Quotes About Surprise

When we reach the point we think is the lowest, life has an unsuspected wonder in store for us: life itself.

Imagining the worst has always been a great comfort to me. If there is turbulence there is an imminent crash. If she doesn't pick up the phone, she is fucking someone. If there is a lump it is a tumor. By thinking like this I protect myself from disappointment. And if anything other than the worst-case scenario unfolds, what a pleasant surprise!

The Saxon', he wrote, 'is the most ferocious of all foes. He comes upon you without warning;

it was news of the surprise match that triggered the rebellion

the ability to appear on the horizon without warning, rather than having to tack around the coast.

As she slowly came to, the princess, fascinated, gazed at the card, and this time her haggard eyes grew wide with astonishment. For upon the card, which until now had appeared immaculately white, letters were gradually becoming visible, and the princess read: "Fan-tô-mas!

This is not a very surprising story; but wait a minute; it's going to be.

But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.

You cannot be surprised at anything men do, they're such brutes.

But in exchange for what our imagination leads us to expect and we give ourselves so much futile trouble trying to find, life gives us something which we were very far from imagining.

Swann could at once detect in this story one of those fragments of literal truth which liars, when taken by surprise, console themselves by introducing into the composition of the falsehood which they have to invent, thinking that it can be safely incorporated, and will lend the whole story an air of verisimilitude.

But in compensation for what our imagination leaves us wanting and we give ourselves so much unnecessary trouble in trying to find, life does give us something which we were very far from imagining.

The towers of Heaven are filled With armed watch that render all access Impregnable,; oft on the bordering deep Encamp their legions or with obscure wing Scout far and wide into the realm of night, Scorning surprise.

Wherever we go in the mountains, or indeed in any of God's wild fields, we find more than we seek.

I would love to live Like a river flows Carried by the surprise Of its own unfolding - Fluent

Life is incredibly contingent and unexpected.

T. Cluck, the head rooster, had just made a shocking revelation.

My invariable criterion for whether a poem deserved to be included in these pages was this: that it should be able to surprise and delight the common reader. Every page should be a source of pleasure and discovery.

We ain't in California no more," Pilate said. "Every fuckin' body up here's got a gun. Even that old lady in the hamburger shop, shot Michelle.

Shrake asked. "I'm sweating like a blind lesbian in a sushi bar.

rang the doorbell, heard a thump, and

First goddamn chicken we've had to count, and I'm counting the sonofabitch

Like Ward Cleaver finding out that June had

Green shook her head: "She's a smart woman. I'd be surprised if she was involved. But . . . and I say but . . . she's obviously a sociopath. It wouldn't bother her that people died to get her into the Senate. It would bother her that she could go to prison for it. She's made that calculation, too. That's why she gets so angry when she sees you.