Quotes About Surprise

getting what you wanted never turned out the way you'd thought it would.

So I go into our dressing room and here's this huge bouquet of roses with a card in it. So I open up the card and it reads 'The best of my love, dot dot dot.

So I go into our dressing room and here's this huge bouquet of roses with a card in it. So I open up the card and it reads 'The best of my love, dot dot dot. Tonight, question mark, Don.

I mean how could he possibly preconceive something like that?' And I'm dying right? My face is red and I'm fuming. And then, finally, Christine grabs me and takes me aside and says 'Don didn't send that. Mick and John did.' They were in hysterics.

happiness creeps up on you, does it not? You never see it arrive, but one day you hesitate and you are aware that there is something... additional

Nothing should ever really surprise us because people are like icebergs, you only see the little bit on the top.

Stupefied he gazed at the old man who, naïve as a child, returned his glance still rubbing his hands. How could he have recognized one who so utterly betrayed all his expectations? The man whom Valignano had called a devil, who had made the missionaries apostatize one by one--until now he had envisaged the face of this man as pale and crafty. But here before his very eyes sat this understanding, seemingly good, meek man.

Zain pinched my skin. I surprised myself when I instantly flipped up that same arm and gripped her wrist hard. I said, in a soft voice, "Don't do that." There was no smile on my face now. But that was when her facade broke, and she was suddenly grinning. I felt her body relax. My grip relaxed then, too, but I did not let go of her hand. I remained unsmiling, suddenly frightened, but not of her.

Pull over here, Bruno said. At the mall. Here? Alex Aaro scowled over his shoulder at them. You're being pursued by hit men, and you want an Egg McMuffin?

I could tell you an extensively strange story, I warned. Oh, good! Gram said. Delicious!

Geoffrey looked startled to see both his great-uncles bearing down upon him with such haste; he hadn't realized men their age could move so fast.

The last time Ranulf had run into Sulien, the older man had called him a misbegotten English Judas and spat onto the ground at his feet. Yet now that same man was approaching the bed with a jovial smile, so apparently pleased to see the Judas again that Ranulf half-expected him to announce that a fatted calf had been killed in his honor.

Here I was, rushing off to save my little brother from pirates, only to find that he fancies being a pirate himself!

Everyone we interact with has the capacity to surprise us in an infinite number of ways. What can first open us up to each of our innate capacities for love is merely to recognize that.

There is no chance for surprise," he said, shaking his head and shrugging his shoulders with that French way he had. "Theyll be intrenched to the eyes.

Okay. Let's see what we've got. He lifted up her foot and said, Well, what we've got here is a freakin' boat. Really? She slammed her heel against the side of his face, snapping his head to one side. How big are they now, Mitch? Rubbing the abused side of his face, Dainty little elf feet? Exactly.

Blayne turned her head to look at Gwen, but caught sight of Dee-Ann standing behind them. Ahh! Where the hell did you come from? Momma says from the love she shares with my daddy, Dee calmly replied.

Did you know that you can be killed by a benign tumor? Imagine that news headline: Native American poet killed by oxymoron.

You should approach each book—you should approach life—with the real possibility that you might get a metaphorical boner at any point.

Death is always incongruous.

You'll never see the moments coming that will for ever mutilate your life-at least not until after they've mowed you down. -Savitar

Where are you anyway? (Acheron) I don't know. I hear some godawful kind of music from outside, horns blaring, and I'm in a house with a Mohawk cuckoo bird, a transvestite, and a knife-wielding lunatic. (Valerius) Why are you at Tabitha's? (Acheron)

I got a shotgun and a backhoe and no one looks under a septic tank for a dead body. (Bubba)

Where am I? (Nick) Hospital. (Kyrian) Really? No kidding? And here I thought I was at McDonald's. (Nick)