Quotes about Surprise

Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?

He who sleeps in the raw, is in for a nude awakening.

The day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

When life throws you lemons, make orange juice. It will leave them wondering how the hell you did that.

I have a present for you, but I need to borrow your arms for wrapping paper.

Thou hast showed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

The robbers jumped into the road and tackled the traveler.

Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life. The object can be started this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck.

Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.

Thinking of the dismissal by Leicester, the first thing that comes to mind is a sense of surprise even more than of bitterness.

Pick the one thing that you've really been putting off, that seems too big or too scary or too whatever, and do it this week. You might be very pleasantly surprised.

but I still held my breath waiting for Brünnhilde to rise up out of the pyre at the end. And then, instead of a beautiful maiden emerging from the flames, there rose up a great fat