Unexpected Quotes

854 Unexpected quotes by 684 unique authors

There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a… — Laurie Halse Anderson
People sometimes make unexpected choices when they're lonely — Jeanne Birdsall
The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established… — Charles Dickens
If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it. — Noam Chomsky
The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to… — Sue Monk Kidd
Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives… — Anais Nin
It was like that. Sometimes I'd go for a period—days or weeks—without feeling the full sweep of my loss, and then as unexpected as a… — Bette Greene
In my defense, the corpse was entirely unexpected. — Mira Grant
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
Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach toward the earth… — Rainer Maria Rilke
After she was gone there would be no one who knew the whole of her life. She did not even know the whole of it!… — Susan Minot
That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and… — Haruki Murakami
Peace, tremulous, unexpected, sent a taproot out of nowhere into Morgan's heart. — Patricia A. McKillip
That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment,… — Charles Baudelaire
I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar… — Kurt Vonnegut
After a childhood of hungering to be an adult, my hunger had passed. Unexpected fates had begun to catch my notice. These middle-aged women seemed… — Lorrie Moore
Whenever a new situation presented itself, you had to remain cool and distant — Paulo Coelho
How do you know all this? Jeez, Tory, you’re a kid. Act like it. (Geary) (Tory reached out and punched her on the arm.) Ow!… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you. — J.R.R. Tolkien
If you know something bad is coming, can't you plan to avoid it or try to do something differently?" said Charles. Probably", said the Cartographer,… — James A. Owen
We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations sell… — Shonda Rhimes
All I know is that I am not a Marxist. — Karl Marx
We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience, we have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen… — Primo Levi
The pain was as unexpected as a thunderclap in a clear sky. Eddis's chest tightened, as something closed around her heart. A deep breath might… — Megan Whalen Turner
Mental illness doesn't choose the most talented or the smartest or the richest or the poorest. It shows no mercy and often arrives like an… — Steve Lopez

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