Least Expecting Quotes:

You and I will meet again, When we're least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won't say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.

- Tom Petty

source: Song: You And I Will Meet Again

topic: Inspirational, Goodbye, Farewell, Least Expecting, Moving Away

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

- Charles Kettering

topic: Motivational, Positive, Success, Least Expecting, Motivational Keep Going

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.474, Princeton University Press

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Anon, Insanity And Genius

History is the same thing over and over again.

- Woody Allen

topic: History, Anon, Insanity And Sanity, Special Talents, Mojo

I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

- Charles Kettering

topic: Commitment, Sitting Down, Stumbling, Least Expecting, Motivational Keep Going

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

- Dominic Cooper

topic: Grief, Expecting, Least Expecting

But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

- Bear Grylls

topic: Doe, Stuff, Expecting, Least Expecting

Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of crushing blows from behind.

- Hesketh Pearson

source: Hesketh Pearson (1926). “The whispering gallery: being leaves from a diplomat's diary”

topic: Crush, Depressing, Fate, Least Expecting

Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down the road and someday, you do not now when, you will make a wrong tun. At the end of the road, when you're least expecting it, he (or indeed she) will be there.

- Gabrielle Zevin

topic: Driving Down The Road, Someday, Expecting, Least Expecting, End Of The Road

I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal. Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.

- Alan Bradley

source: Alan Bradley (2011). “A Red Herring Without Mustard: A Flavia de Luce Novel”, p.145, Delacorte Press

topic: Thinking, Oatmeal, Long, Least Expecting, Fugitive

We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is from without, when we are least expecting it, that it gives us its cruel stab and wounds us forever.

- Marcel Proust

source: Marcel Proust (2015). “Cities of the Plain (Sodom and Gomorrah)”, p.550, Booklassic

topic: Truth, Ideas, Giving, Least Expecting

He pretended it was the only thing that kept him from it. But, far back in his mind, he wondered if he could write anything. Often the question threw itself at him when he was least expecting it. You have four hours every morning, the statement would rise like a menacing wraith. You have time to write many thousands of words. Why don't you? And the answer was always lost in a tangle of becauses and wells and endless reasons that he clung to like a drowning man at straws.

- Richard Matheson

topic: Morning, Writing, Men, Least Expecting, Wraith

With a horror movie most of the actual jumps and scares are made in the edit. It's often not very scary on set and then you watch the film and suddenly it's very scary because the way the jump scares fit together building up the suspense in the audience because it's making them jump when they're least expecting it.

- Jeremy Irvine

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Least Expecting