Quotes About Surprise

I find it comforting to prepare myself for a calamity and to be pleasantly surprised if it turns out to be a garden-variety disaster instead.

Never forget, the unimaginable can happen.

Submarines were treated as rattlesnakes by anyone who sighted them.

The ending is always a surprise.

The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas.

To this day, many US Americans, as well as many Europeans, are unaware of the fact that Roosevelt was not surprised by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and that he had even provoked it by imposing the oil embargo.

It was possible that I could stop assuming that no one could handle the whole mess of me and give them a chance to surprise me instead.

I'm astonished by my success.

The past was a minefield about which few maps seemed to agree. And why should that surprise me? It's a big place. p. 30

I found this bag of fireworks in the men's restroom. Would you guys like to light them off?

Es increíble que una persona que acaba de entrar en tu vida pueda demostrarte más sentimientos que otras personas que han estado ahí siempre…

Si on attend tout de lui, on se contente finalement de peu. La moindre surprise est accueillie comme un miracle.

No. I am your father.

If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.

Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.

You start the day you think it will play out the way you saw in your head but then you discover the day is mostly just dread It's not like what I read

If, when you appear at the breakfast table, your wife laughs to hard that she spits out her toast, you should consider wearing a different tie.

Omigosh—I'm a squash!

I like the adventures because you know that when they say, "I've got a plan," and then they tell you, you know it's not going to work. And when they say, "I've got a plan," and they don't tell you, you know it is going to work, and it's all very exciting. I thought real life might be like that for a while, so I didn't tell anybody what I wanted to happen, but it didn't make any difference. I knew I was kiddin' meself.

One of the problems with travelling in the TARDIS, no matter what state of repair it might ultimately be in, is that you can leave a place of sweltering heat to find yourself in bitter cold, and you always seem to have put on the wrong clothes for it.

If you're using a dollar store pregnancy test, you're probably pregnant.

A crash helmet slams down on the BMW's hood, bouncing off and falling into the road. Peter isn't sure if there was a head in it.

When things happen, they tend to happen suddenly.

You won the Nobel Peace Prize," he said. "Are you kidding me?" "I promise you, sir, that I wouldn't wake you up to play a joke," Gibbs replied. "You've won the Nobel Peace Prize." "Gee," Obama said, absorbing the unlikely news. "All I want to do is pass health care.