Unexpected Quotes

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You've got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected. — Neil Armstrong
Prepare for the unknown, unexpected and inconceivable . . . after 50 years of flying I'm still learning every time I fly. — Gene Cernan
Passion. It can be used to describe the beauty of an earth-shaking meeting between two people, but it isn't just that. It's there in the… — Paulo Coelho
Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of… — Agatha Christie
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful â€¦ to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to… — Seamus Heaney
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… — Wernher von Braun
If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected… — John Lennon
Many people think of me as just a riff guitarist, but I think of myself in broader terms. As a musician I think my greatest… — Jimmy Page
The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birdsâ€”the… — Chuck Jones
Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected. — Chuck Jones
If we knew that we would meet the Lord tomorrow-through our premature death or through His unexpected coming-what would we do today? What confessions would… — Dallin H. Oaks
The turn from this end [despair] to a new beginning came from three things. A blooming cherry tree, the unexpected kindness of Scottish workers and… — JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to… — Bruno Rossi
It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight. — Erwin Rommel
An educated man must have a "curiosity in exploring the unfamiliar and unexpected, an open-mindedness in entertaining opposing points of view, tolerance for the ambiguity… — Derek Bok
It's the stuff that happens right in front of your face when there's no routine and everything is unexpected. That's what I want to write… — Harvey Pekar
The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always. — John Maynard Keynes
Joanna Priestleyâ€™s amazing body of animated films have deservedly earned their place in the pantheon of contemporary international animators. Inventively visioned, superbly crafted, and rich… — Bill Foster
To truly prepare for the unexpected, you've got to position yourself to keep a couple of options open so when the door of opportunity opens,… — Pierre Omidyar
I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the… — Michael Pollan

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