Quotes About Surprise

Unexpected situations are often matched by unexpected virtues, are they not?

At day's end, he was sitting on his front porch when a member of the Klan walked up the steps of a house nearby and plopped into a chair on the veranda. Once the mask was off, the boy could see that the now visible congregant of the Invisible Empire was his neighbor, Mrs. Crousore.

It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is overcertain of his plot. —PAUL THEROUX, To the Ends of the Earth

It is fatal to know too much at the outset. Boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as the novelist who is over certain of his plot." –Paul Theroux

Sé cuánto os repatea ver cómo me lo paso, pero ¿a que no adivináis dónde estoy?».

The realization that the best way to get things done is to let go. Here's the thing. . . . It's often the case that people want to help you or work with you. But they can't if you insist on holding on to tight control. The more you let go, the more people will surprise you.

the best thing to do is give people questions they're not expecting.

Conflict with others is one of God's mysterious, counterintuitive ways of rescuing us from ourselves. God uses it to get us where he wants to take us before we die. Because we don't usually think that trials can be used in such a positive way, this truth catches us by surprise. But it shouldn't.

We shouldn't be surprised when suffering and difficulty come our way; in fact, we should probably be surprised when they don't.

For many Europeans and Americans, events in the 2010s—the rise of antidemocratic politics, the Russian turn against Europe and invasion of Ukraine, the Brexit referendum, the Trump election—came as a surprise.

People never cease to amaze me.

One lion thinks it's just hilarious to tackle us. He's very funny about it... and we always know when it will happen.

Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.

Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.

Aber mehr denn je bin ich überzeugt, dass nichts von vornherein auszuschliessen ist; dass sich immer Wertvolles - Menschen der Dinge - gerade an den unerwartetsten Orten und in den unvorhergesehensten Situationen finden lässt.

Immediately he surprised her, for she like the way he kissed, like a man who wanted to swallow life.

His answer caught me by surprise. I'd never realized there was an age limit for spankings. This was the best news I'd heard in a long time.

Playing Doctor Who came as a great surprise to me. I had no idea that I would enjoy it so much. All that was required of me was to be able to speak complete gobbledygook with conviction.

Once a man next to me found the handle of a radiator in his mashed potato; he said nothing, merely moving it to the side of his plate after sucking the mashed potato off it first. Nobody else said anything either. If the truth was known several of us were probably jealous.

What is humor, de Bono asks, but the sudden restructuring of existing patterns? If

On my sixteenth birthday my parents tried to surprise me with a car, but they missed.

I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurred to me that anything like this could have been possible. I didn't have any such aspirations. And I still can't believe my good fortune.

It never occurred to me that it would be a big hit internationally and forever.

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.