Quotes About Surprise

The challenge for all of us in this day and age is to distinguish between the merely surprising and the truly amazing.

One always expects something else.

What's the matter with you anyway? Riesenfeld shouts You look like a moon-struck kangaroo!

Sasprindzin?jums bija izzudis, un vi?š jut?s k? cilv?ks, kurš pavisam nejauši uzdrošin?jies uzk?pt uz pl?na ledus un sev par lielu p?rsteigumu redz, ka tas nel?st. Vi?š zina, ka tas ir pl?ns un ka ilgi varb?t neiztur?s, bet pašlaik tas tur, un ar to pietiek.

Fue entonces cuando la terrorífica verdad empezó a imponèrseme -¡Jenny, estamos legalmente casados! -Si, ahora ya puedo comportarme como una perra

Even now certain of its formations were being moved off to the west, where the French and British, much to our surprise, had looked idly on as their Polish ally was being annihilated.

Burnham and Root became rich men. Not Pullman rich, not rich enough to be counted among the first rank of society alongside Potter Palmer and Philip Armour, or to have their wives' gowns described in the city's newspapers, but rich beyond anything either man had expected, enough so that each year Burnham bought a barrel of fine Madeira and aged it by shipping it twice around the world on slow freighters.

A Bridgeport, Connecticut, man presented his girlfriend with an engagement ring and handed her one end of a ribbon; the other end disappeared into his pocket. "A surprise," he said, and urged her to pull it. She obliged. The ribbon was attached to the trigger of a revolver. The man died instantly.

A Bridgeport, Connecticut, man presented his girlfriend with an engagement ring and handed her one end of a ribbon; the other end disappeared into his pocket. "A surprise," he said, and urged her to pull it. She obliged. The ribbon was attached to the trigger of a revolver. The man died instantly. And

Margaret and James Shineman, newlyweds from Oil City, Wyoming, who suddenly found themselves aboard the fastest, most luxurious ship in service, for their journey to Scotland to visit Margaret's family. The visit was to be a surprise. Both were killed.

Clemmie dropped on him like a jaguar out of a tree.

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting. J. M. Barrie "Dedication" Peter Pan 1904

It is not given to human beings—happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable—to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.

Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit... Suzanne

Twenty-five? Shawn squawked, horrified. Good Lord, he's a fetus!

I'm sure once he recovers from the muscle tone and tattoos he'll be fine.' Good thing he didn't know about the penis piercing. That would give him a heart attack. Or the fact that I had seen the penis piercing.

Wow. Getting sassy, aren't you? I am, aren't I? I asked in amazement. I didn't know I knew how to do that.

He did get a lot of pictures like that. Or ones where women were mostly naked, but looked surprised by the fact.

Bet you've never had a bear down your pants before. Though I'm kind of a bear in bed. (Rick from Back to Basics)

he was at only twenty-eight, witnessing their most uptight female friend asking to see their junk at four in the afternoon. She rolled her eyes at

hit her where she least expects to be hit. There's only one way to fight, and that's to win. Never attack where the other man is expecting it, when the other man is expecting it. That's where he's prepared his strongest defense.

The deuce, it is!" Mason ejaculated.

When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.

When it's right you can't remember. Every time you read it again it comes as a great and unbelievable surprise. You can't believe you did it. When it's once right you never can do it again. You only do it once for each thing. And you're only allowed so many in your life.