Quotes About Surprise

Something always turned up. That was Tom's philosophy.

Henry, for heaven's sake! You can't propose when I'm fainting!

She had got herself dressed before I had asked her to!

The truth, however, was stranger still.

Vittoria slipped off her robe. 'You've never been to bed with a yoga master, have you?

Neutrinos have mass? I didn't even know they were Catholic! Robert to Vittoria

Concealed within those pages, there hides a wondrous secret.

Robert Langdon stood frozen in the doorway of the National Statuary Hall and studied the startling scene before him.

Fate was a cruel and unpredictable mistress

As the old adage goes: 'Men plan, and God laughs.'

when the pod door hissed open.

Christ!" Ferris said, recoiling. "What the hell is that?!" "Long story," Langdon replied. "I'll explain on the way.

like corks. To Langdon's surprise, dozens of gondolas were making this same crossing. Their slender hulls—at nearly forty feet in length and almost fourteen hundred pounds—appeared remarkably stable in the rough waters. Each vessel was piloted by a sure-footed gondolier

Marta le flaquearon las piernas. Esa mañana había oído en las noticias que un alto cargo municipal no identificado había muerto la noche anterior, pero no se le había ocurrido que pudiera ser Ignazio.

By emphasizing its screening procedures, instead of its training, management rarely experiences that pleasant surprise of watching a leader emerge from an unlikely recruit.

I guess I always thought it would be bigger, when a terrible thing happened. Didn't you think so? Doesn't it seem like houses ought to be caving in, and lightning and thunder, and people tearing their hair in the street? I never - I never thought it would be this small, did you?

He was surprised at how useless his mind was.

sometimes life more closely resembled improvisational comedy than strategic planning.

Suddenly a scream froze her in her tracks. It

Just as well," he said. "We have one deus ex machina too many as it is.

There are days when I think I don't believe anymore. When I think I've grown too old for miracles. And that's right when another seems to happen.

I've learned enough this year to know that life may surprise you, but not usually in the ways you imagine.

For sudden joys, like grief's, confound at first.

yet all looked deeply concerned; and as we saw it apparently coming on, so every one looked on himself and his family as in the utmost danger. Were it possible to represent those times exactly to those that did not see them, and give the reader due ideas of the horror that everywhere presented itself, it must make just impressions upon their minds, and fill them with surprise. London might well be said to be all in tears.