#surprise

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. ↗

— George Will

#being #constantly #either #nice #part

Twelve dead?” I said. “Jesus. ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#biblical #brief #humour #i #inspirational

God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#life #roller-coaster #surprises #life

Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#surprises #life

Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music. ↗

— John Sebastian

#bands #because #bunch #could #evidence

All this was new to me. Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move towards the unknown - even when we don't want to and we think we don't need to. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life #surprises #life

Chance is the nature of our universe. […] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#chaos #surprise #nature

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#god #heaven #his #low #may

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#difficulty #film #surprise

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#attention #changing #how #humor #involved