Quotes About Unexpected

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That's how it goes, you think you're on top of the world, and suddenly they spring Armageddon on you.

Vimes awoke with a noseful of camel. There are far worse awakenings, but not as many as you might think.

Often there is no more than a little plaque to reveal that, against all gynaecological probability, someone very famous was born halfway up a wall.

And, with alarming suddenness, nothing happened.

There was a click. There was a noise like a partridge. There was a thud. There was silence.

They come quietly—like a silent but deadly fart—and they get you before you can pinch your nose.

Susan's gotta poker, you know, it said, as if anxious to be helpful. WELL, WELL. INDEED. MY GOODNESS ME. I fort- thought all of you knew that now. Larst- last week she picked up a bogey by its nose. Death tried to imagine this. He felt sure he'd heard the sentence wrong, but it didn't sound a whole lot better however he rearranged the words.

She managed to come up with the kind of predictions that you can only understand after the thing has happened, said Anathema. Like 'Do Notte Buye Betamacks.' That was a prediction for 1972.

Silence introduced in a society that worships noise is like the Moon exposing the night. Behind darkness is our fear. Within silence our voice dwells. What is required from both is that we be still. We focus. We listen. We see and we hear. The unexpected emerges.

An hour before her shift started, an hour before she was even supposed to be there, they rolled the first corpse through the door.

We dream our dreams, she thought, and sometimes they take us places we never anticipate.

When one hears hoofbeats, medical students are taught, one must think of horses, not zebras. But the doctor who sees my blood count will surely think of horses. He will arrive at a perfectly logical conclusion. It will no occur to him that, this time, it is truly a zebra galloping by.

Resisting the pull of temptation, just as we fight the pull of gravity. And when we finally fall, it's always such a surprise.

There's that unpredictability factor, that chance that something completely unexpected—something amazing—could happen. That's what makes life an adventure. Sometimes you just have to jump in and trust in the universe.

You can multiply your possibilities, enlarge and increase them... When one discovers one's psychic being within, at the same time there develop and manifest, quite unexpectedly, things one could not do at all before and which one didn't think were in one's nature. MCW, vol. 9, Questions and Answers 1957-1958, p.396

We don't get into mischief," said Mary indignantly. "It sort of happens to us, or around us, or in our general vicinity.

I once played a character called Mr. Jonathan in something called 'Razzle Dazzle.' I was a choreographer of children's pageants. That was something I never imagined doing. It did great in Australia.

We didn't know anything about Judy Murray until we met her, but once we got to know her, we found she was an absolute scream.

As far as I know, I'm not going to the jungle anytime soon. Unless it's one of those shows where you don't know you're going to be on it and they just kidnap you for one night.

Nothing I ever did I expected to do. It just kind of happened.

I think people are surprised that I'm not - I think people come up to talk to me, and they think I'm going to be really morose. And I am, but I do that by myself - no one wants to see that. It's not really a phoniness; I just kind of keep it to myself. So I think people are surprised when they come up to talk to me and I hug them.

I never thought I could model, and I certainly never thought about acting. It's just something that happened to me.

We never intended to be comedic directors; it was just something we fell into.