Quotes About Surprise

You'll never see the moments coming that will forever mutilate your life—at least not until after they've mowed you down. —SAVITAR

If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep.

Marec was waiting in Shevraeth's tiny room. Shevraeth shut the door, and Marec dropped down onto the bed, snickering hoarsely in an effort to keep from being overheard by the boys. "You were terrifying." Shevraeth looked at him in surprise. "I was? I meant to be reasonable." "Sometimes reasonable is frightening," Marec said, still snickering.

I'm not certain what you mean by that last bit," I said at last. "As for the first, you said 'until last year.' Does that mean that Lady Tamara has someone else in view?" "But of course," Nee said blandly. "The Marquis of Shevraeth." I laughed all the way up the steps into the Residence.

He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient; he is simply not very interesting.

You know," Theodora said slowly, "up until the last minute—when I got to the gates, I guess—I never really thought there would be a Hill House. You don't go around expecting things like this to happen." "But some of us go around hoping," Eleanor said.

They walked over to it and Brad bent down gingerly: It's a leg all right, he said.

Pockets he wants! Let his mother send cloth for pockets and he'll get them. There's a fine how-do-you-do! Pockets!

Then out of the blue there came Shapiro the Bookkeeper who didn't play a bad game of chess and Rose fell for him.

Vocês policiais são como ônibus. Nunca estão lá quando precisamos, e então, de repente, todos aparecem de uma só vez.

Wer hätte das gedacht! Wir haben eine Gynäkologin in unserer Mitte. Sie sind besorgt wegen Krankheitserregern

To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Four or five cockroaches exploded from the inside of his shin pad, scurrying in all directions on the ice. Cockroaches. Those big, black ugly bugs so gross they make beetles look cuddly.

In the traumatic neuroses there are two outstanding features which might serve as clues for further reflection: first that the chief causal factor seemed to lie in the element of surprise, in the fright; and secondly that an injury or wound sustained at the same time generally tended to prevent the occurrence of the neurosis.

Once, when we were walking together on a campus outside the city, a chipmunk zipped across our path and dove into a hole at the base of an oak tree. "Oh, look at that," she said. "Just like Walt Disney.

I can't think when I was last surprised by anything I did. No, I'll get my own thing going, I don't know, I'll . . .' He returned to his drink. Maybe he could have finished the sentence, but Charles had a feeling that there was nothing more to add. Mark only wanted the negative benefit of escape; he had no positive thoughts of where he could escape to. Time

It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns (After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song 'Hero' by Mariah Carey)

All she had to do was make the simplest of gestures - open her hands and let go her hold. She lifted one hand and moved the fingers of it; they responded, in surprise and obedience, and this obedience of a thousand little unsuspected muscles was in itself a miracle. Why ask for more?

Asombrarse de la gracia de Dios es un signo de vitalidad espiritual. Es una prueba de fuego de cuán firme y real es nuestra comprensión del evangelio cristiano y cuán cerca caminamos de Jesucristo. El cristiano en crecimiento descubre que la gracia de Dios asombra y sorprende.

He felt like a man who has asked for a drink of cold charged water and found it warm and flat.

The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

Well, Watson, what do you make of it?' Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation. 'How did you know what I was doing? I believe you have eyes in the back of your head.' 'I have, at least, a well-polished, silver-plated coffee-pot in front of me', said he.

One night - it was in June, '89 - there came a ring to my bell, about the hour when a man gives his first yawn, and glances at the clock.

I'll have to admit, he really does have quite a smile. Kind of heart-stopping, especially as it comes out of nowhere. I mean... you know. If your heart was in the kind of place to be stopped.