Quotes About Surprise

The bad thing about having emotions is, you know, OH SHIT WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO ME.

Target Two's gray face went surprised, then furious. It was kind of funny. This was a point where if I was a human (ick) I might have laughed. I decided to go with my first inclination and kill the shit out of some ass-faced hostiles instead. I told the Targets, "Angry, then afraid, then dead. Is that the right order?

Expecting it and having it happen were two different things, something I learned the first time I got shot to pieces.

It looked like a clip from an action series, right before something drastic happened. Then something drastic happened.

Ugh, this was going to be fun, in the not at all fun sense.

In a voice soft and deep as night, she said, "Where is he?" Moon's breath caught in his chest. Leaving, he thought, turning for the door. He would have made it, but Stone was fast even as a groundling, and caught his wrist.

Fairly reasonable people often expected everyone they knew to be fairly reasonable too, and were shocked when this proved not to be the case.

Jade turned to Malachite, incredulous. "We're going to help them fight off a Fell flight." Malachite didn't take her gaze off the sky. "I am." A growl rose in Jade's throat. She shouldn't have been surprised. The bloodline resemblance between Moon and Malachite was particularly strong, though Moon couldn't see it. And you have five of them back home in the nurseries, she reminded herself.

Oh. Oh, shit.

They're coming this way, quickly!' 'I didn't really want to know that.

On the entertainment feed, this is what they call an "oh shit" moment.

The thing that surprised me is that nobody stared at us. Nobody even gave us a second look. The uniform, the pants, the long-sleeved T-shirt and jacket, covered all my inorganic parts. If they noticed the dataport in the back of my neck they must have thought I was an augmented human. We were just three more people making our way down the ring. It hit me that I was just as anonymous in a crowd of humans who didn't know each other as I was in my armor, in a group of other SecUnits.

The hostile that had just exploded up out of the ground had a really big mouth, so I felt I needed a really big gun.

Then in my skim of the news broadcast I hit an image. It was me. I didn't stop in my tracks because I have a lot of practice in not physically reacting to things no matter how much they shock or horrify me. I may have lost control of my expression for a second; I was used to always wearing a helmet and keeping it opaqued whenever possible.

Sometimes, when it feels as if life has veered irrevocably off track, the track shifts in ways we never could have imagined.

Bodies can show up anywhere.

I have never held coincidence in must esteem,' said Grannie Jane. 'It always disappoints as a plot device in a novel and even more so in real life.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

Aiden would have laughed. But obviously he had not found anything even

The hallmark of innovation is surprise. No surprise, nothing new. Nothing new, no interest. No interest, no value. Therefore, creating surprise is a crucial step in creating value through innovation.

If you can surprise your customer with something more than baseline satisfaction, you'll spark the kind of emotion that leads to loyalty.

Looking down I saw the cat Basket touching me with one of her paws. I hadn't seen her move, though she was a good six

Jack turned, and it was just as well he was looking at me rather than at the audience for never, I swear, did such utter amazement fill a man's face. He gobbled like a turkey cock, his eyes almost started from his head, his jaw fell open and he stepped back as though he had been pricked.

First one is astonished at the things one learns with comparative ease. Then one is appalled by the things one doesn't know.