Quotes About Surprise

Julie nearly fainted when I showed up at home that night with the new Lexus. The first thing she wanted to do was drive it. I let her drive all over San Francisco with the windows rolled up, because we didn't want to lose one precious whiff of that new-car smell.

It's possible to perceive what is coming and still be dumbfounded when it happens.

You can't explain grace, anyway, especially when it arrives almost despite yourself. I didn't even ask for it, yet somehow it breached and began to work.

When I woke in the dark I was smiling - it's a happy thing to brace for a visit from old friend Envy who then for some reason never shows up.

Nothing could quiet a happy crowd of kids like Mr. Holgren's unannounced appearance -- he loved superintending; he was made for it. So when he marched in that morning with a determined look on his face, we froze. Boys and girls recognize sinister as handily as dogs do. Here it was. My best guess now is he'd got it in his head to try relating to us -- but when he produced a paper pilgrim's hat from behind his back and put it on his own head, I think we all nearly bolted.

A person never knows what is next—I don't, anyway. The surface of everything is thinner than we know. A person can fall right through, without any warning at all.

A person never knows what is next -- I don't, anyway. The surface of everything is thinner than we know. A person can fall right through, without any warning at all.

She kept looking away then back to me, as though at a nice surprise. This was maybe best of all. I never once expected to be someone's nice surprise.

Why am I still surprised when it turns out there is more to the story?

Similarity breeds attraction. When you delay revealing your similarity, or let them discover it, it has much more punch.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that can happen to a man.

discovering that hunter-gatherers had constructed Göbekli Tepe was like finding that someone had built a 747 in a basement with an X-Acto knife.

According to the laws of chance, if you look around enough, you are bound to find something interesting.

In sum, if Jesus isn't surprising you, you've probably stopped growing spiritually.

Truth is both reason and revelation—and both can surprise us.

Pero así cómo el ojo ve primero lo que está al sol y después con asombro y alegría descubre en la sombra un tesoro

Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

Curiouser and curiouser!" Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).

When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!

but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.

Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way. So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake.

A very merry unbirthday to you

The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and scurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go.