Unexpected Quotes

854 Unexpected quotes by 684 unique authors

You think you need me, little firecracker?” The gruff question travels all the way through me, and I have to press my thighs together to… — Katy Evans
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. — Samuel Johnson
Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through door on door;… — David McCord
It is often to the wary that the events in life are unexpected. Looser types-people who are not busy weighing and measuring every little thing-are… — Laurie Colwin
I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best… — Booker T. Washington
A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable. — Billy Graham
Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at… — Joshua Reynolds
The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. — Samuel Johnson
I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a… — Giordano Bruno
No other area offers richer opportunities for successful innovation than the unexpected success. — Peter Drucker
I find that the more willing I am to be grateful for the small things in life, the bigger stuff just seems to show up… — Louise Hay
When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend… — Mark Twain
The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected. — Cynthia Kenyon
It was a unique childhood, to say the least. My father was born in Patiala to refugee parents and was a part of the Indian… — Kapil Sharma
I like roles that bring the unexpected. Roles that may challenge the way people think about things and perceive things. And I like roles that… — Bokeem Woodbine
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life… — Henry David Thoreau
I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in… — Eva Green
Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually… — Italo Calvino
I always expect unexpected challenges. Boxing is not an easy sport. — Sugar Ray Leonard
The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other… — Eddie Rickenbacker
It is easy to predict that some of the discoveries of research directed towards Grand Challenges - but only the most unexpected ones, and at… — Tony Hoare
Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success. — Dean Wareham
Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected… — Jane Hirshfield
One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an… — Marianne Williamson

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