Quotes About Surprise

revelation hit me like an ice-water enema.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

Life's stranger and more beautiful than I ever thought possible.

He looked like a man who'd invited himself to dinner only to discover that the special of the day was a plateful of shit.

Death is no surprise to an old man like me. Being able to take a regular crap, now, there is a surprise.

Out popped Paul Duffy, in plain clothes except for a state police windbreaker and a badge clipped to his belt. He looked at me - I think by now I had dropped the bat to my side, at least, though I must have looked ridiculous anyway - and he raised his eyebrows. 'Get back in the house, Babe Ruth.

Our villains always disappoint us. They never look the part.

I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring.

I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

What begins as a random walk often ends up taking you somewhere, somewhere that you later realise was exactly where you wanted to go.

It was a daylight waterfall of regret known to all addicts. It can't get worse, but it does. When the bottom arrives, the cold fact of it all, it is always a surprise. Over fiteen years, I had made a seemingly organic journey from pothead to party boy, from knockaround guy to friendless thug. At thirty-one, I was washed out of my profession, morally and physically corrupt, but I still had almost a year left in the Life. I wasn't done yet.

Hey, who let you in here?!

A traveler's most interesting meals tend to happen by surprise.

And then, one morning, you're startled to discover that you no longer feel this terrible burden. What a surprise to notice that the angst has disappeared. Why on that particular day? Why not later, or sooner? It's the totalitarian decision of our body.

Sous le coup de la colère on veut tout envoyer en l'air; et puis on aime encore, cela nous prend presque par surprise.

En ocasiones tenemos que actuar de forma sorprendente, derrapar y salirnos de lo cotidiano en cierto modo, para saber lo que el otro piensa realmente de nosotros.

For these 'future leaders' in the classroom, it is more important to understand the psychology of certainty. Often, we believe what we want to believe. Dan starts with an example of the 2016 Presidential Election in the United States. He asks the question: "Relative to what you expected to happen, how surprised were you when you learned that Trump had won the election?

The students are asked to rate their level of surprise on a five-point scale from 'not surprised at all' to 'beyond shock'. Many describe feelings of total shock and numbness: a large majority indicate some level of surprise. He asks them: "Why were you surprised?

Although history may therefore seem like a series of inevitable events, the actual future is seldom foreseen.

I felt like a kid at Santa Claus's funeral.

There are many problems with this argument. We'll start with the most obvious. The idea that our current ideals of freedom, equality and democracy are somehow products of the 'Western tradition' would in fact have come as an enormous surprise to someone like Voltaire

The one thing we can be confident of is that history is not over, and that wherever the most exciting new ideas of the next century come from, it will almost certainly be from someplace we don't expect.

I was walking down the street with a friend the other day and a guy with a gun jumps out of an alley and says "Stick 'em up." As I pull out my wallet, I figure, "Shouldn't be a total loss." So I pull out some money, turn to my friend and say, "Hey, Fred, here's that fifty bucks I owe you." The robber was so offended he took out a thousand dollars of his own money, forced Fred to lend it to me at gunpoint, and then took it back again.