Quotes About Surprise

I can't believe the phone has its own room!

Unter jeder harten Bananenschale steckt eine weiche...Banane

Nate jumped up and down, voice cracking as he talked. "It worked! It worked! My Taser worked! Ha! Oh yeah, oh yeah! I can't believe I got this thing on eBay!

Y lentamente, de su oscuro miedo empezó a brotar algo que todavía no era felicidad, pero sí un asombro ante la diversidad de la vida.

To-day she had watched magic dancing in a mackintosh, and she was at a loss.

Something nasty in the woodshed.

I saw something nasty in the woodshed.' Flora

Here conversation about Judith Spratt was not on the menu, since they sat surrounded by Fellows of the College. Most of them seemed to be men—somewhat to Liz's surprise, since her view of Somerville had been formed by Dorothy Sayers's Gaudy Night.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

I thought that was you.

Hey, more cash! This woman sent twenty dollars… and a coupon for diapers. Wait—that's a little mean.

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I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them.

When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.

He blinked at her visible honesty, at the earnestness on her face, and something inside him turned, knowing that he was the one responsible for the release of her tension. He'd made her feel better without even trying. What a guy. Then she reached into the tub, grabbed the gun, and shot him in the heart.

How is it possible you have caught me off guard, he seemed to ask. Exactly where have I miscalculated the velocities, how have I misjudged the vectors?

All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.

You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise.

Sometimes people can surprise you. Sometimes they have a great capacity to hear the truth.

One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.

I like to tell myself that truth is in the irregularity and the unexpected, and I try to look for both.

The truth, however, was stranger still.