Quotes About Surprise

The girl turned to him and to his surprise, she smiled faintly. 'She's beautiful'.

Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.

Especially when she thought it was chicken.

Kadang keadaan ternyata tidak seburuk yang disangka. Kadang-kadang hal buruk yang disangka akan datang malah tidak datang sama sekali. Kalian hanya harus menunggu dan melihat keadaan.

It was with a shock of pitying surprise that she realized, in later years, that the grown-ups had missed the paradise which the children found so easily.

I had half a feeling that he might suddenly savage me in a bear hug under glass arcade. When he was disgruntled, you never knew how he would vent it.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise... surprise and fear... fear and surprise... Our two weapons are fear and surprise... and ruthless efficiency.... Our three weapons are fear, and surprise, and ruthless efficiency... and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope... Our four... no... Amongst our weapons... Amongst our weaponry... are such elements as fear, surprise... I'll come in again.

Bring out... The Comfy Chair!!!!

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition...

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.

I'm looking over a four-leaf cloverThat I overlooked before.

If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman's behind!

God will always have the final laugh on us.

The best time to give is when no one is expecting anything from you. Give when others don't ask you to.

You can imagine or pretend to know your partner, but you will still be surprised at the end of the day.

Anthony remarked with some surprise that the press "had nothing very dreadful to say against you." The older woman knew full well what newspapers could do. She had endured years of humiliation, described as "an ungainly hermaphrodite… with an ugly face and shrill voice." Eggs were thrown at her when she tried to speak, and she was hung in effigy three times. Recently she had been called a leader "of the delirium of unreason known as the Woman's Cause.

Art at its best draws attention not only to the way things are but also to the way things will be, when the earth is filled with the knowledge of G-D as the waters cover the sea. That remains a surprising hope, and perhaps it will be the artists who are best at conveying both the hope and the surprise.

Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend "who is still liable to surprise us.

When the women went to the tomb they met someone else and in the half light they thought it was Jesus himself. Answer: they would have noticed soon enough.

Jesus's message to his contemporaries, and the church's message about Jesus, never fit what people expect. Often enough, they don't fit what the church itself expects.

The ultimate future hope remains a surprise, partly because at present we only have images and metaphors for it, leaving us to guess that the reality will be far greater, and more surprising, still.

Whoever heard of a crucified Messiah?

The resurrection isn't just a surprise happy ending for one person; it is instead the turning point for everything else. It is the point at which all the old promises come true at last: the promises of David's unshakable kingdom; the promises of Israel's return from the greatest exile of them all; and behind that again, quite explicit in Matthew, Luke, and John, the promise that all the nations will now be blessed through the seed of Abraham. If

Whenever God does something new, he involves people – often unlikely people, frequently surprised and alarmed people. He asks them to trust him in a new way, to put aside their natural reactions, to listen humbly for a fresh word and to act on it without knowing exactly how it's going to work out.