Quotes About Surprise

She had already grabbed him under his soggy armpits and was struggling him up the bank toward the flat ground of her front orchard. He had never felt her touch or her grip before and was shocked by this little woman's strength. He tried to help with his useless legs, but he felt as if he were participating in the sport of alligator wrestling and knew, with a sinking heart, that he was the alligator.

Then comes the day where Turp is waiting by my locker like a big red balloon fixing to pop.

Tiptoe past the dogs of the apocalypse asleep in the shade of your future. Pay at the window. You'll be surprised: you can pass off hope like a bad check. You still have time, that's the thing. To make it good.

I felt as though I had a blind date with destiny, and someone had heard a rumor that destiny looked like Christopher Reeve.

Daddy and I got married kind of accidentally.

You feel like you'll never run into another one that's worth turning your head around for, but you will. You'll see." "No

Well, Pat, you aren't going to believe this…

Because maybe the surprise was hiding down there with a red ribbon on top of it.

And what's this the cat's dragged in then? Lochinvar,' she said acidly.

Non per vendetta, mai per stupore, tutt'al più per caso.

Nos ocultaron que era tan difícil. Por tanto trazamos vírgenes imperfectas, sorprendidos al no hallar al final aquellos ojos vacíos —sino, por el contrario, dolor y remordimiento. Por eso nos herimos, por eso morimos. Pero se trata tan sólo de una cuestión de paciencia. De ejercicio.

The front door opened again. I glanced up and saw Karate. Christ, I thought. The gang's all here.

Why didn't you just come to my apartment?" He smiled. "Where you live is always where you are most vulnerable because it represents a possible choke point for an ambush. And I would not wish to surprise a man like you where he felt most vulnerable. Safer, I judged, to approach you on neutral ground, where you might even see me coming, ne?

I heard footsteps on the tile, then saw his profile as he emerged from the bathroom, wearing only a white tee shirt and matching boxer shorts.

It was quite a shock for me to discover that crime was so easy that it was boring. I reluctantly turned to scholarship.

Because of a ubiquitous feature of human psychology, very little in life turns out quite as good as we expect it will be.

The lesson here is that high expectations can be counter-productive. We probably can do more to affect the quality of our lives by controlling our expectations than we can by doing virtually anything else. The blessing of modest expectations is that they leave room for many experiences to be a pleasant surprise, a hedonic plus. The challenge is to find a way to keep expectations modest, even as actual experiences keep getting better.

Say whatever you want about Stoke Jones, you could depend on him to put a little f/u into your day.

But eventually, something will happen. Something always does. And when it does... I will come to Mother.

Coincidence has been cancelled, honey," Susannah said. "What we're living in these days is more like the Charles Dickens version of reality.

Roll me in sugar and call me a fuckin jelly-doughnut!

Let me close with a word of caution: when you're on the turnpikes and freeways of America, watch out for those Winnebagos and Bounders. You never know who might be inside. Or what.

It's here!' he shouted.

An audience will remember what it didn't expect to see (or read). From Action/ReAction: A unique and innovative technique for actors and the history of its origins...