Unexpected Quotes

854 Unexpected quotes by 684 unique authors

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place… — Carl Sagan
I also read about Heathcliff's unexpected three-year career in Hollywood under the name Buck Stallion and his eventual return to the pages of Wuthering Heights. — Jasper Fforde
it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure. — Alice Walker
What do you think of that? It’s stopped raining." I’m glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness;… — Thomas Mann
And they lived happily (aside from a few normal disagreements, misunderstandings, pouts, silent treatments, and unexpected calamities) ever after. — Jean Ferris
Each of us may think we know exactly what we need to make us happy, what will be good for us, what will ensure we… — Jane Green
Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from… — Virginia Woolf
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man — Honore de Balzac
Spirituality is a mixed-up, topsy-turvy, helter-skelter godliness that turns our lives into an upside-down toboggan ride of unexpected turns, surprise bumps and bone shattering crashes… — Mike Yaconelli
It’s the spirit here that counts. The time may be long, the vehicle may be strange or unexpected. But if the dream is held close… — Robert Fulghum
Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are… — Gloria Naylor
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental… — Charles Baudelaire
Having no other recourse, Roran resorted to the unexpected: he stuck his head and neck out and shouted, "BAH!" just as he would if he… — Christopher Paolini
It occurred to me then that it was in times of struggle that I found the best parts of myself - courage, loyalty, an unexpected… — Patrick Carman
I did not want to think so much about her. I wanted to take her as an unexpected, delightful gift, that had come and would… — Erich Maria Remarque
The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private lives… — Jonathan Kozol
Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude.… — Elizabeth Bowen
Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at… — Paulo Coelho
The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name. — Arthur Conan Doyle
No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected. — Lynda Barry
And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through… — Suzanne Collins
Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth is, life itself,… — Brenda Ueland
This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an… — Unknown Author
It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science. — Carl Sagan

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