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Quotes About Surprise

Oh, a grenade. But where is the bamboo bazooka?
~ Cristin Harber, Winters Heat
You're not what I expected in a pirate."He laughed, curtly. "You're not what I expected in a princess.
~ Brynn Kelly, Deception Island
Never in her wildest dreams would she have pegged this man as a dirty talker. Just went to show that you should never underestimate the quiet ones - and never let your guard down around them either.
~ Elle Kennedy, Midnight Games
Lucy woke with the munchies the night the kidnappers came for her.
~ Pamela Burford, Snatched
Whenever I'm sad I just imagine if babies were born with mustaches.
~ Liam Payne
i smile. things taken for granted have a way of catching you offguard when you least expect it, and then you're taken by what the portuguese calls saudade, a sense of longing for something, someone not there anymore.
~ Yeow Kai Chai
And how I flattered myself From time to time with proving to myself Nothing in you could be unknown to me. You don't belong to the mind's calculations, And you disproved each of my demonstrations, Since to be unexpected is your truth.
~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Omul e ca un roman: pân? la ultima pagin? nu È™tii cum se va termina. Altfel nici n-ar merita s? citeÈ™ti...
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
A human being is like a novel: until the last page you don't know how it will end. Or it wouldn't be worth reading.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
A person is like a novel: Up to the very last page you don't know how it's going to end. Otherwise, there'd be no point in reading.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
A person is a novel: you don't know how it will end until the very last page. Otherwise, it wouldn't be worth reading to the very end.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Man is like a novel: up to the last page one does not know what the end will be. It would not be worth reading otherwise
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
If you want to give God a good laugh, tell Him your plans.
~ Yiddish Proverb
sometimes Moran wondered if her chief merit was her willingness to serve as a human receptacle for details. Sympathy and admiration and surprise she dutifully yet insufficiently expressed, and afterward the others moved on, forgetting her face the moment she was out of sight, or else they would not have seen her in the first place: she was one of those strangers people needed once in a while to make their lives less empty.
~ Yiyun Li
It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.
~ Yogi Berra
The arrival of the unforeseen reveals the depths of one's heart.
~ young wm paul iv
Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.
~ Yukihiro Matsumoto
The principle of least surprise is not for you only. The principle of least surprise means principle of least my surprise.
~ Yukihiro Matsumoto
I come out on the stage expecting the audience to weep, and instead they burst out laughing.
~ Yukio Mishima
It...It...It's... The peeping tom!!
~ Yukiru Sugisaki
There was nothing special about humans. Nobody, least of all humans themselves, had any inkling that their descendants would one day walk on the moon, split the atom, fathom the genetic code and write history books.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
It is an iron rule of history that what looks inevitable in hindsight was far from obvious at the time. Today
~ Yuval Noah Harari