#surprise

They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#alive #being #chance #find #i

You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#hard #how #into #often #surprised

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#alert #american #attack #been #blessing

Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up? ↗

— Evangelista Torricelli

#being #being there #column #enough #enter

Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place. ↗

— Larry Wall

#far #first #going #i #more

Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist. ↗

— Auberon Waugh

#am #back #exist #i #i am

The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#become #day #every #every day #had

I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did. ↗

— Terri Windling

#desert #did #extent #girl #had

I like the serendipitous surprises of reality. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#like #reality #surprises

I'm dumbfounded, but nothing surprises me in this game. ↗

— Francis Lee

#game #i #me #nothing #surprises