Quotes About Surprise

I came ready to fight Genghis Khan and I walk in on a shut-in playing the biggest Dungeons and Dragons game in history.

Historians can set up all the conceptual walls they want, but they should not be surprised when medieval people pass through them freely, like ghosts. Nonetheless,

I realized love won't obey our expectations, it's mystery is pure and absolute.

A buckled car protruded from the window of one of the upper classrooms.

Yes, she's fine. She's rereading one of your books. There's not many authors she likes, so if there's nothing new, she just rereads yours. The funny thing is, she forgets how they end, so she enjoys it just as much as the first time. I swear the woman could plan her own surprise party.

I have found that the most significant experiences of our lives rarely come when we're expecting them and oftentimes when we're not even paying attention.

There's no way they'll find us now," Ostin said. Just then my phone rang. Everyone turned to look at me as I answered. "Hello." "Get ready, Michael," the voice said. "The Elgen are here.

Humans waste far too much time worrying about things that will never befall them. It's my experience that the greatest tragedies are the ones that don't even cross our minds—the events that blindside us on a Friday afternoon when we're wondering how to spend our weekend.

When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my life writing I've discovered that there are times when a story, like architecture, is carefully designed, erected, and furnished. Then there are tales that take their own way, and I find myself being dragged along after them like a white-knuckled water skier behind a speedboat.

should not surprise us that, at the end of a journey, our destination looks different than we imagined at the beginning. Everything looks different up close.

It's amazing to me to see how so unexpectedly life can switch tracks to a new destination.

I felt a hand on my shoulder. I turned to see Father Veronica, not looking at me but gazing at the monitor with fear and wonder. "Bartolomeo

To his surprise, she leaned over and kissed him on the forehead, a kiss so full of affection that it dispelled the awkwardness, even as it caused Miles' heart to plummet, because all kisses are calibrated, and this one revealed the great chasm between affection and love.

I'll let you sweat a while. You ain't gonna know when it's comin' or from where. You'll just be walking along or riding somewhere—and bing—that's it.

You had expected something else, anything else

Consider the hairpin turn. It is waiting for you like a red door

Oh my God," he said. "Oh my God." "You'll see him soon," Parker said.

Mother of God!" "That was my thought, or the Presbyterian equivalent thereof.

Watson Doesn't Know It Won on "Jeopardy!

If we just paid closer attention to the details of our daily lives, nothing that happens to us would surprise us.

Wow." I hadn't thought Dimitri could be any cooler, but I was wrong. "You beat up your dad. I mean, that's really horrible...what happened. But, wow. You really are a god." He blinked. "What?" "Uh, nothing.

And than suddenly he was there, charging down the hallway like death in a cowboy duster.

Adrian, I'm on a date. Why are you here? On my car?

I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...] Instead he kissed me.