a post-inaugural adder sting at Mar-a-Lago. It's been there all along. And the American electorate chose him nonetheless.

Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful.