Quotes About Surprise

Out of this world. Best tortilla ever. There's not even any pork in it.

I expected a gift, you know, something nice and useless...

One can almost always achieve surprise in war by suddenly doing something that is truly stupid, but surprise alone is scarcely victory.

When I returned to the bedroom, there was confetti all over the room. I had no idea what had happened until I picked up one of the pieces of confetti. "Oh, shit. That's a nipple. She must have found the pictures," I thought. I was right.

However much one hears about individuals, the picture formed in the mind rarely approximates to the reality. So it was with Mrs Maclintick. I was not prepared for her in the flesh. When she opened the door to us, her formidable discontent with life swept across the threshold in scorching, blasting waves.

Certain actions take place outside the normal course of things so unexpectedly that they seem to paralyse ordinary capacity for feeling surprise;

Everyone knows the manner in which some specific name will recur several times in quick succession from different quarters; part of that inexplicable magic throughout life that makes us suddenly think of someone before turning a street corner and meeting him, or her, face to face. In the same way, you may be struck, reading a book, by some obscure passage or lines of verse, quoted again, quite unexpectedly, twenty-four hours later.

It was realisation, in a moment of time, not only of her own possibilities, far from inconsiderable ones, but also of other possibilities that life might hold; and my chief emotion was surprise.

This revelation of Duport's musical leanings showed how, as ever, people can always produce something unexpected about themselves.

Surprise, the returns reported by mutual funds aren't actually earned by investors.

None of these seasoned investment professionals could have predicted what would happen next.

A thunderbolt at her feet could hardly have surprised or annoyed her more. If

Vavasor, as he walked up the House to the Clerk's table and took the oath and then walked down again, felt himself to be almost taken aback by the little notice which was accorded to him. It was not that he had expected to create a sensation, or that he had for a moment thought on the subject, but the thing which he was doing was so great to him, that the total indifference of those around him was a surprise to him.

and had come to regard the unevenness of her life, vacillating between knocks and knick-knacks, with a blow one day and a jewel the next, as the condition of things which was natural to her.

Dad also treasured the Church's beauty. Some years ago, then-Cardinal Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) observed that one of the most convincing demonstrations of the Catholic Church's truth is "the beauty that the faith has generated." That statement by a man of such intellectual standing might surprise us because we tend to associate beauty with feelings and not with truth.

The question caught me off guard.

We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising.

The secret to humor is surprise.

It is likely that unlikely things should happen

When Connie rounded the corner several seconds later, she found her friend standing glumly by herself, squeezing a roll of Charmin.

Just when you least expect it, --- enkantos will always have a way of surprising you.

Readers of a certain class are apt to call good the plot of that story in which you can't tell what is going to happen next. But in some of the most tedious novels ever written you can't tell what is going to happen next--and you don't care a fig what is going to happen next.

Dit was hoe het leven ging. Mensen verdwenen. En soms kwamen die mensen weer terug, op een avond, in de vroege zomer. Net op het moment dat je de ovenschotel in de oven had gedaan, maar dat konden ze niet weten.

He was prepared, he thought, for any wonder. The only thing he had never expected was the utterly commonplace.