Unexpected Quotes

854 Unexpected quotes by 684 unique authors

What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that… — Timothy Leary
Blackouts can be fun if approached with the right mindset. You just can't sweat the fact that you've lost a small portion of your life… — Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Alec Nevala-Lee comes roaring out of the gate with a novel that's as thrilling as it is thought-provoking, as unexpected as it is erudite. The Icon Thief is… — Jesse Kellerman
Be brave. Be open-minded. Be kind. Be forgiving. Be generous. Be optimistic. Be grateful for the many unexpected lessons you will learn. Find the joy… — Dana Reeve
Expect the unexpected in the kingdom of madness! — Randy Savage
I hope that you choose ultimately to follow your heart, and learn that whatever your plans, your goals, your dreams, life will take you in… — Paul Michael Glaser
I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered… — Dorothea Lange
Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways. — Pat Metheny
But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost… — Paul Lester Wiener
Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and… — Ron Perlman
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like… — Warren G. Bennis
The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a unanimity almost as unprecedented as… — James Madison
What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms can throw up miraculous sports… — V.S. Naipaul
And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite… — Robert Rauschenberg
The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then… — Venerable Bede
Unexpected doors fly open, unexpected channels are free, and endless avalanches of abundance are poured out upon me, under grace in perfect ways. — Florence Scovel Shinn
At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext… — Thelonious Monk
He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored — Heraclitus
If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives. — Heraclitus
Provoke the unexpected. Expect it. — Robert Bresson
I don't like that particular word 'shocking.' I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before … I was in a… — Robert Mapplethorpe
Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real… — Berenice Abbott
Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our notice, but because… — Samuel Johnson
Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They… — Paulo Coelho
Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows. — Betty Friedan

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