Quotes About Surprise

Her ideas about reporters had been moulded by the cinema; it was a surprise to her to find that in real life they could be kind and helpful people with good manners.

Financial market data – specifically, movements in the prices of government bonds – strongly reinforce the impression that the war came as a surprise to the people who had the biggest incentive to anticipate it.

no man prepar'd for it; no man consider'd it would come like a Thief in the night, exactly as it happens in the case of death.'74

The Russian commander whose ship was torpedoed by SMS Emden off Penang on October 28, 1914, was certainly unprepared for the new age of global conflict. Only twelve rounds of ammunition were ready on deck; but there were sixty Chinese prostitutes below.

the unexpectedness of war

A girl wearing a red dress in a forest will be some strange vision of unexpected eroticism, but a girl wearing a red dress on a catwalk will be highly predictable.

First you will smile, and then you will cry -- don't say you haven't been warned.

Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.

In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.

I think that the point is that people rarely understand that nothing is ever exactly what you think it will be.

It was funny that you know someone for years but still discover something you never noticed before.

Richard..., Julie said, staring down at the open jewelry case in her hand. Inside was an ornate, heart-shaped locket supported by a gold chain. It's beautiful. But... why? I mean, what's the occasion? No occasion. I just saw it and, well... I liked it. Or rather, I thought of you and knew you should have it.

A surprise trigonometry quiz that everyone in class fails? Must be in the Lord's plan to give us challenges.

Even though he was here, she couldn't quite process it. She squeered her eyes shut before opening them again. Yep, still there. Amazing.

They're beautiful. How did you know I loved roses? I didn't, but I've never heard of a woman who didn't, so I took a chance. a

I think," she said, "that the point is that people rarely understand that nothing is ever exactly what you think it will be.

April never ceased to surprise....there were always a few glorious days, perfect days, when it seemed as thought anything were possible.

She was mysterious, and he liked mysteries. Mysteries always lead to surprises...

O?aran sam ?injenicom da ona uvijek pokazuje svoje osje?aje s djetinjom lako?om. Kad je tužna, pla?e; kad je vesela, smije se, i najviše voli kad je se iznenadi nekom lijepom gestom.

My brother came home from college with a Mountain Goats cassette and I was like, 'What is this?' The lyrics were crazy to me. I'd never heard anything like it.

I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross!

Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.

You think you're in another civilization, another time, and then you see antennas coming out of these hovels, and your mouth falls open when you see the descendants of the Incas shouting 'Columbo! Columbo!'

When I open my mouth and talk, sometimes people say they are amazed of my intellect. I don't know if that's because I truly speak in a way that people can understand or feel a certain way, or because they don't expect it. I don't know. That's something I am curious about.