Quotes About Surprise

I had long since realized that each of us organizes memory as it suits him, I'm still surprised when I do it myself. But it surprised me that one could go so far as to give the facts an arrangement that went against one's own interests.

And if my mother should emerge from my stomach just now when I think I'm safe?

It was predictable, of course, but now that a date had been fixed, March 12th, it was as if I had been strolling absentmindedly and banged into a door.

I]t was as if I had been strolling absentmindedly and banged into a door.

Ci metti sopra le chiese, i conventi, i libri - sembrano così importanti, i libri, disse con sarcasmo, tu ci hai dedicato tutta la tua vita - e il male sfonda il pavimento e sbuca dove non te l'aspetti.

There are moments when what exists on the edges of our lives, and which, it seems, will be in the background forever—an empire, a political party, a faith, a monument, but also simply the people who are part of our daily existence—collapses in an utterly unexpected way, and right when countless other things are pressing upon us.

I had long since realized that each of us organizes memory as it suits him, I'm still surprised when I do it myself. But it surprised me that one could go so far as to give the facts an arrangement that went against one's own interests.

Una noche la soñé y tal como la soñé amaneció frente a mi puerta.

The best things in life are unexpected — because there were no expectations.

Relearn astonishment.

Your hair looks different," Grisha told Varvara. "Oh? I haven't had it cut." He squinted at her. "I think it grew

Why do you look like that? You should be happy. A lot of things can happen in an airplane, at night, thirty thousand feet above the ocean.

At some point I thought I had grown a lump in my thigh, but it turned out to be a tangerine- it had fallen through a hole in the pocket and ended up trapped in the lining.

Words alone are never enough to convey meaning: prosody is an essential feature of adult verbal exchanges. Consider the exclamation 'Really!' It can imply surprise, disbelief, disapproval, enthusiasm, disdain, and perhaps many other meanings, each of which must be conveyed by intonation rather than by the word itself.

Be ready to be surprised. Be ready to hear evidence and arguments for positions you may not like. Be ready, even, to let yourself be swayed. True thinking is an open-ended process. The whole point is that you don't know when you start where you'll find yourself in the end.

All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming — a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.

Fools rejoice the talk of stupids only and, no surprise, to them a sage is only a mad or an idiot in this inhuman world.

Surprise do not even a bit by seeing the employees who snatch away sincere, hard workers' efforts credit often only get high salary increment and job promotion every year in a private organisation.

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine",

Life is full of fickleness and we get scared at every moment. And there is no place where this element is absent. But its effect is different in every person. Fear won't knock with prior knowledge; its appearances are always full of surprising facts.

In this town of towheaded drunks, [his daughter] would bear the weight of her difference, doled out in murmurs, taunts, and shoves. But now it occurred to Victor that she would suffer more than he ever had because, unlike him, she had been loved, and her punishment would come as a surprise.

they crossed a drawbridge over a quiet inlet she caught sight of herself in the window and thought, Cora, close your mouth, you look like a kid on Christmas morning.

If you expect a kick in the balls and you get a slap in the face, it's a victory.

I felt like I'd just discovered my last big glass of milk had actually come from a bull.