Quotes About Surprise

Unlikely things are often true . . .

What are you doing? (Amanda) I'm getting into my car. (Kyrian) You own this?! (Amanda) No. I'm stealing it with the key in my hand. (Kyrian)

Familiarity breeds contempt and predictability breeds boredom.

She shoved her hands in the deep silk-lined pockets…where she felt the cold steel of a revolver.

He smiled at her. And it hit her like a mallet to the temple, the realization that she was in love with him. Stupidly, dreadfully in love with him. Overnight, she'd become a fool.

And Tomlinson found this in the Times right before I left to come here." Windham

Perhaps he should have brought her something. Flowers. Or cake, if she had managed to reverse Maximum Tolerable Chins.

I cannot believe you are who you are," he said, still flabbergasted. "I know she's admitted it and everything adds up. But I cannot believe it. I cannot believe I was right and your family really does go back to the Battle of Hastings." "Wrong." She was laughing and crying at once. "And I'm shocked that you don't know better—we are older than that; we were already earls under Edward the Confessor.

I'm surprised when people are not me. I'm shocked when they are not them.

what were you hoping to find?" he snapped "A little tree house with a sign reading serial killers hangout, please come in?.

The Tibetans have an exclamatory cry reserved just for when that window opens. The cry is Emaho! which might be loosely rendered "Oh my God! Who would have thought it's this simple!

Being pregnant was, well, inconceivable.

This is..." "You completely forgot what day it is, didn't you?" "Eh?" "It's your birthday!!" "Huh... It is? Oh!" "Idiot!

Who could guess he'd have a tooth pulled by Shmelke the healer and lie down the next morning and die? It's as my mother says: "Tomorrow is another day—but whose?

To be curious about a thing you have to find something surprising in it, and I'm afraid that nothing surprises me any more.

Ich war ein wenig verstört über unsere offensichtlichen Gemeinsamkeiten, hatte ich doch gemeint, Lichtjahre von ihm entfernt zu sein.

The charm of anything is in it's novelty.

The most vulnerable moment for your enemy is when they are thinking that everything is going according to plan.

Challenges to existing views are generally uncomfortable. Indeed, for most people and organizations, coming face to face with a mismatch between what they believed and what they have just experienced is difficult. These people and organizations will do anything to reduce the nature of the surprise.

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

You don't know what can happen tomorrow. Life is like a novel, isn't it? It's filled with suspense. You never know what's going to happen until you turn the page.

But I've grown thoughtful now. And you have lost Your early-morning freshness of surprise At being so utterly mine: you've learned to fear The gloomy, stricken places in my soul, And the occasional ghosts that haunt my gaze.

you get up one day and somebody has taken one of the mountains away

THE MAGIC TREE Everyone in that crowd turned its head, and then everyone drew a long breath of wonder and delight. A little way off, towering over their heads, they saw a tree which certainly had not been there before. – The Magician's Nephew, C. S. Lewis