Sometimes the best things in life are unexpected. — Faith Sullivan
Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff. — Judi Dench
There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity. — Jason Silva
Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen. — Wendell Berry
Be open to and welcoming of unforeseen events because those unplanned moments are often the seeds of spectacular opportunities in your life. — Pat Flynn
The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones. — Erin Morgenstern
In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined. — Nicholas Sparks
It's the mishaps that make it fun, and brings you the surprise. — Anna Wintour
If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives. — Heraclitus
Unintended consequences are life’s way of showing you the possibilities you haven’t thought about. — Mahatria Ra
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. — Carl Sandburg
If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find it. — Heraclitus
Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is. — Saul Bellow
Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised — Daniel Defoe
Short Unexpected Things Quotes
Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences. — Richard Bach
Always remain open to turns and surprises along the way. Welcome the unexpected. — Rick Rubin
At its best, life is completely unpredictable. — Christopher Walken
Life is full of challenges and surprises. — Jil Sander
Anything can happen in life, especially nothing. — Michel Houellebecq
Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere. — Robert Fulghum
If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens. — Fay Weldon
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. — Leon Trotsky
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. — Margaret Mitchell
When you expect things to happen -- strangely enough -- they do happen. — John Pierpont Morgan
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
The Most Unexpected Things Quotes
What does it mean to be a snowboarder? It's about having fun, with your friends or by yourself. It's about pushing yourself to try new things and do the unexpected. Finally, and most importantly, it's about being creative. — Shaun White
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost. — Seamus Heaney
Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present. — Anna Freud
Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that made him sick.
It‘s funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places. — Karen Marie Moning
Clearly, audiences are very accepting of A-list talent both giving them what they want - Tom Hanks is the most classic example - and then going on, from time to time, to do things that are unexpected. That's part of what makes people want to go to the movies and not just sit home. — Mark Canton
Sometimes, Just when we need them, life wraps metaphors up in little bows for us. When you think all is lost, the things you need the most return unexpectedly. — Susannah Cahalan
The thing about love was that it caught you unawares, turned up in the most unexpected places, even when you weren't looking for it. — Sarra Manning
Do Unexpected Things Quotes
Love can make you do things that you never thought possible — Phil Collins
This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected. — J. R. R. Tolkien
I feel like doing basic, casual pieces and then doing really elevated, more unexpected things is becoming more possible. I feel like I do eventually want to be able to address more categories, like active or evening. — Rumi Neely
If I have a day off, I want to get on a plane and go to Paris! If I have a couple hours off work, I want to run to the market and make a four-course meal. I like to do things that are unexpected. — Ali Larter
If you're a poet and you're using rhyme, rhyme generates ideas. If you're a songwriter and you're using melody and words together, they bounce off each other in interesting ways that you couldn't get otherwise, because you do things unexpectedly. — Momus
We provide a secure, stable space for children to grow up in, so children will be able to take risks and have adventures and do things that are unexpected. If there isn't a risk that your children can fail, then you haven't succeeded as a parent. — Alison Gopnik
The best thing for an actor to do is take your attention off of how you feel about it, and put it on striving to obtain a particular objective. The happy result is that it brings out all this unexpected stuff in yourself. — William H. Macy
I feel like movies should stick to a genre and give the audience what they want, and then surprise them with the unexpected, and not just do the same thing you've always seen. — Paula Patton
It's hard to give up that amount of control. It's scary to make yourself that vulnerable. Because you might do all kinds of things that are unplanned or are unexpected that maybe don't work, and you have to trust the director to see that and work around those things. I find it really scary. — Sarah Polley
But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Surprise Unexpected Things Quotes
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 from unexpected sources, and I am constantly looking forward to each day with all the surprises that keep coming my way! — Louise Hay
What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising. — Brian Cox
In life the only thing that you can expect is the unexpected; the only surprise is a day that has none. — Joan Rivers
Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected. — Paul Auster
The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise. — Jill Soloway
The essence of the ludicrous consists in surprise,--in unexpected terms of feeling and explosions of thought,--often bringing dissimilar things together with a shock; as when some wit called Boyle, the celebrated philosopher, the father of chemistry and brother of the Earl of Cork. — Edwin Percy Whipple
Sometimes my husband will surprise me with flowers for no reason. Unexpected romantic gestures are very important and keep things exciting. — Adriana Lima
One of the things I learned as president is that your life is just not going to unfold the way you want it to. There will be surprises, challenges, and therefore the question is how you deal with the unexpected. — George W. Bush
It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely a surprising and unexpected movement away from collective patterns of behavior and received wisdom. — William Irwin Thompson
What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones. — Jean Dubuffet
Unexpected Things Happen Quotes
Black Swan theory tells us that things happen that were previously thought to be impossible – or never thought of at all. — Chris Voss
In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns. — Jason Schwartzman
When I'm asked about my work, I try to explain that there is no mystery involved. It is work. But things happen all the time that are unexpected, uncontrolled, unexplainable, even magical. The work prepares you for that moment. Suddenly the clouds roll in and the soft light you longed for appears. — Annie Leibovitz
I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that these accidents are really what we mean when we talk about poetry. — John Ashbery
She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences. — Paulo Coelho
When you live with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen — Oprah Winfrey
Who doesn't need hope in their lives: hope that something can change, that someone cares, that not only bad things happen unexpectedly but good things can happen to us too? — Danielle Steel
Things that have never happened before are bound to occur with some regularity. You must always be prepared for the unexpected, including sudden, sharp downward swings in markets and the economy. Whatever adverse scenario you can contemplate, reality can be far worse. — Seth Klarman
There are some things we can control and others we simply cannot. And our ability to distinguish between them is critical to our happiness and wellbeing. Sometimes unexpected stuff will happen to us or around us. Our true power lies in our response. — Clifton Anderson
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature. — Ada Leverson
Surprising Things Quotes
Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe. Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. ...I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
You’d be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look — T. D. Jakes
There is one thing sure about life: Life will push us hardly many times! When you are pushed, don't be surprised; stay firm like a plane tree or be elastic like a bamboo! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life. — Jaggi Vasudev
As with many other things, there is a surprising amount of prejudice against quality control, but the proof of the pudding is still in the eating. — Kaoru Ishikawa
Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression. — Sir John Harvey
Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression. — John Harvey-Jones
Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic. — Barbara Ehrenreich
Instead of fearing the unknown - all the bad that can happen - realize that good things can surprise you as well. — Lewis Howes
Unexpected Events Quotes
Life is bound to deal you a few bad hands now and then. You don’t need to make a big deal out of every unexpected turn of events. Your path may be rerouted, but nothing is lost unless you decide to quit. Through it all, arm yourself with the right attitude. — Mo Gawdat
Never judge others. You both know good and well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in mind. You never know what someone else is experiencing within their own life. — Colleen Hoover
Maintain a margin of safety. If your life is designed only to handle the expected challenges, then it will fall apart as soon as something unexpected happens to you. Always be stronger than you need to be. Leave room for the unexpected. — James Clear
The biggest surprise for most people in dying is to realize that dying does not end life. Whether darkness or light comes next, or some kind of event, be it positive, negative, or somewhere in between, expected or unexpected, the biggest surprise of all is to realize you are still you. — P. M. H. Atwater
Unexpected events can set you back or set you up. It's all a matter of - perspective. — Mary Anne Radmacher
As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision. — Napoleon Bonaparte
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 last with an unexpected catastrophe. — Joshua Reynolds
The wonders of a journey consist far more of such intangible experiences and unexpected situations than of factual things and events of material reality. — Anagarika Govinda
Unexpected Places Quotes
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place. — C. S. Lewis
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 the street, in a city square, during work, on a journey. — Pope Francis
If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place. It is magical not because it tricks us or changes unexpectedly into something else, but because it can be so vividly and brilliantly. — Chogyam Trungpa
I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner. — Alex Webb
There are bodies buried everywhere you just have to know where to look. — Chuck Palahniuk
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 that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it. — Dorothea Lange
I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers. — Linus Torvalds
The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places. — Gene Stratton-Porter
Sometimes the things you’ve lost can be found again in unexpected places. — Daniel Handler
The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places. — Thomas Merton
Something Unexpected Quotes
There is nothing wrong with planning and trying to assume control. The way we react when something unexpected happens is where we go off track. — Mo Gawdat
The first thing we ever filmed was, we had to eat off people's plates, like we just walked over and took something. We thought we would get punched. — Joe Gatto
Strive to achieve your goals knowing that the results are impossible to predict. When something unexpected happens, the detachment concept tells us to accept the new direction and try again. — Mo Gawdat
When you sort your dataset descending by loss you are guaranteed to find something unexpected, strange and helpful. — Andrej Karpathy
When you enter a fight, be prepared for anything—your opponent may surprise you with something unexpected. — Joe Rogan
No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected. — Julius Caesar
In Cuba and specifically in Havana there's a sort of energy that turns every situation into something unexpected. — Fernando Perez
Personal style is about taking a risk, trying something unexpected, and having fun with fashion, but always being true to yourself. — Ralph Lauren
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 the promise of a form, a meaning, and, more important, an irresistible poetic charge. — Leo Lionni
As soon as we think we are safe, something unexpected happens. — Buddha
Unexpected Moments Quotes
When people are like, 'Life is good,' I go, 'No, life is a series of disastrous moments, painful moments, unexpected moments, and things that will break your heart. And in between those moments, that's when you savor, savor, savor.' — Sandra Bullock
Relief work does not consist entirely in wearisome appeals ... it has its moments of enchantment, its adventures, its unexpected vistas into new worlds — Eglantyne Jebb
A photograph isn't necessarily a lie, but nor is it the truth. It's more of a fleeting, subjective impression. What I most like about photography is the moment that you can't anticipate: you have to be constantly watching for it, ready to welcome the unexpected. — Martine Franck
Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them. — Jessica Lange
Our God is Jehovah of hosts, who can summon unexpected reinforcements at any moment to aid His people. Believe that He is there between you and your difficulty, and what baffles you will flee before Him, as clouds before the gale. — F.B. Meyer
What I like so much about photography is precisely the moment that cannot be anticipated; one must be constantly on the alert, ready to acclaim the unexpected. — Martine Franck
He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living. — Elena Ferrante
Pilgrimages of mind or walking meditation - bringing moments of illumination in which the sense of relationship to the rest of existence suddenly stands out with startling and unexpected clarity. — David Fontana
Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for - life by keeping eyes, mind and heart open to nature, men, books, experience - and what he gathers serves him at unexpected moments in unforeseen ways. — Hamilton Wright Mabie
To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which "life" is made. — Stephen Covey
Unusual Things Quotes
The evidence for Jesus' resurrection is so strong that nobody would question it except for two things: First, it is a very unusual event. And second, if you believe it happened, you have to change the way you live. — Wolfhart Pannenberg
The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly — Harry Reasoner
I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape. — Scarlett Johansson
My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady, and the other was to be independent. The study of law was unusual for women of my generation. For most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A., but your M.R.S. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things? — Philip Zimbardo
Every woman who vacates a place in the teachers' ranks and enters an unusual line of work, does two excellent things: she makes room for someone waiting for a place and helps to open a new vocation for herself and other women. — Frances E. Willard
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. — Alfred North Whitehead
As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things. — Julius Caesar
He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things. — Christopher Hitchens
Opportunity presents itself sometimes in unusual situations. What you think is the worst thing turns out to be a good thing. Different circumstances challenge people to do things they didn't know they could do, and in those times when the outlook appears the worst, we find new reasons for optimism. — S. Truett Cathy
As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude. — Etty Hillesum
What I adore is mixing the unexpected, things you don't imagine should go together — Paul Smith
We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life. — C. S. Lewis
Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty. — H. P. Lovecraft
No matter how much you plan and prepare, things can still go wrong. — Lewis Howes
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 well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control. — Joan D. Vinge
There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story. — Pam Houston
I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources. — Norman Foster
It is the human things that make life good, the unexpected kindness, the friendly note, the bracing word, the neighbour's extra loaf of bread she leaves at our back door. — Stevie Ray Vaughan
If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable. — Rainer Maria Rilke
My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search beneath the surface of things for an unexpected sense of mystery. — Gregory Crewdson
Trends come like a series of ocean waves, bringing the high tide when things are good and, as conditions recede, the low tide appears. These trends come unexpectedly, unpredictably, and they have to be weathered with temperance, poise, and patience- good or bad. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable. — Carl Jung
The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen. — Soren Kierkegaard
It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking. — David Suzuki
I deeply believe that everything is relative. We need the bad to appreciate the good, and vice versa. We need something unexpected to happen in order for us to realize that everything was expected. It's our relation to those things that we are able to decide how we feel and the level of intensity of those feelings. Such is relativity — Shania Twain
Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's just the opposite. I must account for every line, shape and colour and I am forced to give an explanation of the inexplicable and account for the variety of styles the students present. — Pierre Alechinsky
A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes. — Mark Twain
The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him. — J. R. R. Tolkien
What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire, all its poetry and all its charity, to the unexpected as it comes along, to the stranger as he passes. — Charles Baudelaire
I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself. — Mary Matalin
Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends. — Iggy Pop
There is no such thing as a boring person: everyone has stories and insights worth sharing. While on the road, we let our phones or laptops take up our attention. By doing that, we might miss out on the chance to learn and absorb ideas and inspiration from an unexpected source: our fellow travelers. — Richard Branson
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