Unexpected Quotes

854 Unexpected quotes by 684 unique authors

The unexpected and unpredictable is real. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
My style is to take something unexpected and make it into a hit. That's what I do. — Timbaland
Guests love to be 'wowed' in Las Vegas. They enjoy and embrace new tastes, new flavors, and they come to expect the unexpected in Las… — Michael Mina
Isn't it the unexpected that teaches us the most? — Marwa
Unexpected change is like a breath of fresh air -- a little brisk at first, but magic for the body and soul. — Susan Wiggs
I deeply believe that everything is relative. We need the bad to appreciate the good, and vice versa. We need something unexpected to happen in… — Shania Twain
For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any… — Bo Burnham
The erotic state – again, a mixture of concentration and spontaneity – is a hypnoidal state, probably the most powerful kind that we are capable… — Peter Redgrove
But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself. — Viktor E. Frankl
The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence. — James Ensor
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… — Antonio Damasio
To enjoy your goals, think of them as signposts, pointing you in a certain direction. They give you a focus and help your energy to… — Shakti Gawain
The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places. — Thomas Merton
It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the… — Samuel Johnson
Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope,… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they… — Bertrand Russell
I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires are known to… — Yi-Fu Tuan
I want to show the world that there is life, surprising, wonderful, and unexpected life...after diagnosis — Demi Lovato
The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms… — William Ernest Henley
The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected. — Charles Kennedy
The people who fear humor - and they are many - are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights, to question received… — Robertson Davies
Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to… — Hannah Arendt
I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event. — Felix Baumgartner
Nice writing isn't enough. It isn't enough to have smooth and pretty language. You have to surprise the reader frequently, you can't just be nice… — Anne Bernays

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