Unexpectedly Quotes

153 quotes by 132 authors

The old world order changed when this war-storm broke. The old international order passed away as suddenly, as unexpectedly, and as completely as if it… — Nicholas Murray Butler
Close both eyes see with the other one. Then we are no longer saddled by the burden of our persistent judgments our ceaseless withholding our… — Greg Boyle
We don't forget.... Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees,… — Alexander McCall Smith
From time to time, from the endless flow of our mental imagery, there emerges unexpectedly something that, vague though it may be, seems to carry… — Leo Lionni
I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event [Lincoln's assassination] which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties… — Andrew Johnson
The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right back where we… — Douglas Hofstadter
There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. — Steven Levy
Into all our lives, in many simple, familiar, homely ways, God infuses this element of joy from the surprises of life, which unexpectedly brighten our… — Samuel Longfellow
Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep. — H. M. Tomlinson
Marathoning is like cutting yourself unexpectedly. You dip into the pain so gradually that the damage is done before you are aware of it. Unfortunately,… — John Farrington
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place [if we anticipate and look for it, rather than wallow in… — C.S. Lewis
Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's no way out of it.… — Robert M. Sapolsky
Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house. — Georg Brandes
I really enjoy Martin Sheen - he is very unexpectedly funny, very quick. — Noureen DeWulf
I had the good fortune to be thrown unexpectedly into something called the Labour Research Unit - a little known organisation set up to assist… — S. R. Nathan
The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as… — Joan D. Vinge
When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value . — Sun Bin
PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it. — Ambrose Bierce
One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully. — Alain de Botton
Isnâ€™t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful? — Mary Oliver

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