Quotes About Surprise

I guess… it was just a shocking event. We're not used to someone like him being President." Here, the student reveals an availability bias in which we expect future outcomes to look like what has gone before.

He asks the 80 students to respond based on their 'gut feeling'. Again, students are given five options, ranging from 'less than 1%' to 'above 40%'. About half of them believe the true answer is less than 5%, of which plenty go for the 'less than 1%' option. Only 1 in 6 get it right, picking the highest option: it turns out that the true figure is 41%. He invites those people – 13 in total – to stand up.

If we knew where every Soviet missile and tank was, there could be no surprise attacks or false "missile gaps" based on erroneous estimates, such as had underwritten Kennedy's arms-buildup in the Sixties. To print Peck's article would strike a blow against the war machine.

We move in time, but God operates in eternity. He sees the end from the beginning. He cannot be taken by surprise, for our past, present, and future are before Him and in His grip all at once. An emergency to you or me is an opportunity in the great mosaic

and when he catches me off guard and says 'i love you' i catch him off guard and say 'i need your help.

Dispel, v. It was the way you said, "I have something to tell you." I could feel the magic drain from the room.

I asked you what you wanted and you said you didn't want anything. And I told you I wasn't planning on giving you anything; I was planning on giving you something.

Here, she said. This is for you. I didn't really get you anything, I sputtered. I mean, I didn't know that you were going to be here, and-- Don't worry. It's your embarrassment at not having the thought that counts.

It's like, you know how sometimes you see a really sexy baby? Wait...

yesterday, n. You called to ask me when I was coming home, and when I reminded you that I wasn't coming home, you sounded so dissapointed that I decided to come home.

The most understandable thing in the world should be how minutes lead to hours, how hours lead to days, how days can make a year. And yet, this neat progression can still be surprising.

Jesus died for our sins, Noah says solemnly. What?!? I reply, choking back my thoughts. I was just seeing if you were listening.

This isn't even something I've feared, because I never knew it was a possibility.

Maybe that's what history is, you go from one I can't believe it the next. And sometimes the I can't believe its are good, and sometimes they're bad. But the sum total of positive ones always outweighs the negative ones.

New can be an emotion.

Human beings act very much like storms when there's something to say. Very rarely in nature does a deluge catch you by complete surprise. There are the signs before--the sky darkening, the wind picking up, the air smelling like rain even before a drop has hit.

There are some days you know ahead of time are going to be important, but most of the important ones end up catching you by surprise. the best thing to do is to treat all your days well. Then see what happens.

There is no way to describe how I feel. This is something I've never known. She has told me something I've never known.

This is what a small victory feels like. It feels like a little surprise and a lot of relief. It makes the past feel lighter and the future seem even lighter than that, if only for a moment. It feels like rightness winning. It feels like possibility.

i am so freaked out, you could pull a clown out of my ass and i wouldn't be at all surprised.

It's like being ready to pay full price for a top and then learning it's for sale. No - it's like being ready to pay full price for a top and then learning it's free!

Seeing it erases any premonitions I might have had, because even if I felt something was wrong, I never would have pictured this.

i thought i was going to be early, but of course by the time i get near where we're supposed to meet, i'm later than a pregnant girl's period.

rofl! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there a sec while I KICK YOUR ASS.)