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Quotes About Unexpected

Flinging dog drool on innocent passersby?
~ Meg Cabot
It's sort of weird to be hugged by your Algebra teacher. That's all I have to say.
~ Meg Cabot
And yeah, okay, the majority of guys I have met since moving to California have turned out either to have psychopathic killers stalking them, or were actually psychopathic killers themselves. But that's really not a very good excuse for falling in love with a ghost. It really isn't.
~ Meg Cabot
Dr. and Dr. Moscovitz seemed kind of surprised when all ten of us—twelve, if you count Lars and Wahim—showed up at their door. They were especially surprised to see Michael; they hadn't realized he'd left his room.
~ Meg Cabot
Thanks a lot for inviting assorted randos from my past to my wedding reception, Father D. Who else can I expect to show up? If you say the Backstreet Boys, I won't be held responsible for my actions.
~ Meg Cabot
And I winked back, because, well, what else are you supposed to do when a naked guy winks at you?
~ Meg Cabot
suddenly up and died. Really.
~ Meg Cabot
Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all. One. Two. Three. Blink. A girl is laughing with her friends. Suddenly, a crater splits apart the earth. Through it bursts a man in an ink black chariot forged in the deepest pits of hell, drawn by stallions with hooves of steel and eyes of flame.
~ Meg Cabot
Alexander Hamilton, widely reputed to be the most eloquent man in the United States of America, had, for the first time in his life, been rendered speechless.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
The door to this building was left not only unlocked but ajar. As we are not generally in the business of inviting burglars to walk in and make themselves at home, I do hope you have an excellent explanation. We were being pursued by a writing desk that eats men's hearts, Julian said. Oppenshaw considered that. Interesting, he said.
~ Melissa Scott
Stories were so easy to control. Lady Lynx escaped because Zenobia created an escapable situation, and if anything unexpected happened to her characters, Zenobia had a clever plan to get them out of their new fix.
~ Meljean Brook
So, there you have it, you get up and go to school, thinking it's just another ordinary day and the next thing you know, something totally unexpected happens! Life's like that. I guess it's like Forrest Gump said about the box of chocolates-you just never know what you're going to get!
~ Melody Carlson
we're not always ready to receive God's love. And we're not prepared to accept that it comes in a variety of ways. Often when we least expect it, God's love can show up in the form of something or someone we aren't happy to see-something or someone we want to push away or even run from. And, let me tell you, God's love can make us downright uncomfortable at times.
~ Melody Carlson
Jett Gallatin expected trouble in Alsop, Texas—but not zombies.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Rottcodd was unmarried. An aloofness and even a nervousness was apparent on first acquaintance and the ladies held a peculiar horror for him. His, then, was an ideal existence, living alone day and night in a long loft. Yet occasionally, for one reason or another, a servant or a member of the household would make an unexpected appearance and startle him with some question appertaining to ritual, and then the dust would settle once more in the hall and on the soul of Mr. Rottcodd.
~ Mervyn Peake
Dorothy did not feel nearly so bad as you might think a little girl who had been so suddenly whisked away from her own country and set down in the middle of a strange land
~ baum
None of this was in the game plan for my life. I had been hit hard, broadside and from left field, in a way I could never have imagined. Things like this just didn't happen to me. I was always the lucky kid. But rogue balls from left field can often be the making of us.
~ Bear Grylls
We can't always choose our circumstances but we can choose how we respond to what life throws at us, and there is power when we realize our ability to alter our destiny. A life in the wild has taught me not to fear the unexpected, but to embrace it. In fact, I have learnt that those curve balls from left-field are very often the making of us.
~ Bear Grylls
But round the end of a cucumber frame, whom should he meet but Mr. McGregor!
~ Beatrix Potter
I didn't know how I'd love you, when I walked into your life. Now I have a heart I cannot keep . . .
~ Bebo Norman
This is just the first day; you'll get used to it. The rewards will come later, from the kids themselves–and from the unlikeliest ones.
~ Bel Kaufman
Next thing she knows she's lying flat on her back and three grizzled Mexicans are standing over her, trying
~ Ben Fountain
Shit!" Evelgold added. "What?" Hook asked, alarmed. "I just stepped in some." "That's supposed to bring you luck," Hook said. "Then I'd better dance in the goddam stuff.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Mas quando você tem ordem, você não precisa dos Deuses. Quando tudo está bem ordenado e disciplinado, nada é inesperado. Se você entende tudo, não resta espaço para a magia. Só quando está perdido, apavorado e no escuro é que você chama os Deuses, e eles gostam de ser chamados. Isso os torna poderosos, e é por isso que gostam de que vivamos no caos.
~ Bernard Cornwell