quotes about Unexpected
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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
-- Ada LeversonSource : Ada Leverson (1907). “The Twelfth Hour”
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The swine who stole my dog doesn't realize what he did to me!
-- Adolf Hitler -
When you see beauty all around you, beauty will seek and find you, even in the most unexpected places.
-- Alberto VilloldoSource : FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Jan 19, 2015
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I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.
-- Alexander Alekhine -
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
-- Alexander Smith -
It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.
-- Alice Duer Miller -
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Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.
-- Alice James -
All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be.
-- Allen Lacy -
You are an artist when you make someone feel something deep and unexpected.
-- Amanda Palmer -
Experiment! Meet new people. That’s better than any college education . . . By adventuring; about, you become accustomed to the unexpected. The unexpected then becomes what it really is . . . the inevitable.
-- Amelia Earhart -
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So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.
-- Anna Godbersen -
I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets.
-- Anna Sui -
Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.
-- Antonio Damasio -
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A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
-- Arnold Bennett -
A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.
-- Asger Jorn -
You can't make a recipe for something as complicated as surgery. Instead, you can make a recipe for how to have a team that's prepared for the unexpected.
-- Atul Gawande -
There are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown. It is in the nature of the discovery that it can not be planned or programmed. On the contrary it consists of surprises and appears many times in the most unexpected places.
-- Bengt I. Samuelsson -
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Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.
-- Berenice Abbott -
Joanna Priestley’s amazing body of animated films have deservedly earned their place in the pantheon of contemporary international animators. Inventively visioned, superbly crafted, and rich with insight into the physical and spiritual dilemmas that confront us all, each new work provides an unexpected pleasure.
-- Bill Foster -
For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.
-- Bo Burnham -
The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected.
-- Bob Barker -
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Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?
-- Bob Dylan -
Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected.
-- Brad Bird -
I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!
-- Brandon Sanderson -
Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.
-- Brian Aldiss -
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The song Cant Look Back Now by the Weepies reminds me of the entire Life Unexpected experience.
-- Britt Robertson -
We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.
-- Carl Jung -
It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.
-- Carl Sagan -
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
-- Carl Sandburg -
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That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.
-- Charles KennedySource : "Kennedy not ruling out his return", news.bbc.co.uk. June 22, 2006.
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The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.
-- Charles Webster Hawthorne -
We attempt to define a person, the most commonplace person we know, but he will not submit to bounds; some unexpected beauty of nature breaks out; we find he is not what we thought, and begin to suspect that every person exceeds our power of measurement.
-- Charlotte Mason -
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There was an unexpected freedom in ï¬nding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!
-- Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniSource : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2009). “The Palace of Illusions: A Novel”, p.342, Anchor
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There are some things we can control and others we simply cannot. And our ability to distinguish between them is critical to our happiness and wellbeing. Sometimes unexpected stuff will happen to us or around us. Our true power lies in our response.
-- Clifton Anderson -
The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.
-- Cynthia KenyonSource : "Cynthia Kenyon: 'The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected'". Interview with Catherine de Lange, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2013.
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Sometimes the things you’ve lost can be found again in unexpected places.
-- Daniel Handler -
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Often, I go and see films where I can see the beats coming. So, if I read something where I don't see the beats coming and it takes me somewhere unexpected, that's a great thing to build upon.
-- David Brooks -
Positively dealing with the unexpected by looking for solutions, not excuses, is the choice you need to make.
-- David Cottrell -
Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan.
-- David Dixon -
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A man cannot spend his life worrying about the unexpected.
-- David Gemmell -
If you want to minimize the possibility of unexpected breakthroughs, tell people they will receive no resources at all unless they spend the bulk of their time competing against each other to convince you they know in advance what they are going to discover.
-- David Graeber -
To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making a very unexpected circuit.
-- David Hume -
Embrace the unpredictable and unexpected. It is the path to the infinitely creative in you.
-- Deepak Chopra -
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Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.
-- E. M. Forster -
Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. String theory does so again because a point particle is replaced by a string, which is more spread out.
-- Edward Witten -
A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
-- Edwin Land -
Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.
-- Edwin Percy Whipple -
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The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.
-- Elias Canetti -
Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?
-- Elizabeth BibescoSource : Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
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Los Angeles survives on that which is unpredictable. The unexpected courses through its very veins.
-- Ellie KemperSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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There are no absolutes in relationships. You can't take anything for granted. You can count on absolutely nothing but the unexpected. You only get in trouble when you start thinking that you're some kind of exception to the rule.
-- Emily Giffin -
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The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.
-- Erin MorgensternSource : "The Night Circus". Book by Erin Morgenstern, September 13, 2011.
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Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.
-- Erin MorgensternSource : Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.173, Random House
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I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.
-- Ernest RutherfordSource : "Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-Century Physics". Book by Mauro Dardo, p. 69, 2004.
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As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.
-- Etty HillesumSource : Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.466, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
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Sometimes the unexpected happens when you don't expect a person to come up to expectations.
-- Evan Esar -
Keep putting out good. It will come back to you tenfold in unexpected ways.
-- Farrah Gray -
If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
-- Fay WeldonSource : Fay Weldon (2014). “Moon Over Minneapolis”, p.5, Head of Zeus
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Did You wrap yourself inside the unexpected so we might know that Love would go that far?
-- Francesca BattistelliSource : Song: Be Born In Me
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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
-- Francis Bacon -
Sometimes an unexpected chord change can be the difference between a good song and a great song.
-- Gary Talley -
Prepare for the unknown, unexpected and inconceivable . . . after 50 years of flying I'm still learning every time I fly.
-- Gene Cernan -
Discovering the unexpected is more important than confirming the known.
-- George E. P. Box -
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Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
-- George Soros -
In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.
-- Georges BraqueSource : "Le Monologue du Peintre". Book by George Charbonnier, 1959.
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Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.
-- H. P. Lovecraft -
When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.
-- Helen Thomas -
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Falling in love with him was completely unexpected. When you only see someone as a friend, you don’t expect anything else. There was definitely a moment when something quite magical happened and we both agree that it transformed our relationship.
-- Helena Bonham Carter -
It is not order only, but unexpected order, that has value.
-- Henri PoincareSource : Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.620, Modern Library
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man
-- Honore de Balzac -
Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
-- Iggy Pop -
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I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected.
-- Jacqueline Bisset -
There is a future which is predictable, programmed, scheduled, foreseeable. But there is a future, l'avenir (to come) which refers to someone who comes whose arrival is totally unexpected. For me, that is the real future. That which is totally unpredictable. The Other who comes without my being able to anticipate their arrival. So if there is a real future, beyond the other known future, it is l'avenir in that it is the coming of the Other when I am completely unable to foresee their arrival.
-- Jacques Derrida -
The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries.
-- James ElkinsSource : James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.5, Routledge
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Im not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.
-- James Purefoy -
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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
-- Jane Fonda -
A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.
-- Jaron LanierSource : Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.53, Vintage
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Making a movie is a weird combination of planning and the absolutely unexpected.
-- Jason Schwartzman -
There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.
-- Jason Silva -
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What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones.
-- Jean DubuffetSource : Jean Dubuffet, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (1993). “Jean Dubuffet 1943-1963: paintings, sculptures, assemblages : an exhibition”, Smithsonian Inst Pr
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And they lived happily (aside from a few normal disagreements, misunderstandings, pouts, silent treatments, and unexpected calamities) ever after.
-- Jean Ferris -
It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty.
-- Jeff LindsaySource : Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.143, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
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Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.
-- Jim Bishop -
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It's been predictable, in the sense of 'expect the unexpected'.
-- John McEnroe -
In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.
-- John Pentland MahaffySource : "Mahaffy". P. 79. Book by W. B. Stanford and R. B. McDowell, 1971.
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Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.
-- John Tukey -
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Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an unexpected blow on our Pacific possessions. Radio makes surprise impossible.
-- Josephus Daniels -
The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.
-- Julian Casablancas -
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Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.
-- Julius Caesar -
No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.
-- Julius Caesar -
A lot of my work has been about the unexpected—that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time. That kind of dilemma—that push and pull—is the underlying turbulence that I bring to each of the pieces that I make.
-- Kara Walker -