Quotes About Surprise

Je größerer Art die Maßnahmen werden, um so weniger kann man damit überraschen.

der Handelnde im Kriege die Dinge unaufhörlich anders findet, als er sie erwartet hatte

No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that: a) people whom one had once judged rational and intelligent turn out to be unashamedly stupid. b) day after day, with unceasing monotony, one is harassed in one's activities by stupid individuals who appear suddenly and unexpectedly in the most inconvenient places and at the most improbable moments.

The only thing that has ever made me feel old is those few times where I allow myself to be predictable.

Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'

Então se não vieste à caça, não se procura, encontra-se. E encontrámos este sítio. Some-se se o recusarmos. É o adequado por ser este mesmo, Mariana, o sítio onde a lebre dorme no campo, onde está agachada à nossa espera, a surpresa.

El tiempo transcurre a hurtadillas, disimulando no le vemos andar. Pero de pronto volvemos la cabeza y encontramos imágenes que se han desplazado a nuestras espaldas, fotos fijas, sin referencia de fecha, como las figuras de los niños del escondite inglés, a los que nunca se pillaba en movimiento

Hay veces en que lo normal pasa a extraordinario así por las buenas y lo notamos sin saber cómo.

Holy shit. It is like his mouth is falling down the stairs.

Holy shit!" Moondance swung around, her face now streaked with the ashy remains of the nephilim, her eyes wide at the sight of me. "Callie's back, and she brought a laser gun!

It was van Drood who looked surprised. 'I thought she didn't love him,' he began. Helen's act had not only driven the shadows from Nathan, she had managed to confound the Shadow Master himself.

her to fly away and develop a career in art, but then little had he known that he would not be around to make that possible. She only became aware that something was different when, still absorbed in her own thoughts, it dawned on her that the bar had grown silent. In the act of pulling a pint, she raised her eyes and there, framed in the doorway, was one of the most startlingly beautiful men she had ever seen in her life. Tall, windswept dark hair raked back

It was as if the story had been added to, so as not to disgust people too much.

We all assume that we have our tomorrows to look forward to, but we never truly know what's waiting just around the corner.

You never know when something is going to happen to change your life. You expect it to arrive with fanfare, like a wedding or a birth, but instead it comes in the most ordinary of circumstances. The

If you go down to the woods today, You're sure of a big surprise. If you go down to the woods today, You'd better go in disguise. For every bear that ever there was Will gather there for certain because Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.

It was as if Louisa May Alcott had decided to drop Jack the Ripper into the domestic circle of Little Women just to see what might happen.

I get home and there's a box on my front porch. My serotonin surges and Jeff Bezos is a rich man because he knows how much we all just love to get a present, even if it's a present we bought for ourselves.

one minute you are the victim of my evildoing (LOL)

Love is a book. You don't skip ahead. You let the story surprise you.

Your jaw drops and your mouth opens and then it closes and your eyes are wide and you are dazzled. You purr. "He says he's sorry when he's wrong and he lets me spend two hours looking at couches I don't need? Joe, are you for real?

Otherwise you might have an old Irish slag knocking at your door in the wee hours.

Joe, is that you? Wow! Mary Kay, what a surprise! Do you want to go fuck in the bathroom?

Jonathan looked surprised, but Flaccus did not seem to notice. He was staring at the bronze charm that Flavia was absent-mindedly fingering. When she saw the direction of his gaze she blushed furiously and dropped the amulet back under the neck of her tunic. And for the first time in a week, Gaius Valerius Flaccus smiled at her.