Unexpected Quotes

854 Unexpected quotes by 684 unique authors

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other. — Jaron Lanier
All scholarship, like all science, is an ongoing, open-ended discussion in which all conclusions are tentative forever, the principal value and charm of the game… — Hugh Nibley
Piglet opened the letter box and climbed in. Then, having untied himself, he began to squeeze into the slit, through which in the old days… — A A Milne
They say that dogs may dream, and when Topsy was old, his feet would move in his sleep. With his eyes closed he would often… — Alice Hoffman
This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected. — J.R.R. Tolkien
The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to… — Mikhail Bulgakov
Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly for your purpose… — Ted Dekker
There are no absolutes in relationships. You can't take anything for granted. You can count on absolutely nothing but the unexpected. You only get in… — Emily Giffin
She thinks petting me is an honor. This is an unexpected position to take for a goddess of slaughter, but I applaud her defiance of… — Kevin Hearne
The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones. — Erin Morgenstern
So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends. — Anna Godbersen
But this is one of the things that makes rap at its best so human. It doesn't force you to pretend to be only one… — Jay-Z
He reached out and pushed some hair behind her ears. The gesture was tender, but it hit her with an unexpected force, like when you're… — Sarah Addison Allen
He entertained these thoughts awkwardly, as a man entertains unexpected guests. Then, as he reached his objective, he pushed these thoughts away, as a man… — Neil Gaiman
As I understand it, a born executive is a guy who, when anything difficult or unexpected happens, yells for somebody to come and help him. — Rex Stout
The best training is to learn to accept everything as it comes, as from Him whom our soul loves. The tests are always unexpected things,… — Amy Carmichael
Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected. — Norton Juster
It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control… — Agatha Christie
We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpected, to be-aquired reality that would fill us… — Haruki Murakami
Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you. — Marjorie M. Liu
As a professor in two fields, neurology and psychiatry, I am fully aware of the extent to which man is subject to biological, psychological and… — Viktor E. Frankl
What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire,… — Charles Baudelaire
Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that. — Erin Morgenstern
yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism — Khaled Hosseini
The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past. — Lois Lowry

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