Quotes About Surprise

To me, the grounds for hope are simply that we don't know what will happen next, and that the unlikely and the unimaginable transpire quite regularly. And that the unofficial history of the world shows that dedicated individuals and popular movements can shape history and have, though how and when we might win and how long it takes is not predictable.

To me, the grounds for hope are simply that we don't know what will happen next, and that the unlikely and the unimaginable transpire quite regularly.

We inhabit, in ordinary daylight, a future that was unimaginably dark a few decades ago, when people found the end of the world easier to envision than the impending changes in everyday roles, thoughts, practices that not even the wildest science fiction anticipated. Perhaps we should not have adjusted to it so easily. It would be better if we were astonished every day.

The random, the unscreened, allows you to find what you don't know you are looking for, and you don't know a place until it surprises you. Walking is one way of maintaining a bulwark against this erosion of the mind, the body, the landscape, and the city, and every walker is a guard on patrol to protect ineffable.

Why, all of you," answered the other, surprised. "You don't want to stay out in the rain, do you?

OK.… A blue feather." He looked at me blankly. "Richard? A blue feather?

What'll be your biography? At that point, life seemed pretty bleak. Then (insert  your name) did a surprising thing...

Bekleneni ve uygun olan? ya?amak kolayd?r. Beklenmeyeni ya?ad???n?zda hayattan zevk almaya ba?lars?n?z.

Herk threw up the mouse, the hamburger he'd eaten for lunch, and some pasty glop that looked like tomato soup. He was just starting to ask his mother what was going on when she threw up. And there, in all that puke, that old dead mouse didn't look bad at all. It sure looked better than the rest of the stuff.

And how much was in this fabled wallet?" "About two hundred and fifty dollars." "Baldheaded Jaysus, and I bet you got it all in your pockets, too.

A sombrero fell out of the sky and landed on the main street of town in front of the mayor, his cousin, and a person out of work. The day was scrubbed clean by the desert air. The sky was blue. It was the blue of human eyes, waiting for something to happen. There was no reason for a sombrero to fall out of the sky. No airplane or helicopter was passing overhead and it was not a religious holiday.

The heart is something else. Nobody knows what's going to happen,' I said

She had a voice that made Pearl Harbor seem like a lullaby.

If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.

But, alas, nobody anticipated the United States Department of Homeland Security.

giving children something with which to surprise their parents is one of the greatest gifts a teacher can bestow.

In Australia the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle. I just didn't expect to end up with the chicken.

And one day you woke up and you found yourself in the very situation you said you would never ever be in, and you did not know what was most important to you anymore. (Sweethearts, 1986)

Lástima que no estemos expuestos a más momentos inesperados.

there is mystery everywhere, even in a vulgar, urine-scented, suburban depot such as this. You have only to let yourself in for it. You can never know what's coming next. Always there is the chance it will be—miraculous to say—something you want.

If we do not expect the unexpected we will not discover it, since it is not to be searched out and is difficult to apprehend. What

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. OVID

I discovered that when one follows the artist's eye one sees unexpected treasures in so many seemingly ordinary scenes.

Oh, my dear, love isn't always the coup de foudre --the lightning strike. Sometimes it happens quietly, so quietly you may not even notice.