Quotes About Surprise

I like to see you in the morning all new and strange.

In the snowstorm you came close to wild animals and they were not afraid. They travelled across country not knowing where they were and the deer stood sometimes in the lee of the cabin. In a snowstorm you rode up to a moose and he mistook your horse for another moose and trotted forward to meet you. In a snowstorm it always seemed, for a time, as though there were no enemies.

Es mejor que la suerte te sorprenda cuando estás preparado.

It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight.

invite you to think about ways you might introduce risk to safety, mystery to the familiar, and novelty to the enduring.

Passion is unpredictable; it doesn't follow the dictates of cause and effect. What works on Monday might not work on Thursday. The solution is often a surprise, not the result of the kind of work you've been doing until now.

It was in a place where the days would go by and surprise anyone that they were over.

When he got to his own house, William Wallace saw to his surprise that it had not rained at all. But there, curved over the roof, was something he had never seen before as long as he could remember, a rainbow at night. In the light of the moon, which had risen again, it looked small and of gauzy material, like a lady's summer dress, a faint veil through which the stars showed. (A Wide Net)

Here at his own home, inside his own front door, there was nobody who seemed to be taken by surprise at what had happened to Judge McKelva. Laurel seemed to remember that Presbyterians were good at this.

Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out! he exclaimed. The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise.

The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise.

Oh, by the way, Chuck, I spilled tea on your bongos.

Sometimes serendipity must be seduced.

usually define fear as the thing I feel when the unexpected happens. Anxiety is when I'm doing something that I already know is stupid.

Put a wildlife camera in your campsite overnight and you'll be surprised and possibly frightened by the amount of nature that comes strolling and slithering through.

Unlike what happened after Pearl Harbor, however, the Bush administration would not order a "review of how they could have been so badly surprised" because the results would have shown "a colossal bureaucratic failure, combined with inattention and a lack of political will at the top.

And this is the only really startling thing about the evil of the world: not that so much of it exists, but that nobody ever really expects it.

As the Potsdam Conference opened, Truman was able to tell Stalin officially about the existence of the Bomb. Stalin showed the requisite amount of surprise, not revealing that his spies had kept him fully informed and that he was already trying to build his own.

You are not supposed to be here." Mizuchi turned her head from side to side, searching.

I grinned in spite of the awfulness of being touched without warning.

He was notably taller than last time. Meaning, of course, that he was back to being human height. I admit to having been slightly disappointed. The tiny Vanniv was adorable.

There is no fencing term I'm aware of for drawing a pistol and shooting your opponent in the face, but that was what it felt like when I heard his final words. I'd

Everyone loves a good iceberg, and this one is a corker." professor of Earth Observation at the University of Leeds

Just as I opened the door from the boys' floor, I stumbled onto Mr. Farrow and that freakishly unhot witch from downstairs, Mrs. Singer. Together. Standing at the landing on the tenantless girls' floor. They were kissing, and it wasn't one of those innocent oh-hello-you-frosty-and-cadaverous-old-hag-from-downstairs-so-nice-to-see-you-this-afternoon pecks on the cheek, either.