Quotes About Surprise

Usted me odia y no puede disimularlo, dijo Roger Casement. El sheriff, después de un momento de sorpresa, asintió, con una mueca que por un instante descompuso su cara abotargada

Is this the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kendall?" he asked, wondering whether he had arrived by mistake at a brothel that was throwing some sort of a party. "Oh

No one is ever quite ready; everyone is always caught off guard. Parenthood chooses you. And you open your eyes, look at what you've got, say Oh, my gosh, and recognize that of all the balls there ever were, this is the one you should not drop. It's not a question of choice.

Sometimes people can surprise the hell outta you. Sometimes they can tear your heart out and turn it to putty, can't they?

I'd like to make a minor adjustment to Leo Tolstoy's oft-quoted first sentence: All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, and when it comes to the Holiday Season, happy families can abruptly become unhappy and happy families can, to their great alarm, be happy.

Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.

War always takes you by surprise.

Prayer adds an element of surprise to your life that is more fun than a surprise party or surprise gift or surprise romance. In fact, prayer turns life into a party, into a gift, into a romance.

Like most of the great turning points in history, it was obvious and yet no one saw it coming.

I'm pretty nifty at thinking on my feet, even when I'm actually sitting down with a renter in my embrace, but this fellow's sudden appearance had me more than a little stumped

And it came to Daisy out of the blue. Her mother was a human being. How rarely she saw it.

Es mejor saber que una cosa buena va a pasar, como un eclipse, o que te regalen un microscopio por Navidad, que saber que una cosa mala va a pasar, como que te pongan un empaste o tener que ir a Francia. Pero creo que lo peor de todo es no saber si lo que va a pasar es una cosa buena o una cosa mala.

And it's best if you know a good thing is going to happen, like an eclipse or getting a microscope for Christmas. And it's bad if you know a bad thing is going to happen, like having a filling or going to France. But I think it is worst if you don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing which is going to happen.

Resurrection, he thought, comes not by plan or effort, and should the past ever come alive, it will be a great surprise, in which images and ritual memory will pale.

The history and failure of Keys' diet-heart hypothesis, that fat is bad, is well documented in Nina Teicholz's book, The Big Fat Surprise.

Maybe you don't really appreciate your father until he has huge tits.

That great moment when a plot twist appears in your story, one you never thought of, one coming from some hidden place in your mind.

I want to take my readers on a ride, but, in the end, I want to throw them from the carriage.

Beauty is not a hoax . . . Come on, I say to the creek, surprise me; and it does, with each new drop. Beauty is real. I would never deny it; the appalling thing is that I forget it (271).

I am puffed clay, blown up and set down. That I fall like Adam is not surprising: I plunge, waft, arc, pour, and dive. The surprise is how good the wind feels on my face as I fall. And the other surprise is that I ever rise at all

He thought his heart would kill him, he'd had no clue what it was capable of.

She ran right into his arms and he swung her around like a little kid, laughing, and then they hugged. He thought his heart would kill him, he'd had no clue what it was capable of.

You always run into something no matter where you go. Turns out you're someplace after all.

Which is how I found myself in a bathroom full of machine-guns.