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Quotes About Surprise

Tako obi?no biva. Oni koje želimo da vidimo ne dolaze u ?asovima kad na njih mislimo i kad ih najviše o?ekujemo, a pojavljuju se u nekom trenutku kad smo mislima najdalje od njih. I našoj radosti zbog ponovnog vi?enja tada treba malo vremena da se digne s dna, gde je potisnuta, i pojavi na površini.
~ Ivo Andri?
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
~ J. B. Priestley
Though it always comes as a surprise to intellectuals, there are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to commit.
~ Unknown
When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.
~ J. J. Abrams
He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.
~ J. K. Rowling
Alas! Earwax!
~ J. K. Rowling
It's lucky it's dark. I haven't blushed so much since Madam Pomfrey told me she liked my new earmuffs.
~ J. K. Rowling
It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.
~ J. K. Rowling
Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
~ J. K. Rowling
Courage is found in unlikely places.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
To the confusion of our enemies.
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
Life can surprise us, though, in giving us the work we are here to do.
~ Dacher Keltner
Most of these centers had the same basic floor plan; but I was absolutely, one hundred percent unprepared to encounter a freaking swastika!
~ Unknown
You named a dog the size of Bigfoot Fluffy?
~ Unknown
I feel like I should apologize. I didn't want to like you, but I couldn't help it." "Really? I wanted to like you. Wow, you're like the meanest woman ever.
~ Unknown
We're like ninja party planners.
~ Unknown
Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it. Don't wait for it. Just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot black coffee.
~ Unknown
I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.
~ Dale Earnhardt
An extreme, rapid forcing may suddenly drive the climate system into some unanticipated, radically different state to which it is virtually impossible to adapt. Such a catastrophic climate surprise could occur through a changing climate setting off a series of positive feedbacks—for
~ Dale Jamieson
In the 1950s climate change was discussed in newspapers and popular magazines. Many will be surprised to learn that in 1965 climate change was mentioned by the president of the United States in a message to Congress.
~ Dale Jamieson
It was like sitting in a silent room waiting for someone very important someone for whom you have been waiting a long while and then suddenly hearing a knock on the door. For just a minute you hesitate wondering who it might be and what does he want and why did he come. For just a second you're scared because although you've waited for years you really never expected the knock.
~ Dalton Trumbo
Oh fug!' Lon cried, suddenly, awfully audible.
~ Dan Abnett
It starts raining main battle tanks.
~ Dan Abnett