Quotes About Surprise

But there are times you pull something out of the water for which there's no accounting, the only remnant of a story whose contours are a mystery.

ejército recuerda a la del agua», explica Sun Tzu. Si atacas donde tu enemigo menos lo espera, es decir, «si evitas su fuerza y atacas su punto débil, entonces, como le ocurre al agua, nada se te opondrá».

If we did all the things we were capable of doing," he once said, "we would literally astound ourselves.

My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times.

Okay, that so did me in. Mr. Rock being all emotional? Expressing his feelings?" p. 12

My son is not that emotional. He thought my trip to India is just another conference, But when he hearing about my visit on TV, he too got moved.

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.

If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.

But considering that I walked in expecting no complexity at all, let alone the visual wonderments, "Snow White and the Huntsman" is a considerable experience.

Waxing was an interesting experience. Not quite as painful as I expected.

I really didn't know who Dario [Argento] was. I didn't know who Harvey Keitel was. It was a wonderful experience, though.

I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it.

experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.

In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part.

Somewhere in the heart of experience there is an order and a coherence which we might purprise if we were attentive enough, loving enough, or patient enough.

It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.

I had an experience that probably is shared by many parents. When my daughter was born, I felt viscerally connected to generations before and after me in a way that took me by surprise.

I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.

The marvelous thing about lack of planning is that failure comes as a complete and utter surprise.

But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.

Sometimes, if you have faith in people they'll surprise you. Mom and Dad taught me that. Risk is the price of believing most people want to be good.

Maybe she laughs and maybe she cries, and maybe you would be surprised at everything she keeps inside.

Giving your friend the 'What the f*ck is this?' look during a test.