Unexpected Quotes
854 quotes by 695 authors
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Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.
— Timothy Leary
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Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been…
— Mary McCarthy
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What I don't know is what the unexpected might be.
— John McCain
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The far object of a training system is to prepare the combat officer mentally so that he can cope with the unusual and unexpected as…
— Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
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I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty,…
— Dani Shapiro
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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
— Fay Weldon
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If there is a mystical chord in democracy, it probably revolves around the notion that unexpected music can resonate from politics when people are pursuing…
— William Greider
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Let's face it, life is a constant challenge. It's full of unexpected detours that no one but you can navigate.
— Sheryl Crow
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I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not…
— Albert Schweitzer
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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…
— John Owen
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Do they think that I am such a damned fool as to think myself fit for President of the United States? No, sir; I know…
— Andrew Jackson
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It's all a big hoax, honey. I never wrote a song in my life. I get one-third of the credit for recording it. It makes…
— Elvis Presley
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I poop in the backyard... I wear disposable diapers.
— David Duchovny
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People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.
— George Lucas
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We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The swine who stole my dog doesn't realize what he did to me!
— Adolf Hitler
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I do not admit... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia... by the…
— Winston Churchill
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This movement among the Jews is not new... this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis…
— Winston Churchill
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I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes.
— Winston Churchill
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Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking…
— James Fenton
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