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Quotes About Surprise

You never know / What opportunity / Is going to travel to you, / Or through you.
~ Mary Oliver
The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet.
~ Alexandra David-Neel
So you set out to travel to Rome... and end up in Istanbul. You set off for Japan... and you end up on a train across Siberia. The journey, not the destination, becomes a source of wonder.
~ Loreena McKennitt
I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.
~ Justina Chen
Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else
~ Miriam
I didn't realise you could travel so far and still be in England.
~ Kevin Bond
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. Nothing shakes the heart so much as meeting-far, far away-what you last met at home.
~ Cynthia Ozick
Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.
~ Alison Lurie
I'd heard street food was a big thing here in Mexico but I didn't think it meant the creatures that lived on the street.
~ Karl Pilkington
Sometimes @BrookeShields rolls into your party dressed as a Christmas tree, carrying a bucket of KFC. pic.twitter.com/DTtZkZY4cB
~ Willie Geist
You know, I never imagined there were he-dryads. Not even in an oak tree." One of the giants grinned at him. Druellae snorted. "Stupid! Where do you think acorns come from?
~ Terry Pratchett
If you had a Ministry box set under your Christmas tree, wrapped in paper, 'From Beer to Eternity' is the bow that goes around the present, you know what I mean?
~ Al Jourgensen
Risk-taking, trust, and serendipity are key ingredients of joy. Without risk, nothing new ever happens. Without trust, fear creeps in. Without serendipity, there are no surprises.
~ Rita Gelman
I didn't think it was going to be this fun. But everything just gets heightened when you have a baby. The volume gets turned up on life. I never knew I could be this happy, and that's the truth.
~ Jimmy Fallon
During a race where everyone holds their own truth, the finish line is a surprise.
~ Akiane Kramarik
You're not going to kill me, skin me, and wear my head as a hat?
~ Shelly Laurenston
Why would there be a morgue in a sports center?" Charlie asked. "Because Soylent Green is people?
~ Shelly Laurenston
It simply dazzled her how he went from goofy bear, rolling on his back and playing with his toes, and right into sexy-beyond-belief Jersey grizzly who'd worked her body like a love god.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Her eyes grew wide and she briefly covered her mouth with her hand. "Are you a virgin?" she whispered. "What? No!" "But when do you find time with that rigid schedule of yours? I mean prisoners at Rikers have more freedom!
~ Shelly Laurenston
If he didn't have Ronnie already in his arms he'd have assumed she'd just opened the door...and aged a few years. Wow, he thought in surprise, she's going to be hot when we hit fifty.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Oh, my God," she gasped. "What?" "It is bigger." Lock peered down at his cock. "Well," he offered as explanation, "it's in a good mood.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Hold on," she murmured, and he briefly wondered if she ever used that particular tone of voice in bed. Mitch snorted, trying to stop where his thoughts were headed—again. "Yeah, yeah. Show me what ya got, sweet—Mother of God Almighty!
~ Shelly Laurenston
nothing is ever what you imagine, is it?
~ Sheridan Hay