Unexpected Quotes

854 quotes by 684 authors

You can't make a recipe for something as complicated as surgery. Instead, you can make a recipe for how to have a team that's prepared… — Atul Gawande
Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners. — Rosamunde Pilcher
No one really knows how to deal with the unexpected. How do you rehearse the unknown? — Wayne Shorter
To take advantage of unexpected opportunities, we must leave ourselves available. — S. Truett Cathy
Many of the unexpected opportunities we encounter are small but significant. — S. Truett Cathy
All of the government's monetary, economic and political power, as well as its extensive propaganda machinery, will be enlisted in a constant battle to drive… — Irwin Schiff
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… — Gregory Crewdson
The very best gift... is that anyone can experience those unexpected twinkles of joy that make a magical moment. At these moments, you feel true,… — Richard M. Eyre
Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist… — E. M. Forster
Discoveries cannot be planned, they pop up, like Puck, in unexpected corners — Max Perutz
One cannot plan for the unexpected. — Aaron Klug
But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have… — Alan Greenspan
Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets. We can… — Alan Greenspan
I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist. — Ernest Rutherford
Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler. — Paul Theroux
It is not order only, but unexpected order, that has value. — Henri Poincare
The writer, like a swimmer caught by an undertow, is borne in an unexpected direction. He is carried to a subject which has awaited him--a… — Elizabeth Bowen
Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly… — Frederick Buechner
Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a… — Edwin Land
A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it. — Edwin Land

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