Quotes About Surprise

Allow spontaneity in your life!

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No one should be surprised at the prominence given to war. We are dealing with early ages: nation-making is the occupation of man in these ages, and it is war that makes nations.

When Mama starts to move across a room, people pay attention. You can never be sure she's not going to grab you by the top of the head to steady herself. And she's pretty free with that walking stick, too.

There's no greater chaos than when swift, violent death knocks on the door of an unsuspecting crowd.

The best joke of all is to give someone just what they've wanted.

El amor que nace de repente es el más largo de curar.

Sunt fericiri în care nu mai crezi. Ele vin ca o lovitur? de tr?znet ?i te mistuie.

in this society, things you'd think could only be bad jokes actually happen all the time.

Pero ¿no están corriendo las lágrimas por mis mejillas y caen a goterones sobre mi pecho? Me sorprendió. Pensé que el funcionamiento de mi cuerpo se había estropeado. Igual que cuando una está muy borracha y las lágrimas van saliendo, una tras otra, sin parar, por algo que no tiene relación con una misma.

God shows up in whirlwinds, starry skies, burning bushes, and perfect strangers.

I dreaded going to the farm, but when I arrived there, it was very much better than I expected. Things one dreads usually are: it's only the things we look forward to that go all wrong.

She distracted him by pulling her gift for him out from under the bed. It was two-tiered and beautifully wrapped, with an exquisite card she had made herself—she was an artist, after all. He read the message inside, felt a catch in

At last they reached Wild River. "This is it?" Bill gawked in dismay. Jordanna joined the men to stare at the dark bed of mossy rocks. "It is wild, isn't it?" she quipped, surprising herself with her own good humor when her shoulders, her back, her legs ached.

How to describe what she felt as she stood at the head of an all-new cobblestone drive looking at the rebuilt facade of what had once been a weary old Cape? There was relief that the hard work was done, and surprise—always surprise—that everything had come together so well. There was also a sense of ownership. Caroline hadn't asked to be the mouthpiece of the show, but after nearly ten years as host, it was her baby as much as anyone's. Gut

he couldn't deny the unexpected rush of pleasure at the pairing of his great-nephew with Lizbet Blythe's granddaughter. "One for you, Sam!" Daisy Vashon exclaimed from behind his right shoulder. The five of them—Sam, Daisy, JW Sterling, Lizbet and Hannah Sprite—were clustered around the computer screen in his garage at the Sunny Autumn Seniors Community in Port Aidin, Florida. "Logan Edwards and Jade Korrigan," Hannah read aloud from behind

absolutely no factual information whatsoever." JW would admit that his newly discovered grandson, Morgan Holbrook,

It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Be reckless. What's the worst that can happen? We're hoping to be surprised by some unrestrained part of ourselves that can't be expressed in our ordinary lives. The discoveries we're after can only surprise us when we're ready to accept whatever we uncover.

She would say, "Abracadabra sis boom bah," and there Queenie would be, curled up in the middle of her bed with her chin resting on her toy monkey.

And somehow I do not think we ever imagined the husbands to be quite so uninteresting as they probably were.

That vexing problem of war presented by the refusal of the enemy to behave as expected in his own best interest beset them.

what with the follies and an indecent proposal it's been quite a night