Quotes about Surprise
What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
- GK Chesterton
If I don't know what will happen tomorrow, it could be wonderful.
- Gloria Steinem
That was all; but all their intercourse had been made up of just such inarticulate flashes, when they seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods…
- Edith Wharton
Pantagruel said to his men, "Gentlemen, I have made this prisoner believe that we will not assault them till to-morrow at noon, but my intention is that we charge them about the hour of the first sleep.
- Francois Rabelais
The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.
- Julian Casablancas
You never know what's going to happen in the NFL. That's probably the thing I've learned most - expect the unexpected and go from there.
- Ryan Fitzpatrick
There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.
- Holly Hunter
When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.
- Oscar Wilde
I would never say never. You never know what is going to happen.
- James Milner
What he sees often, he does not wonder at, even if he does not know why it is. If something happens which he has not seen before, he thinks it a prodigy.
- Cicero
Never sign a valentine with your own name.
- Charles Dickens
Oh Sairey, Sairey, little do we know wot lays afore us!
- Charles Dickens