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Quotes About Surprise

He found rabbit-fur-lined underpants
~ Neal Bascomb
It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service.
~ Neil Cavuto
Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.
~ Neil Simon
Out of the blue and into the black
~ Neil Young
Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.
~ Nelson DeMille
How you doing at 26 Fed?" "I'm growing and learning, meeting new challenges with confidence and enthusiasm while developing good work ethics and people skills." "I'm surprised they haven't fired your ass." "Me too.
~ Nelson DeMille
She laughed and unfastened her bra, unleashing her breasts like attack dogs
~ Unknown
there really is no such thing as 'the future', singular. There are only multiple, unforeseeable futures, which will never lose their capacity to take us by surprise.
~ Niall Ferguson
The world is more outlandish than some people's imaginations.
~ Niall Williams
Señoras señores: Por lo común los discursos de sobremesa Son buenos pero largos El mío será malo pero corto Cosa Que no debiera sorprender a nadie.
~ Nicanor Parra
You don't know what you're going to do in a crisis," said Frieda. "Until it happens.
~ Unknown
The hole was a couple of meters wide and two, two and a half meters deep. It was empty. No, there was something there. A heap of rolled-up rags? No... An animal? A dog? No... What was it? It was hairless... white... a leg... A leg! I jumped backwards and nearly tripped over. A leg? I took a deep breath and had a quick look down. It was a leg
~ Niccolo Ammaniti
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
little later, a message arrived for the waiting troops. It was all off!
~ Unknown
Even underwater they could hear him laughing.
~ Unknown
Rule number one in Spec Psyops: look like a winner all the time, Sergeant. Unless you need to look like a loser so you can surprise-punch your enemy right in the BALLS!
~ Unknown
Thought I found a snake in my garage. Turns out it was a bunch of spiders in a snake costume going to a party. Thank god. Hate real snakes.
~ Nick Swardson
Jack Daniels. Damn, she broke out the good stuff for him.
~ Nick Webb
Just as I thought I was beginning to know this world and understand it, it throws more magic at me." "What's life without magic? Turn your magic into a song, share it with others." "You know I can't sing." "A story, then.
~ Nicola Griffith
She was caught in what felt like a dream, one of those endless dreams that turned on itself, one she couldn't escape. It unfurled with dreadful lack of surprise. It had all happened before.
~ Nicola Griffith
She laid her hand briefly against Hild's cheek, which startled Hild so much she nearly knocked her cup over.
~ Nicola Griffith
I stood behind him for nearly a minute-close enough to smell the familar bitter hint of coffee grounds-before he jerked around and whipped off his shades.
~ Nicola Griffith
Wyrd never flowed along expected paths.
~ Nicola Griffith
I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.
~ Nicolas Cage