Quotes About Surprise

La letteratura agisce sulle fibre nervose di chi s'imbatte nel fortunoso incontro tra un libro e la propria vita. Sono appuntamenti che non si possono prenotare né raccomandare. A ogni lettore spetta la sorpresa di fronte alla mescola improvvisa tra i suoi giorni e le pagine di un libro.

Le plus souvent notre meilleur côté ne dépend pas de nous, il est confié à l'initiative d'un inconnu qui vient le réveiller par hasard.

I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.

Was I shocked to find that the world of my childhood could be contained in a single crate?

I learned you pay for your happiness. That's why I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised by one moment every so often to remind me that joy is possible, even if I have to pay for it later.

I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised by one moment every so often to remind me that joy is possible, even if I have to pay for it later.

The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.

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The guy on the roof nods--it looks like this time, he heard something--and shouts back at me, "How did you know? How did you know she died?" Someone always dies, I want to yell back at him. Always. If not her, then someone else.

Every time he opens his mouth I have absolutely no idea what he's gonna say. He's the most honest person I've ever met. He's a quick study and rarely needs to make the same mistake twice. He really tries to learn, and does, and he makes me laugh, and the world's generally a lighter place when he's in my sight.

Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a guitar, and he gets it home and opens it up and there's a rake inside it, an electric toilet plunger and a dog skull? That actually happened.

Ziklag: for me this became the premier biblical site for realizing that when we get serious about the Christian life, we eventually end up in a place and among people decidedly uncongenial to what we expected. At least uncongenial to what I expected. That place and people is often called a church. It is hard to get over the disappointment that God, having made an exception in my case, didn't seem to call nice, accomplished, courteous, alert people to worship.

It is not just pastors who get surprised, but it is easy for pastors to harbor the presumption that when we are wronged or ignored or dismissed, God himself is being blasphemed.

It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It's the very nature of wonder to catch us off guard, to circumvent expectations and assumptions. Wonder can't be packaged, and it can't be worked up. It requires some sense of being there and some sense of engagement.

I pause when the man at the register lays down a red carnation with my change, says quietly, "This is for you," and turns to the next customer. As I am starting my car I see another woman smiling and stepping into her car, holding a white carnation.

He was just drifting off to sleep when it occurred to him that perhaps the dog was not so ordinary after all. Perhaps he was someone the ogre had changed, and Ivo was going to spend the night hugging a headmaster or a tax inspector

I think I ought to cut my hair off," said Maia, one morning, as she tore yet another tooth out of Finn's comb. "No. That's a bad idea." Maia looked up, surprised. "But you wanted Clovis to cut his hair." "That was different.

She hadn't had many lovers but the men she'd been with in the past had convinced her that sex was like a box of chocolates—you never knew what you were going to get when you went to bed with a man. And

Her hand shook as she raised the loincloth and she gave a little gasp at what she saw beneath. Even only half hard, he was big. Way bigger than anyone else in her limited experience—especially Donald whose equipment reminded her of a shy, skinny worm afraid to come out of its hole.

When I first released 'The One And Only' nobody knew it was going to be so big. I just thought, 'Oh, this is what happens when you release a record? Brilliant! Let's release another.'

When 'Aashiqui' was released nobody knew that it will be such a good film... it is a cult film.

When I did 'Ephorize,' I didn't know that later on I'd be releasing another album. It just came.

I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.

I remember when James Wan and I did the first 'Saw' movie, a lot of people would say to us, 'Well, you left the door open for a sequel.' And we would say, 'No, we literally closed the door!' We thought it was a nice ending. Little did we know that the producers had other ideas once the film was a hit.