Quotes About Surprise

he expected to find Piglet warming his toes in front of his fire, but to his surprise he saw that the door was open, and the more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.

When life gives you lemons, make orange juice, and leave the world wondering how the hell you did it.

Gideon laughed and took his milkshake from the opened lid of the glove compartment.

Gideon resisted a strange urge to laugh. Looks like homicide. What did he think—that a heart attack had blown away half the man's head?

Her bone-white face lit up like she was at a surprise party. "Hear that, Dwyer? He called me ma'am! Stay forever if you want, big guy. Teach my son a thing or two about manners." "He's good people," Kyle said. "Always has been." It was the last thing I wanted to hear at that moment. "I'm not always good," I shot back. "Ooooo, polite and a bad boy," Gina cooed. "Watch out, ladies.

I see the power of music to connect cultures. I see it when I stand on a stage at a bluegrass festival … and I bust out into a song in Chinese, and everybody's eyes just pop wide open.

Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.

I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again. When I see an act of evil I don't accomodate, I don't accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere. I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.

In America, my initial impression was that death or the possibility of it always seemed to come as a surprise, as if we took it for granted that we were immortal, and that death was just an option.

What can one do but go on? She miscarries again. When she recovers, she looks to cast blame: might this be the doing of the spirit in the cellar? Could it be that spiteful? She descends to the cellar and sits on an empty urn, sniffing the air, taking her soundings. To her surprise she feels the spirit commiserate with her. She comes away mollified.

If you expect terrible things…then they don't surprise you, and all good things are like wonderful gifts.

We came to fight, but find only feasts.

I hadn't expected much from the place, but I hadn't realized how ugly it would be, either. We

There was less than I'd expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept in the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled 'DEAD SPIDERS.' As if I hadn't always known it was there. As if I wouldn't want to look at dead spiders.

I've been punched by a vampire, an Indian girl, and a panda... I should be a video game.

Reality, in truth is … what is the word? Reality is ironic .

Did you just hit on her by calling her your cousin?" asks Sadie. "'Cause, damn!

I kicked, shouted an obscene word, got another faceful of goo for my troubles, and did the only thing left available to me. I started to laugh. This was a stupid way to die, all right. But also a god damned funny one.

Ko samo nogom kro?i sa pravoga puta, na?i ?e se neo?ekivano na drugim stazama koje ?e ga vu?i sve niže i niže.

Theano: Always expecting the worst, you are. Danae: If you expect terrible things, then they don't surprise you, and all good things are like wonderful gifts.

There are certain truths which stand out so openly on the roadsides of life, as it were, that every passer-by may see them. Yet, because of their obviousness, the general run of people disregard such truths or at least they do not make them the object of any concious knowledge. People are so bliend to some of the simplest facts in everyday life that they are highly surprised when somebody calls attention to what everybody ought to know.

A bullet in the head will fix an incipient asthma attack every time.

Life is like a movie, you never know what happens at the end.

It's like getting the best Christmas gift ever, but Santa decided to kick the crap out of you before you unwrapped it.