Unexpected Quotes

854 Unexpected quotes by 684 unique authors

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a… — Henry David Thoreau
Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost… — Lewis Thomas
For me, it's the unexpected and surprising combinations of produce that are the most exciting and lure me into the kitchen for a little bit… — Marlo Thomas
I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it.… — Linus Torvalds
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. — Leon Trotsky
I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic. — Carrie Underwood
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected… — Paul Valery
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. — Oscar Wilde
Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. String theory does so again because a point particle… — Edward Witten
And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the… — Florenz Ziegfeld
The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of… — Gary Zukav
Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens. — Norton Juster
Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain,… — Albert Einstein
I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to… — Gary Snyder
I am the son of the road , my country is a caravan and my life is the most unexpected of voyages. i belong to… — Amin Maalouf
Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the… — H P Lovecraft
Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can. — Nicholas Sparks
As a writing man, or secretary, I have always felt charged with the safekeeping of all unexpected items of worldly and unworldly enchantment, as though… — Elwyn Brooks White
The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will… — Victor Hugo
To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of knowledge had a… — Henry James
All our days are marked with/ unexpected/ affronts--some/ disastrous, others/ less so/ but the process is/ wearing and/ continuous./ Attrition rules./ Most give/ way/ leaving/… — Charles Bukowski
Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears… — Dave Eggers
You...you lost your faith?" "No...just my convictions. I still very much believe in God- just not a god who condones human tithing." Lev begins to… — Neal Shusterman
perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it… — Hugh Prather
Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas. — Patrick O'Brian

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