Unexpected Quotes

854 Unexpected quotes by 684 unique authors

Visiting a new town is like having a conversation. Places ask questions of you just as searchingly as you question them. And, as in any… — Pico Iyer
With training and self discipline; clear focus and confidence; problems can be overcome and even lead to unexpected gains — Georges St-Pierre
That's actually pretty tame, but the fact that it was coming from this unexpected adorable little 17-year-old, I thought I'd be getting a letter about… — Lzzy Hale
Pilgrimages of mind or walking meditation - bringing moments of illumination in which the sense of relationship to the rest of existence suddenly stands out… — David Fontana
Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan. — David Dixon
The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a relentless extrapolation from… — Jamais Cascio
Never judge others. You both know good and well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in mind. You never… — Colleen Hoover
With Wings of the Butterfly, John Urbancik infuses his tale of shapeshifters, romance and pack rivalry with some unexpected and welcome surprises. Fluid prose, gore… — Kealan Patrick Burke
I think beauty is youth; it's energy. I'm attracted to imperfection, style, confidence, and experimentation. So beauty, to me, is really a lot of things.… — Marc Jacobs
Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What is wonderful about a university like LSE is that you not only receive teaching of very high quality, you also learn where to find… — Pierre Trudeau
One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know what hope is,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The worst crime of all would be that a mistake happens and no one talks about it or learns from it. So, as unsettling as… — Sanjay Gupta
I love to create magic - to put something together that's so unusual, so unexpected that it blows people's heads off. Something ahead of the… — Michael Jackson
We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and… — Muammar al-Gaddafi
Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific - this tube squeaks, say, or a squish then a press then… — Alison Gopnik
I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances. — Leonardo DiCaprio
The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street. — Robert Doisneau
Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur. — Ralph Fiennes
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them. — Jane Fonda
It's a fact that people who are in a weakened position, whether physically or mentally, have this perception of the outer world as threatening. Everything… — Michael Haneke
It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places. — Kathleen Hanna
My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected. — Robert Harris
I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward. — Seamus Heaney
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself -… — Seamus Heaney

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