The Unexpected Quotes
It is the human things that make life good, the unexpected kindness, the friendly note, the bracing word, the neighbour's extra loaf of bread she leaves at our back door.
People may surprise you with unexpected kindness. Dogs have a depth of loyalty that often we seem unworthy of. But the love of a cat is a blessing, a privilege in this world.
I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Build a platform - prepare for the unexpected...you' ll know you're successful when the platform you've built serves you in unexpected ways.
The greatest gain from space travel consists in the extension of our knowledge. In a hundred years this newly won knowledge will pay huge and unexpected dividends.
The expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever.
Personal style is about taking a risk, trying something unexpected, and having fun with fashion, but always being true to yourself.
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
It was unexpected. That's just how it was. I don't believe they were faster than us. I don't believe they had more heart or dedication. It just fell on their side. That's the reality of it.
That which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation.
The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots.
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
A great advantage of X-ray analysis as a method of chemical structure analysis is its power to show some totally unexpected and surprising structure with, at the same time, complete certainty.
Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the day.
Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.
A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.
Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.
By positional play a master tries to prove and exploit true values, whereas by combinations he seeks to refute false values ... A combination produces an unexpected re-assessment of values.
It is the individual's ability to deal with the unexpected that characterizes the difference between success and failure.
What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising.
Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.
No matter how horrid a person may appear on the surface, if you dig deeper, you will find some nice, unexpected little quality.
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful... to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search beneath the surface of things for an unexpected sense of mystery.
Did you never run for shelter in a storm, and find fruit which you expected not? Did you never go to God for safeguard, driven by outward storms, and there find unexpected fruit?
As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources.
evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.
The key is to set realistic customer expectations, and then not to just meet them, but to exceed them - preferably in unexpected and helpful ways.
True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.
I'm always interested in the unexpected and know that things, especially in show business, but in life generally, are inevitably fleeting to one extent.
I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that these accidents are really what we mean when we talk about poetry.
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man
Extend some kind of unexpected generosity to someone, preferably a stranger, every single day for two weeks. The more you practice being generous, the more you'll impact others in an inspiring way.
What I like so much about photography is precisely the moment that cannot be anticipated; one must be constantly on the alert, ready to acclaim the unexpected.
