Unexpectedly Quotes
153 quotes by 132 authors
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we…
— Paul Auster
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I thought I would keep it on the ground until I became familiar with it, but on account of the wind, I unexpectedly took to…
— Arthur P. Warner
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A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Switch on the television or glance at the newspaper: You will see death everywhere. Yet, did the victims of those plane crashes and car accidents…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Being a disciple means being constantly ready to bring the love of Jesus to others, and this can happen unexpectedly and in any place: on…
— Pope Francis
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We should think more about it, and accustom ourselves to the thought of death. We can't allow the fear of death to creep up on…
— Dmitri Shostakovich
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In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created,…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be so…
— Horace
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I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The…
— James A. Baldwin
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People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine: robust, delicate, muscular. This…
— Anna Quindlen
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When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like…
— Margaret Mahy
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I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.
— Jodi Rell
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Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Looking deeply…
— Gautama Buddha
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We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?
— Gautama Buddha
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The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If you want to do something and you have a goal, do it, don't wait, because your channel might change sometime soon - and quite…
— Sean Swarner
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Embracing your new kind of normal is the most empowering choice you will ever make. It transcends common sense. It is resistant to old patterns.…
— Carol Kent
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I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
— Andrew Johnson
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
— Alfred Hitchcock
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