Unexpected Quotes

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained;

most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.

Expect the unexpected! Let life surprise you in the most beautiful way.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected;

the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Charm is a product of the unexpected.

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.

A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.

Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.

If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

A sudden bold and unexpected question does many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Which death is preferably to every other? The unexpected.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.

Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image.

It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry.

He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

You can't make a recipe for something as complicated as surgery.

Instead, you can make a recipe for how to have a team that's prepared for the unexpected.

The next time you're faced with something that's unexpected, unwanted and uncertain, consider that it just may be a gift.

The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.

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.

Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

Go at it boldly, and you'll find unexpected forces closing round you and coming to your aid.

None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.

Grace means the free, unmerited, unexpected love of God, and all the benefits, delights, and comforts which flow from it. It means that while we were sinners and enemies we have been treated as sons and heirs.

It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge.

This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected;

the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell.

One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves -- there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it? -- are nothing in comparison with the tests that are sprung on them. It is not the obvious tests that matter (do you go to pieces in a mortar attack?) but the unexpected ones (here is a man on the run, seeking your help -- can you face him honestly?).

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

In a world where over two days of video get uploaded every minute, only that which is truly unique and unexpected can stand out in the way that [viral videos] have.

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.

I haven't heard anything or seen anything out there that would lead me to believe that all of a sudden there's an unexpected drop in PCs.

It's especially important since September 11 for people to be trained for the unexpected. We want to try to make sure people are safe.

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

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.

Macau has been steady. The shocking, unexpected government is the one in Washington.

When I was a teenager, I was like, 'Something is wrong with me.

I don't fit in. I'm not like everybody else.' So, I always knew that I wanted to explore and move on, but it was completely unexpected, the way it happened.

Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.

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.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell.

One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.