Quotes About Surprise

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

When I think about a mid-table club like Everton spending £150 million during the summer, I am lost for words.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

There are people who think that Malina and I are married. We never considered that we might be married, that such a possibility could exist, nor even the idea that other people might think that we were married. For the longest time it never crossed our minds that, like other people, we appear as man and wife wherever we go. This was a complete surprise for us, but we had no idea what to make of it. We laughed a lot.

The best things in life are unexpected – because there were no expectations. ~ Eli Khamarov

People are almost never what you think. Don't even try to figure them out. Something Andy once read in a magazine. Turns out it's true.

And then you find yourself living what you never imagined. ~ Author Unknown

Since this is Russia, such things are to be expected, though of course, neither he nor anyone else expected it.

Ellijay, hadn't she known

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans. —Woody Allen

May you get to Heaven a half hour before the Devil knows you're dead.

if your boat is heading upstream toward some intended destination on a pre-planned itinerary, you seldom bother to linger with the surprise that waits around the next bend. You never experience the beauty of just letting it happen.

When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

We took a bowl each and started eating. He went back into the little room, and by the time he returned to the table with his own bowl of food to eat with us, we had already finished. He was shocked and looked around to see if we had done something else with the food.

I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.

Just wait until the girls hear about this.

Speak of the devil and he appears.

So began their love, the boy happy and amazed, she happy and not surprised at all (nothing happens by chance to girls). It was the love so long awaited by Cosimo and which had now inexplicably arrived, and so lovely that he could not imagine how he had even thought it lovely before. And the thing newest to him was that it was so simple, and the boy at that moment thought it must be like that always.

I expect readers to read in my books something I didn't know, but I can expect it only from those who expect to read something they didn't know.

You hope to always to encounter true newness, which, having been new once, will continue to be so.

What does my daughter have to do with crocodiles?

where the foreigner hesitating between two women always encounters a third,

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Only free men can change their minds and be surprised; and while no men are completely free, some are freer than others.