Quotes About Surprise

These military devices, leading to victory, must not be divulged beforehand.

'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.

I'll never forget my wedding day... they threw vitamin pills

A wedding invitation is a gift subpoena.

I got caught kissing my dad's ex-girlfriend - at his wedding!

Personally, I think knees should be kept for the eighth or ninth date, or the wedding day. As a nice surprise you know? 'oh, my darling, you have knees! I never would have thought

Remember when you were eleven years old and you thought how great it would be to get your period? And then you got it? That's what planning a wedding is like.

I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.

You'd be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday

God lead us past the setting of the sun To wizard islands, of august surprise; God make our blunders wise.

Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.

What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.

Surprise is the beginning of wisdom.

When you know yourself you are surprised that what is the greatest thing for you is to love and to be loved.

Gabriel Oh come on Stan Not everything ends the way you think it should Besides, audiences love happy endings.

Gabriel Well...life is stranger than fiction sometimes.

The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.

answer to penetrate, but when it did she clapped a hand over her mouth.

What a thrill—My thumb instead of an onion.

Laura took them into her arms. The great fans of orange tracery seemed to her even more beautiful than the chrysanthemums, for they had been given to her, they were a surprise. She sniffed. They smelt of woods, of dark rustling woods like the wood to whose edge she came so often in the country of her autumn imagination.

Although she had chosen presents with such care for her relations, Laura was surprised when counter presents arrived from them. She had not thought of them as remembering her. (77)

She was heavier than he expected - women always are.

Marriage had always been something like the swirling rumours of a distant war; now, suddenly, the cannons were at my doorstep.

What will happen will happen, whether you know of it or not. Believe me, it is not always better to know." "Knowing must be better," Shigeru said. "Then no one can take you by surprise." "Someone will always take you by surprise, because no matter how much you know, you can never know everything.