Unpleasant Surprise Quotes

#1. I pulled out my phone and thought about calling someone, but who was there to call? And what would I even say? It was just the kind of unpleasant surprise you had to share with someone, but I didn't have anybody to share it with.

Emma Mills

#2. At the end of the day, everyone wants to feel loved, appreciated and respected.

Sadie Calvano

#3. Life rarely develops as we expect. People surprise us, sometimes in unpleasant ways. They don't always react as we hope they will or want them to.

A.A. Aguirre

#4. Sometimes it's not until you see your shackles that you see your dreams. The soul must first be caged before it can be set free.

Ken Ilgunas

#5. Better to keep the unhappy, mad, bad, unpleasant words separate, where you can watch them and make sure they don't surprise you when you're not expecting them

Jennifer Niven

#6. Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.

Barry N. Malzberg

#7. It's quite hard to stay calm and understanding when you see the same faces, the same mistakes made again and again.

Jojo Moyes

#8. Two steps to accept the pleasant: surprise & satisfaction.

Four steps to accept the unpleasant: denial, anger, sadness & submission.

Self

#9. It starts at midnight.

Suzanne Collins

#10. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

Oscar Wilde

#11. I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.

Patrick Ness

#12. Fear spread through the house.

Carla H. Krueger

#13. Where are the blossoms of those summers!-fallen, one by one: so all of my family departed, each in his turn, to the land of the spirits.

James Fenimore Cooper

#14. As bellhop closes the door behind him, you are left with a feeling of security and relaxation. Your mind starts to drift, and you wonder to yourself, who else has stayed in this room?

Ann Benjamin

#15. There were two unpleasant surprises [about Washington]. One was the inertia of Congress, the length of time it takes to get a complicated piece of legislation through ... and the other was the irresponsibility of the press.

Jimmy Carter

#16. Designers and musicians are primed to keep thinking forward. Once an album or collection launches, you can only think about doing the next one.

Chris Benz