Quotes about Surprise

If, any sunny forenoon, she had spread a little pair of wings and flown away before my eyes, I don't think I should have regarded it as much more than I had had reason to expect.

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.

Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.

The loveliest gifts sometimes come wrapped in the ugliest paper.

A book is a present that you can open again and again

I really don't see what is so romantic about proposing. One may be accepted - one usually is, I believe - and then the excitement is ended. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

We could of brought weeners, she said. Yeah. Marshmallers. You wouldnt think a car would burn like that.

Whoever you are holding me now in hand, Without one thing all will be useless, I give you fair warning before you attempt me further, I am not what you supposed, but far different. -from Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand

Here on the river I have known peace and beauty such as I never knew in any other place. There is always work here that I need to be doing and I have many worries, for life on the edge seems always threatening to go over the edge. But I am always surprised, when I look back on times here that I know to have been laborious or worrisome or sad, to discover that they were never out of the presence of peace and beauty, for here I have been always in the world itself.

God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire.

We shouldn't be surprised when suffering and difficulty come our way; in fact, we should probably be surprised when they don't.

Does it surprise you that God presents himself as a model for human community?