Quotes About Surprise

Prayer if it is real is an acknowledgment of our finitude, our need, our openness to be changed, our readiness to be surprised, yes, astonished by the "beams of love."

Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.

We may surprised at whom God sends to answer our prayers.

How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.

Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face. A gauntlet with a gift in't.

My girlfriend told me that she was seeing another man. I told her to rub her eyes.

Give people more than they expect, and do it cheerfully.

Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.

OK cosmos, I could use some good news. Go on, surprise me.

Good Christ almighty!

Wars have an unpleasant habit of evolving in ways that none of the participants anticipated. When, in the summer of 1914, Europe resounded with cries of "A Berlin!" or "Nach Paris!", no one imagined the Somme, or Verdun, or the starvation blockade of Germany that killed 750,000 civilians.

Stalking skills. Good stalking skills are essential in order to surprise and ambush enemy forces. Poor stalking skills expose a light infantry force to detection, which often means defeat and destruction.

What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no significant off-site release. Only to find out moments later that, in fact, there had been an off-site release. I still haven't gotten over that.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!

Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.

He's sudden if a thing comes in his head.

But my favorite selfie was when a monkey threw poo at Fred.

Strange the world about me lies, Never yet familiar grown- Still disturbs me with surprise, Haunts me like a face half known. In this house with starry dome, Floored with gemlike plains and seas, Shall I never feel at home, Never wholly be at ease? On from room to room I stray, Yet my Host can ne'er espy, And I know not to this day Whether guest or captive I. So, between the starry dome And the floor of plains and seas, I have never felt at home, Never wholly been at ease.

Surprised by joy—impatient as the wind.

Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.

HAD no idea what was in store for me. To begin with, everything was too perfect

The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.