Quotes About Surprise

He who sleeps in the raw, is in for a nude awakening.

Don't worry, it only seems kinky the first time.

O Death, thou comest when I had thee least in mind.

Love is a Mystery. You can't find it; it has to find you.

If at first you do succeed — try to hide your astonishment.

Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?

The day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

My computer kept beating the pants off me at chess, until I discovered that it was no match against me at kickboxing.

There is a lot more juice in grapefruit than meets the eye.

When life throws you lemons, make orange juice. It will leave them wondering how the hell you did that.

Thou hast showed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was after at all.

continua a surpreender-me o número de recordações que se podem pendurar lado a lado no fio de uma lágrima)" - pg 130/616

She comes downstairs and is surprised to be handed a curious-looking bouquet. Only on closer inspection does it become apparent that this is, in fact, a bunch made up of candied flowers---pale orange blossoms, bright blue florets of borage, even tender young rosebuds, all encased in hard, clear shells of sugar, like tiny caramel apples.

Just when we think we have a system, ...the system collapses. Just when we know our way around, we get lost. Just when we think we know what's coming next, everything changes.

Stranger, whoever you are, open this to learn what will amaze you.

It's like reaching into a sack full of cotton and finding a razor blade inside, everything constant and undeviating and then that one dangerous thing, so sharp you can hardly feel it open your skin.

All the things he did not see... (a black bear, two hawks, horsemen, a trio of summer cabins far below him...)

The surprise was total.

Then an astonishing thing occurred. In the early afternoon, the wind shifted

Arminius had chosen the location for the ambush with great care.

till it jumped out of a jar and bit her). She was thirty-nine.

I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.

What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.