Quotes About Surprise

She was having an outburst with no advance warning.

I'd underestimated him. I assumed anyone who started out gut-punching you in an elevator couldn't have all that much else in his arsenal. For instance, I had no idea he could smile, let alone at such an inappropriate time.

If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.

She was not crying Which surprised me very much But I understand now That she had found places For her melancholy That were behind more masks Than only her eyes

I opened the coffin. I was surprised again, although again I shouldn't have been. I was surprised that Dad wasn't there. In my brain I knew he wouldn't be, obviously, but I guess my heart believed something else. Or maybe I was surprised by incredibly empty it was. I felt like I was looking into the dictionary definition of emptiness.

At first I thought I'd walked into a tree, but then that tree became a person, who was also recovering on the ground, and then I saw that it was her and she saw that it was me...

Our images of the bitter fighting among the hedgerows of Normandy do not include booby-trapped wine bottles or French babies sitting on the road atop command-detonated mines. Only 3 to 4 percent of American casualties in World War II and Korea were from booby traps, while 11 percent of the deaths and 17 percent of the injuries in Vietnam were those from these lowest-echelon attacks of surprise and deception. American soldiers literally felt tortured by their Vietnamese enemy.

I was in the utmost astonishment, and roared so loud that they all ran back in a fright; and some of them, as I was afterwards told, were hurt with the falls they got by leaping from my sides upon the ground. However, they soon returned

Qual não foi o meu espanto quando enxerguei uma figurinha humana que pouco mais teria de seis polegadas, empunhando um arco e uma flecha, e com uma aljava às costas!

The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .

no esperar de nosotros ni de nuestras parejas ser los mismos, sino aceptar la sorpresa de quién es el otro que tengo al lado hoy, y sorprendernos a nosotros mismos siendo otros todo el tiempo.

Seguramente hay un rumbo posiblemente y de muchas maneras personal y único. Posiblemente haya un rumbo seguramente y de muchas maneras el mismo para todos. Hay un rumbo seguro y de alguna manera posible. De manera que habrá que encontrar ese rumbo y empezar a recorrerlo.Y posiblemente habrá que arrancar solo y sorprenderse al encontrar, más adelante en el camino, a todos los que seguramente van en la misma dirección.

It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death.

T]he aesthetic act cannot be carried out without some element of astonishment, and that to be astonished by rote is difficult.

Temí que no quedara una sola cosa capaz de sorprenderme, temí que no me abandonara jamás la impresión de volver. Felizmente, al cabo de unas noches de insomnio me trabajó otra vez el olvido.

I feared that there would not be a single thing left capable of surprising me, I feared that the impression of returning would never leave me. Happily, after a few sleepless nights, forgetfulness worked on me again.

It was all born suddenly, in a tempestuous wind. Eagles awoke out of turkey eggs.

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

give a New York friend a panic attack, turn up unannounced on a Wednesday and suggest going for a drink. It is easier to organize five guys to raise a flag on Iwo Jima than to get mates out for movie and dinner. Surprise parties are such fun, but require e-mail "save the date" warnings. And everyone needs to know how to dress.

To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it? Say it's just what you wanted? Because it's yours- because we love you.

They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.

One advantage of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Non apibus dubitandem est. (You never can tell with bees.) ~ Winnie ille Pu