Quotes About Surprise

not true—it's not, gasped Rilla. The thing would be—ridiculous, said Gertrude Oliver—and then she laughed horribly. Susan

It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em

I'm never tired of finding out what a moonrise can be over them rocks and sea and harbor. There's a surprise in it every time.

Bayan Lynde geçen gün dünyan?n pek de matah bir yer olmad???n? söylüyordu. Ne zaman güzel bir ÅŸeyin olmas?n? dört gözle beklesen er ya da geç mutlaka haya k?r?kl??? yaÅŸars?n diyordu. Belki doÄŸrudur ama bunun iyi bir taraf? da var. Kötü ÅŸeyler de her zaman beklediÄŸin kadar kötü olmaz. Hemen hemen her seferinde çok daha iyi sonuçlan?r.

The thought of her mother's expression made Valancy laugh – for she had a sense of humour nobody in her clan suspected.

Well, let us hope for the best, as Susan says; things are really going well now and if Rumania lines up, the end may come with a suddenness that will surprise us all." Rumania did come in — and Susan remarked approvingly that its king and queen were the finest looking royal couple she had seen pictures of.

Mrs Lynde was complaining the other day that it wasn't much of a world. She said whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed… that nothing ever came up to your expectations. Well, perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either… they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

The universe had an odd sense of fairness; it took away things one did not want to give up, and then gave things one did not ask for.

And life (or God) seems to reply, "Get ready! The other shoe is going to drop. When? I want to surprise you.

nos importa más la curación de nuestros sufrimientos que el perdón de nuestros pecados; consideramos que la bondad de Dios se da por sentado y no nos maravillamos de la sorpresa de la gracia; pensamos que su objetivo es ayudarnos en el presente más que desarrollar en nosotros una mayor humildad.

Holy shit, somebody muttered in the dark. A virgin, sputtered another. I didn't know they still made them. He just did.

Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked.

I just got gang-egged, or egg-banged or something. --Sheriff Toots Burns.

We might all get killed this afternoon, for all I know. That's the wild for you - it's got its dangers, which is part of the beauty.

It struck her that endings were never as you would expect them to be.

Trees had been so common that it was a shock to ride out on the plains and discover that there was a part of earth where there weren't any.

I've heard of you, McCrae. But I didn't know you was so old." "Oh, I wasn't till lately," Augustus said.

I didn't know people had that much blood in them," Gus said. "I thought we was mostly bone inside." Call didn't admit it, but he had the same belief; but from what he had seen that morning, it seemed that people were really just sacks of blood with legs and arms stuck on them.

He was sure now. Teela Brown had never been hurt; had never learned caution; did not understand fear. Her first pain would come as a horrifying surprise. It might destroy her entirely. The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools. She'd be hurt over Louis Wu's dead body.

Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know until it is happening.

Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know it until it is happening.

Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know it until it is happening.

Never, never, never could one conceive what love is beforehand, never. —D. H. Lawrence, after meeting his future wife

Hear what?" "Ric's at the hospital. Mia's having the baby." "What? He didn't call me!" "He didn't call anyone. The man ran out of here like his hair was on fire.