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Quotes About Surprise

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.
~ Rue McClanahan
When one came to know them it was surprising how childish grown people could be.
~ Rumer Godden
And then you suddenly cried, and turned away.
~ Rupert Brooke
The adventure is not in getting somewhere, it's the on-the-way experience. It is not the expected; it's the surprise. Not the fulfilment of prophecy, but the providence of something better than that prophesied.
~ Ruskin Bond
The adventure is not in arriving, it's in the on-the-way experience. It is not in the expected; it's in the surprise. You
~ Ruskin Bond
We cannot foresee when a bolt from the blue will put an end to the best-laid plans of mice and men.
~ Ruskin Bond
Romance lurks in the most unlikely places.
~ Ruskin Bond
Almost always, it's the unexpected that delights us, that takes us by the throat and gives us a good shaking, leaving us gaping in wonder.
~ Ruskin Bond
There is no moral to the story, any more than there is a moral to life. We cannot foresee when a bolt from the blue will put an end to the best-laid plans of mice and men.
~ Ruskin Bond
Loyalty is weird, it kicks in when you dont expect it and the people who deserve loyalty least seem to get it the most.
~ Russell Banks
Actually I dont know if it ever works out unless you are standing in the middle of the street and dont see the ten-ton truck coming and this good guy pushes you out of the way and says its for your own good.
~ Russell Banks
People are different in reality from the way you've seen them while making scenarios in your mind. For one thing, they're less consistent. They surprise you all the time.
~ Ruth Rendell
I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course.
~ Ruth Warrick
On Porter's desk was a gold-framed portrait of Mama, looking as beautiful as a movie star, and be- side it, to my surprise, was a picture of me. The last time I was in this office, it had not been there, and I was pleased to see it.
~ Ruth White
the top of your screen Alex: AHAHA oh yeah lol Adam: So, can you tell him I've found it? Alex: Hi It's Adam. Someone's found your phone.
~ Ryan Brown
Knock, knock. Who's there? You're diamond. You're diamond who? You're diamond me crazy!
~ Ryan Johnson
The machine captured that old sense of irony in death: you can know how it's going to happen, but you'll still be surprised when it does.
~ Ryan North
Sometimes what comes, simply comes, too fast to anticipate, or counter with prudence. The deluge just appears, on occasion, be it weather, or life.
~ Ryne Douglas Pearson
For even the most wretched and simple-minded man could be a surprise, even a fool could have a soul whose torments were a constant source of amazement. Why are we so slow to see this, and why do we assume that it is the easiest thing in the world to know and judge another?
~ Sabahattin Ali
How could I long so for someone whose existence I'd only just become aware of? But wasn't it always like this? Some things we never know we need until we find them.
~ Sabahattin Ali
Some things we never know we need until we find them.
~ Sabahattin Ali
We would never have tracked him down if you hadn't followed him." "Or if Jane hadn't convinced Meredith to tell us where the house is," Tristan said. "Your fiancé is quite a woman." "I know." And she never ceased to amaze him.
~ Sabrina Jeffries
Her mouth formed a silent "O" to
~ Sabrina Jeffries
He slipped into the hall, then nearly tripped over a man sitting in the middle. It was his friend Dr. Roget, whose project of grouping words by their types absorbed his every hour these days. Anthony tried to sneak past, but no such luck.
~ Sabrina Jeffries