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Quotes About Surprise

No fundo, Ana sempre tivera necessidade de sentir a raiz firme das coisas. E isso um lar perplexamente lhe dera. Por caminhos tortos, viera a cair num destino de mulher, com a surpresa de nele caber como se o tivesse inventado
~ Clarice Lispector
Esperar menos não significa desistir. Antes se surpreender, do que se decepcionar.
~ Clarice Lispector
That's it," Darryl cried, seemingly flabbergasted.
~ Clifford Irving
When the cover was lifted to reveal nothing but a heaped plate of pineapple chunks, however, there were people in the audience who could take no more.
~ Clive James
She was constantly surprising him. Siri went over and held up Mr. A's hand. All the fingertips were purple: triplicate syndrome.
~ Unknown
If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.
~ Heraclitus
Unless you expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is hidden and thickly tangled.
~ Heraclitus
He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored.
~ Heraclitus
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
~ Herbert Spencer
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
~ Unknown
Not to say surprise no. Too smooth by half I've always thought him.
~ Unknown
Sometimes things acquire a tenderness, a monstrous tenderness we don't expect from them.
~ Herta Muller
I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.
~ Heywood Broun
As if she had summoned them, a flurry of stones flew out of the darkness, striking his mail, pinging off his helm. One hit his unprotected leg and he yelped and clutched it. That was a mistake. The second barrage was entirely directed at his legs.
~ Hilari Bell
Cogswhallop glanced skeptically at the complex runes. "Are you sure this'll work, gen'ral?" "Of course I'm sure-" Ping. The silvery note echoed in the cramped room. Makenna felt her face turn scarlet.
~ Hilari Bell
In the end, Dr Bhattacharya had said, the heart fails without warning.
~ Hilary Mantel
I tell you, Cromwell, you've got face, coming here." "My lord — you sent for me." "Did I?" Norfolk looks alarmed. "It's come to that?
~ Hilary Mantel
The door was flung open. Maurice Duplay filled it; energetic master, shirt- sleeves rolled up. He threw out his arms, the good Jacobin Duplay, and formed a sentence totally original, something which had never been uttered in the history of the world: "Camille, you have a son, and your wife is very well, and is asking you to be at home, right now.
~ Hilary Mantel
Darling Daddy, This is Rose. So flames went all up the kitchen wall. Saffron called the fire brigade and the police came too to see if it was a trick and the police woman said to Saffron Here You Are Again because of when I got lost having my glasses checked. But I was with Tom whose grandmother is a witch on top of the highest place in town. Love, Rose.
~ Hilary McKay
Sarah's father's shoulders began to shake. Tears poured down his cheeks. He took first one hand, and then the other, off the steering wheel to mop his eyes. He drove, weeping and groaning, at 140 kilometres an hour. Sarah's mother would not look at him. Sarah and Saffron stared, dumbstruck. Then it gradually dawned on them that he was laughing.
~ Hilary McKay
I took 'P.S. I Love You' thinking it was going to be a little funny, and I ended up crying every day on that film.
~ Hilary Swank
If you come back I'll show you a secret," said Heinz.
~ Unknown
Well, what do you know? Fakespeare!
~ Unknown
Love is kind of like a car crash... you never see it coming.
~ Unknown