The Unexpected Quotes
The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.
When we encounter an unexpected challenge of threat the only way to save ourselves is to hold on tight to the people around us and not let go.
We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpected, to be-aquired reality that would fill us and make us whole.
Embrace the unpredictable and unexpected. It is the path to the infinitely creative in you.
The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations.
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.
It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.
I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes.
Adversity is always unexpected and unwelcomed. It is an intruder and a thief. But in the hands of God, adversity becomes the means through which HIS Supernatural Power is demonstrated.
One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.
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?
For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.
Pilgrimages of mind or walking meditation - bringing moments of illumination in which the sense of relationship to the rest of existence suddenly stands out with startling and unexpected clarity.
Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.
it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.
The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence.
Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.
I can depend less and less on my own power and sense of direction...It is so strange to advance backwards and get where you are going in a totally unexpected way
The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.
High intelligence is to think the unthinkable; genius is to realize the very unexpected one.
When you see beauty all around you, beauty will seek and find you, even in the most unexpected places.
Sometimes the unexpected happens when you don't expect a person to come up to expectations.
I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself.
Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.
Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.
Too often, our minds are locked on one track. We are looking for red - so we overlook blue. Many Nobel Prizes have been washed down the drain because someone did not expect the unexpected.
The way I represent my individuality is by mixing classic pieces - like sports jackets - with little, unexpected additions.
The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.
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.
I think there is a need for something completely new. Something that is too different, too unexpected, to be accepted as yet.
My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.
