Quotes About Surprise

Involuntarily, she stopped, jerked up her head, looked around her like a frightened woman. They weren't car horns: they were wind instruments

Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised.

To truly win a war, attack the enemy's plan.

There's something you don't know." Those were five words no lawyer ever wanted to hear.

We should look closely on what is happening at the moment, guys with little moustaches can pop up everywhere now given this instable economic situation. A look into history shows us what that could mean.

Pay attention to how people respond; if their response surprises or frustrates you, learn from it and try something different.

The future is far less knowable than you think.

endangered joy of serendipity

Flow is not the singular intensity of focusing "like a laser," as we often say. And it is not the miraculous illumination of a sudden brainstorm. Rather, it is more the feeling of drifting along a stream, being carried in a clear direction, but still tossed in surprising ways by the eddies and whirls of moving water.

When Guier, Weiffenbach, and McClure were designing their system to help American submarines launch Polaris missiles against the Soviet Union, it never occurred to them that someday someone would use their platform to rave about a bowl of potato and leek soup to nearby strangers. Stacked platforms are like that: you think you're fighting the Cold War, and it turns out you're actually helping people figure out where to have lunch.

What looks inevitable in hindsight is often invisible with foresight.

And here is a shocker: The world has made spectacular progress in every single measure of human well-being. Here is a second shocker: Almost no one knows about it.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, or drop a jar of applesauce.

I want to serve desserts and pastries that people recognize and love to eat, but sometimes, with an unexpected twist of surprise.

The Lord is always there waiting to give us his love: it is an amazing thing, one which never ceases to surprise us!

He grinned at me so unexpectedly I forgot to flap for a second and dropped several feet. "You looove me," he crooned smugly. Holding his arms out wide, he added, "You love me this much.

Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid

One day I woke up and discovered that I was in love with tripe.

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

I love doing things people don't expect. The fans will be well fed.

I'm always stunned when I find out people like Roosevelt and Tolstoy weren't Jewish. How could I love them so much?

I love to create. I love to make magic. I love to create the unexpected.

Some people don't even recognize real love when it comes without being called or sought.