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Quotes About Surprise

L'amore ci aveva sorpreso inatteso e violento come un assassino che sbuchi fuori d'improvviso, e ci aveva pugnalato entrambi. Così colpisce il fulmine, così colpisce la lama finnica.
~ Michail Bulgakov
The ancient Florentines were so far from seeking to obtain any advantage over their enemies by surprise, that they always gave them a month's warning before they drew their army into the field, by the continual tolling of a bell they called Martinella.—[After St. Martin.] For
~ Michel de Montaigne
What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.
~ Michel Faber
Strangely, the job description did not specify that as a requirement.
~ Michelle Knudsen
For your next act, please don't pull any rabbits out of my... well, hat. .... He licked playfully at her mouth. And ya can't call my manhood 'rabbit'.
~ Michelle M. Pillow
Would ya like to--- Iain paused, shocked as the pretty woman turned and hurried away from him. To himself, he finished, Get a drink with me?
~ Michelle M. Pillow
Angus skidded to a stop and lifted his jaw as if sensing he was being watched. He looked in her direction and instantly covered his manhood as his eyes caught Jane's shocked face in the tree limbs. Oh, lassie. Oh, naked man, Jane teased before she could stop herself.
~ Michelle M. Pillow
She'd just seen her dead grandmother and had a lovesick warlock on her lawn. The last thing she needed was to worry about extraterrestrial probing.
~ Michelle M. Pillow
The essence of humor is when our simulation of the future is suddenly disrupted in surprising ways.
~ Michio Kaku
NASA officials did not know that commander Alan Shepard had secretly smuggled a six-iron golf club into the space capsule. They were surprised when he proceeded to take out the club and hit a golf ball two hundred yards on the lunar surface.
~ Michio Kaku
His mouth had already been hanging open, but it managed to hang open further as the tiny close-set peepers crowding his nose opened with the wide-eyed innocence of a newborn suffering its first gas pain.
~ Mickey Spillane
It wasn't what I was expecting, but like I've always said, if life gives you lemmings, jump off a cliff.
~ Mike Carey
I had managed to live this long not knowing any Russians, not really, and yet now my life was crawling with them, like I was an election they wanted to hack.
~ Mike Lupica
Kris decided to wait and see if this new Wasp was bigger than a bread box and smaller than the mythical telephone booth.
~ Mike Shepherd
A supply ship was named the Surprise. That . . . was not encouraging.
~ Mike Shepherd
Spirituality is a mixed-up, topsy-turvy, helter-skelter godliness that turns our lives into an upside-down toboggan ride of unexpected turns, surprise bumps and bone shattering crashes ... a life ruined by a Jesus who loves us right into his arms.
~ Mike Yaconelli
What? Even after my intercession?
~ Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov
Tak, czÅ'owiek jest Å›miertelny, ale to jeszcze póÅ' biedy. Najgorsze, ?e to, i? jest Å›miertelny, okazuje siÄ™ niespodziewanie, w tym wÅ'aÅ›nie sÄ™k!
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Man is mortal and, as has rightly been said, unexpectedly mortal.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Cz?owiek jest ?miertelny i jak to kto? s?usznie powiedzia?, to, i? jest ?miertelny, okazuje si? niespodziewanie.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Ka?dy z literatów pomyÅ›laÅ' co innego. Berlioz: "Nie, to jednak cudzoziemiec!", a Bezdomny: "O, cholera!...".
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
L'amour surgit devant nous comme surgit de terre l'assassin au coin d'une ruelle obscure, et nous frappa tous deux d'un coup. Ainsi frappe la foudre, ainsi frappe le poignard !
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
She felt something warm and velvety by her leg. It was Behemoth.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Da, ?ovjek je smrtan, ali to bi bilo tek pola nevolje. Zlo je u tome što je nejgova smrt katkada posve iznenadna, eto u ?emu je trik! I op?enito, on ne može re?i ?ak ni što ?e raditi danas nave?er.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov