Unexpectedly Quotes

153 Unexpectedly quotes by 124 unique authors

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… — Unknown Author
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,… — Unknown Author
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
Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful? — Mary Oliver
Moments of pure happiness come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them. — Jessica Lange
If I die unexpectedly can everyone just do the right thing and pretend I was a way better person than I am? — Anna Kendrick
That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again. — Helen Oyeyemi
A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet. — Francois Mauriac
I have a website because it's an interesting tool, very - and quite unexpectedly - useful for my work. It's become an archive and a… — John Howe
Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number… — John Howe
I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious. — Robert Adams
If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become… — Rainer Maria Rilke
No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly. — Arthur Erickson
Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets. — Takeshi Kitano

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