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Quotes About Surprise

What was that you gave me to eat?" Winter panicked. A Filler Crisp," Clover said, his eyes seventy percent concerned and thirty percent mischievous.
~ Obert Skye
Clover] secretly hitched a ride with a nice German couple and their new baby...Clover appeared to the baby, so as to be a delightful, soothing surprise. Well, the child did like Clover. In fact, she held him and cooed. When the parents turned around to look at her and saw their child holding a furry, living creature, they needlessly panicked.
~ Obert Skye
I found a copy of Leven's birth certificate and was surprised to see his birth name listed as E. Leven Thumps. I assume the E. stands for Elton , and I have no idea why they didnt spell it out, but it's intresting to think that it took exactly eleven whacks or thumps to down the oldest tree.
~ Obert Skye
Anticipation is a fascinating thing. There's nothing like the anticipation you experience the morning before Christmas or your birthday. Of course, there can be great disappointment following that anticipation, like when on that same birthday you get a flamethrower that doesn't even work right.
~ Obert Skye
That's what makes life so fantastic," Rin continued. "Most don't know what tomorrow will bring, but there's always the guarantee of change.
~ Obert Skye
You are a good man," she had observed contentedly. "And it has been too long since I had this." He was surprised
~ Octavia E. Butler
God is Change And hidden within Change Is surprise, delight, Confusion, pain, Discovery, loss, Opportunity, and growth. As always, God exists To shape And to be shaped.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Reading these tales is like looking at a photograph of a child whom you only knew as an adult. In her eyes you can see the woman that you came to know much later—a face, not yet fully formed, that contains the promise of something that is now a part of you: the welcomed surprise of recognition in innocent eyes.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I startled it. No, I shocked it profoundly—and it transmitted to me the full impact of that shock. Its multisensory illusions felt more real than things that actually happened, and this was worse than an illusion. This was a sudden, swift cycling of its own intense surprise and fear. From me to it to me. Closed loop. I
~ Octavia E. Butler
DORO DISCOVERED THE WOMAN by accident when he went to see what was left of one of his seed villages.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
~ Ogden Nash
How confusing the beams from memory's lamp are;One day a bachelor, the next a grampa.What is the secret of the trick?How did I get so old so quick?
~ Ogden Nash
If some confectioners were willing To let the shape announce the filling, We'd encounter fewer assorted chocs, Bitten into and returned to the box.
~ Ogden Nash
Mitch True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend...
~ Unknown
God in His infinite wisdom Did not make me very wise— So when my actions are stupid They hardly take God by surprise
~ Unknown
Zapewne dziwi? si? tej pot??nej plamie organicznej materii, która nagle dokona?a inwazji z nieba na ich owadzi ?wiat.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
This question was so unexpected that I instantly let myself be carried away by memories. They began to sail past my eyes, and typically for memories, everything in them seemed better, finer, and happier than in reality. It's strange, but we didn't say a word.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
The man recover'd of the bite,The dog it was that died.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.
~ Olivia Munn
I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.
~ Orlando Bloom
The remarkable thing about the Bolshevik insurrection is that hardly any of the Bolshevik leaders had wanted it to happen until a few hours before it began.
~ Orlando Figes
I believe in everything that seems true to me right now. I just refuse to be surprised when some of those things I believe in now turn out to be false later.
~ Orson Scott Card
You are sure your enemy is stupid because he doesn't do things as you would do them. It will make you careless, and your enemy will surprise you.
~ Orson Scott Card
Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up
~ Orson Welles