Quotes About Surprise

The willingness to let go of what we know you might even call an expression of faith. Faith: not that things will work out as we hope, but faith, simply, in life and its extraordinary intelligence that never fails to surprise. While belief holds on tightly, faith lets go.

You always surprise me-right at the end.

Who'd have thought the son of a bitch would reproduce?

In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The 'anything whatever' then becomes the sophisticated acme of value.

Andrew Carnegie was truly saddened by the revelation of poor Pierpont's poverty. "And to think he was not a rich man

What nobody could have foreseen in 1913 was that

almost reeling with shock.

The second surprise was hypercoagulability—a pronounced tendency to develop blood clots.

She said, "You say no one ever is sure what to expect. On either side. Which is a good thing. It means the game goes to the fastest thinker. That's all I need to be." "Correct," I said. "Weird things are going to happen, and things are going to change, and the ground is going to move under our feet, but if we keep on thinking fast, we'll be OK.

No one expects a head butt. Humans don't hit things with their heads. Some inbuilt atavistic instinct says so. A head butt changes the game. It adds a kind of unhinged savagery to the mix. An unprovoked head butt is like bringing a sawed-off shotgun to a knife fight. The guy went down like an empty suit.

Surprise was always good. Delay was always fatal. Guys who let a situation unfold in its own good time were just stockpiling problems for themselves.

Then finally he opened the wrong door, and what came out at him was his problem, not mine.

But, you know, nobody lives forever. Conceptually these things don't come as a surprise.

six-five two-fifty visitor.

OK,' Duffy said. 'So what have we got?' We had rugs. The door rattled upward and daylight

There was a knock at the door. Neagley herself, Reacher figured, right on cue, checking if Sinclair had killed him yet. Or Bishop, checking if he had killed Sinclair. He opened up, standing to one side, out of the line of fire. Long

Make it all a little unpredictable. How about

It's about surprise, really. If you can surprise them you don't have to hit them very hard.

Never count on anything except surprise and unpredictability and danger. Ring doorbells with your knuckles or elbows to avoid leaving fingerprints.

Then the lights seemed to dim as Chief of Detectives Griezman walked up to their table. Six-six and three hundred pounds. Billowing gray suit the size of a pup tent. The floor creaked. Griezman said, "I am very sorry to interrupt." Reacher

rooms a thousand times before. There was a raucous through-the-wall

9. Un disparo

IT WAS ANOTHER HOUR BEFORE ANYTHING SHOWED UP.

When a bird crapped on my window, he called 911.