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Quotes About Surprise

To destroy the institution is not to abolish motherhood. It is to release the creation and sustenance of life into the same realm of decision, struggle, surprise, imagination, and conscious intelligence, as any other difficult, but freely chosen work.
~ Adrienne Rich
in a curious and unanticipated way, we really do welcome the birth of our child. There
~ Adrienne Rich
Who ever would have thought that I'd be running a marathon? Certainly not me, but it's amazing where life leads you if you're willing to live passionately!
~ Kate Gosselin
No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
It was crazy to say that I have the guidance of Paul Heyman out of all these people. Eight-year-old real me is like, is this real life?
~ Zelina Vega
I think we were all honestly very surprised at how the car community took it all and how often it is that people will walk up to me and tell me 'your brother's the reason I'm into cars.' I didn't have a grasp of that. And I know Paul didn't.
~ Cody Walker
I remember having a feeling like, 'I can't believe this is happening!' Two years ago I was auditioning for The Disney Channel, and now Paul Rudd is saying, 'Hey man, congratulations on your Emmy nomination!'
~ Max Greenfield
Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
~ William Bennett
I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.
~ Adam McKay
By all means, let someone else have Pearl Harbor.
~ Charles A. Lockwood
He looks about as happy as a penguin in a microwave.
~ Sid Waddell
I've always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.
~ Dita Von Teese
When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'
~ Wayne Rooney
I had no idea what to expect when we did Ladies' Night. I didn't think it was going to get nominated for a Grammy. I didn't know that we would have to perform on the MTV Awards show.
~ Angie Martinez
Once when we performed at a festival there were between 50, 000 and 60, 000 people in the audience we were so shocked. It was crazy.
~ Moa Kikuchi
I have always had an interest in performers who play against the most obvious of expectations and are able to find something secret, something withheld, and some level of restraint.
~ Todd Haynes
Performing for the Dalai Lama - those are words I never imagined coming out of my mouth.
~ Joe Nichols
For me personally, my favourite part of performing is just going in the crowd and doing crazy things that they never expected to see. Challenging myself to do new things that I never expected to do. That's the biggest thing for me.
~ Tory Lanez
I play characters. I don't think I really have a persona per se. I don't play the same guy every time. I show up, you don't know what I'm gonna do. I like it that way. I've intentionally tried to do it that way. I think that's what's interesting.
~ Laurence Fishburne
Niekas taip neskatina žmogaus veikti, kaip troškimas nustebinti tuos, kurie juo abejoja.
~ Piers Paul Read
Out of Africa, there is always something new.
~ Pliny the Elder
Are you out of your candy wrapper?
~ Polly Shulman
Knowledge has a trick of paying off in unexpected ways.
~ Poul Anderson
When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
~ Prince Philip