Quotes About Surprise

I never expected that this would be my life.

There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.

In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term.

Life's a bowl of punch, go ahead and spike it!

Life is nutty; anything can happen.

That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.

Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else.

Jesus had a tough life. I read about that guy. Jesus is the only guy that ever came back from the dead that didn't scare the F- out of everybody!

I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people.

What we have here is an unexpected touchdown on the runway of the heart.

What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being.

I was surprised how much Andy Cohen reveal about his insecurities and your personal life.

Life is amazing, isn't it? You can't ever tell what will happen. Nobody knows until they go ahead and play the game.

History , as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you. Also, here is a green toothbrush tied in a ribbon. It expresses my feelings inadequately.

Okay, so I'm completely undignified. As soon as school got out, I ran up to Kim, Nora and Cricket on the quad and told them the news. They were completely surprised and excited: Cricket was even jumping up an down. "Shiv! Ag!" she yelled. "He's fine ," said Nora, giggling. "Have you seen him in his rugby uniform? He has some serious legs," said Kim. "How did it happen?" Cricket wanted to know. I told all. They wanted to know more. "What did it feel like?" Electricity.

A game like that is typical for Tipper. She looks for ways to squeeze any last drop of pleasure from a situation, to create joy and surprise whenever she can.

We had been in the attic before. Also, we had never been in the attic before.

He wasn't much of a dancer, but he knew it, and the faces he pulled when he danced gave him a perpetually startled look-as if he were, at regular intervals, surprised to find himself dancing.

a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments

Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell.

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face.... The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due—she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

Mr. Bebee had lost every one, and had consumed in solitude the tea-basket which he had brought up as a pleasant surprise.

I sat looking at her, completely lost for words; women say the damnedest things.