Quotes About Surprise

When you no longer surprise anyone, you give others the impression that they have found you out. Turn the tables: be deliberately unpredictable.

If you never expect gratitude from a friend, you will be pleasantly surprised when they do prove grateful.

Daily Law: Contemplate any feelings of uncertainty and even discomfort and hold fast to them. Amid such uncertainty your dormant sense of wonder will begin to stir, and things will start to appear novel and surprising as they did when you were very young.

Cicero's first law of rhetoric, that a speech must always contain at least one surprise.

you know if you look close at the black of a tiger's whisker, it turns out it isn't black at all, but a swirl of violet and deep blue and kelp green.

Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.

How do you fight someone smarter than yourself? Rand whispered. The anser is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can.

Both of them? Mat spluttered. Light! Two! Oh, burn me! He's the luckiest man in the world or the biggest fool since creation!

He doesn't know what to make of me, Mat said softly. How very uncommon. I can't think of anyone else who has reacted that way to you, Mat.

Why, that's like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne

Why didn't you guess this would happen? Elayne demanded. He looked at her, expressionless. One side of his mouth twitched up, then he pulled his hat down, shading his eyepatch. Light, Elayne said. You knew. You spent this whole week planning with us, and you knew the entire time you'd throw it out with the dishwater.

As she spoke, the dice started tumbling inside his head.

A woman would do a thing until you were sure she always would, then do something else just to fuddle you.

Death came for every man eventually, and seldom where or when he expected.

When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, it is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough.

I've been thinking." Her eyebrows rose, but he was used to surprise whenever he claimed an idea. Even when his ideas were as good as theirs, they always remembered how deliberate he was in thinking of them.

Most libraries held treasures even the librarians did not suspect.

Verin gave herself a shake and looked at him. "Does it surprise you that your life might go differently if you made different choices, or different things happened to you? Though I never thought I—Well. The important thing is, we are here. Though not as we hoped.

Sometimes, Gareth Bryne had told her when she was a child, you find yourself outnumbered, with no path to slip away. Always do what your enemy least expects, Elayne. In that case, you must attack.

Who'd have thought an Aiel could bloody read?

She could still hear Siuan going on about what she called the Law of Unintended Consequences, stronger than any written law. Whether or not what you do has the effect you want, it will have three at least you never expected, and one of those usually unpleasant.

Comadrin wrote, 'Attack on ground where your enemy believes you will not, from an unexpected direction at an unexpected time. Defend where your enemy believes you are not, and when he believes you will run. Surprise is the key to victory, and speed is the key to surprise. For the soldier, speed is life.

There's always something new from you,' Perrin growled. 'Can't you tell us what to expect once in a while, instead of explaining after it happens?

Mat's other blade stabbed into his chest, he squealed, eyes