Quotes About Surprise

As he waited for her, he braced himself for the sight of her, ready to turn out the light as soon as she reached her bed. But when Daniela came in, she wasn't wearing her nightgown. She returned from the bathroom in a bath towel. And then she locked the door behind her and dropped the towel. Drops of water glistened on her naked skin as if she'd been painted with diamonds. "Christ," he breathed.

He scissored his legs, pulled hers out from under her, and brought her to the ground. Then, on some stupid impulse, he rolled on top of her to immobilize her, like he would have with an enemy combatant. She stared up at him, wide-eyed, her long hair spread over the carpet of autumn leaves. She was soft against all his hard places. "Maybe I could get into this one-with-nature business.

Nothing woke up a man as quickly in the morning as a scorpion in his pants.

He wondered how a dog no bigger than a loaf of bread had accomplished so much damage in a matter of moments.

Trinidad Jones had never before realized how much her dog Noodles appreciated yodeling.

If you learn to trust and rely on God completely—even when things look hopeless—He will amaze you every time. The outcome may not be the outcome you pictured or how you would have done it yourself, but in the end it will work out better than you could have hoped for.

The last thing she saw was the bottom of a spade coming straight for her head.

Instead, he'd been so desperate to prove to her that he did indeed fulfill that final requirement of hers—that of being a heroic officer—that he'd been thoughtless. He'd been so eager to show her that he was indeed no deserter, no pirate, but an actual knight, indeed, that he'd sat here sweating in his finest dress uniform waiting for her to regain her senses. He had wanted to impress her. Surprise her. Instead, he had shocked her into oblivion.

One day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand.

Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised

For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.

Surprise tells us that we were expecting something other than what we got, even when we didn't know we were expecting anything at all.

Surprise is an emotion we feel when we encounter the unexpected

The essential requirement: Any extrinsic reward should be unexpected and offered only after the task is complete.

You never know when Rob will want to party.

You're trustworthy because you were never supposed to be here. You're a wild card, Stone, and possibly a very lucky accident.

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.

There are so many movies like this, where you thought you were smarter than the screen but the director was smarter than you, of course he's the one, of course it was a dream, of course she's dead, of course, it's hidden right there, of course it's the truth and you in your seat have failed to notice in the dark.

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up. Like a tie at a tag sale, some perfect thing in a crate of nothing, you were just there, uninvited, and now suddenly the party was over and you were all I wanted. I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.

John O'Donohue, captured the essence of this emergent flow when he said that he'd love to live like a river, carried by the surprise of his own unfolding.

The first surprise is that people's guesses are much more accurate than they would be by chance. I find this astonishing. A sense of cognitive ease is apparently generated by a very faint signal from the associative machine, which "knows" that the three words are coherent (share an association) long before the association is retrieved.

We were sufficiently similar to understand each other easily, and sufficiently different to surprise each other. We

I don't intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer.

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.