Unexpected Quotes

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Adversity often produces an unexpected opportunity. Look for it ! Appreciate and utilize it! This is difficult to do if you're feeling sorry for yourself… — John Wooden
History has taught us: never underestimate the amount of money, time, and effort someone will expend to thwart a security system. It's always better to… — Bruce Schneier
Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be… — Heraclitus
Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe… — Loren Eiseley
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in… — Diane Ackerman
The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may say things which… — Samuel Gompers
To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which "life" is made. — Stephen Covey
'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper… — George Herbert
[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing,… — Carl Sagan
At the moment I am occupied by an investigation with Kirchoff which does not allow us to sleep. Kirchoff has made a totally unexpected discovery,… — Robert Bunsen
Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain. — Heraclitus
[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you may define "serendipity"… — Irving Langmuir
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… — David Hume
Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it. Science is an… — Freeman Dyson
Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich… — P T Barnum
My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd… — Phoebe Snow
Be grateful for the tiny details of your life and make room for unexpected and beautiful blessings. — Henry Van Dyke
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… — Etty Hillesum
Gratitude is most treasured when it is unexpected. When we expect, even demand gratitude, we treat it simply as payment due for some service we… — Michael Josephson
Will not perhaps the temporal power of Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Mohammedan world, which will shake off the domination… — Hilaire Belloc

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