Quotes About Surprise

Non smetto di stupirmi per come quest'arida vita abbia improvvisamente deciso di mostrarmi il suo seno prosperoso.

I. F. Stone had once called it an exciting paper to read because you never knew on what page you would find a page-one story)

CONFUSE the Google Street View car by running alongside it dressed as a house.

Tristram Shandy may perhaps go on a little longer, but we will not follow him. With all his drollery there is a sameness of extravagance which tires us. We have just a succession of Surprise, surprise, surprise.

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

Events don't actually occur as often as people predict they will. And this in turn is related to hindsight bias (the tendency to see past events as being more predictable than they were at the time), which I'll discuss shortly.

We are born in debt, owing the world a death. This is the shadow that darkens every cradle. Trauma is what happens when you catch a surprise glimpse of that darkness, the coming annihilation not only of the body and the mind but also, seemingly, of the world.

Punctuationally speaking, wonder is a period at the end of a statement we've long taken for granted, suddenly looking up and seeing the sinuous curve of a tall black hat on its head, and realizing it was a question mark all along.

If you have put your faith in Christ and have spent significant time in the Word of God, the tough times can be like a magnet that draws you to the Lord Jesus. Nothing is going to happen - ever - that will catch Jesus Christ by surprise. He is able to help His children work through anything, and not a single thing is going to happen in the future that can change that fact.

Oh my lord," Smiley exclaims. "We've got to roll her off of Billy before he smothers to death.

did someone drop the f bomb

The fucking deer just took the fucking elevator.

Aubrey was surprised by how quickly she'd begun to mentally disconnect from the infinite online distractions she'd used to seek. She had kicked the internet to the curb with a speed and conviction that surprised her, awakening as if from hypnosis and realizing what a prisoner of algorithm her thoughts had been. No coffee, no internet? Thank Christ.

Wait, Ed. Did you say she?" "You better believe it. Our hacker's a she!

N'est-ce pas ce qui est si beau dans la vie, le fait que nous ayons parfois l'occasion d'être stupéfaits ?

Surely the great thing about life is that every now and then it springs a surprise on us,

I tried to think of a good reason as to why I had a sex book down my pants, but my brain refused to work.

I had no idea this thing was televised. Boy, is my face red.

Good Gad, Weaver. That look upon your face is one of inspiration. I hardly know you any longer.

Have a heartattack!

The bad thing was, I could probably do that with a hard-enough fling. "I'm rotting?" "Well, you are a zombie," Mookie said. "So it's not like this is a gigantic surprise." "But . . .

I feel surpris'd at my own composure," he noted, "and am more disposed to impute it to despair than resignation.

God is mighty. God is caring. God is worthy of praise. God is loving. God is able. God is in control. Nothing takes God by surprise. Some sweet reminders to soak in before falling asleep tonight.

God is preparing his heroes; and when the opportunity comes, he can fit them into their places in a moment, and the world will wonder where they came from.