Quotes About Unexpected

I wasn't expecting that. It hit me in a place I didn't know was there. All I could think of was one of those medical shows. They're operating on some poor slob, they accidentally nick an artery, and he starts gushing. 'We got a bleeder!' the surgeon yells, and everybody comes rushing to the operating table. Nobody was rushing to me, though.

Epiphanies are never convenient, and often arrive too late.

He feels like Frodo at the gates of Mordor. Who would have guessed that Ohio could hold such dark portent?

It had come out of nowhere—and he knew that nowhere often spat forth some very important things.

But fate is a freak when it comes to messing with your future in ways you don't see coming.

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.

That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal: from which it follows that irregularity - that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are an essential part and characteristic of beauty.

Mikä ei ole aavistuksen verran epämuotoista vaikuttaa yhdentekevältä; - tästä seuraa että säännöttömyys, toisin sanoen odottamaton, yllätyksellinen ja hämmästyttävä ovat oleellinen ja tunnuspiirteinen osa kauneutta.

He had long nostril hairs, powerfully intimidating, like an unscheduled nightmare.

nothing's news. it's the same old thing in disguise. only one thing comes without a disguise and you only see it once, or maybe never. like getting hit by a freight train. makes us realize that all our moaning about long lost girls in gingham dresses is not so important after all.

las sensaciones de bienestar surgen en los momentos más extraños...

One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw a third and new kind, which I could not bear to lose, so I popped the one which I held in my right hand into my mouth. Alas! it ejected some intensely acrid fluid, which burnt my tongue so that I was forced to spit the beetle out, which was lost, as was the third one.

You never know when somebody will pull you to them.

but maybe life is like that - you never know when something that's been hidden is going to rise up and bite you, or glow with a golden hue.

God uses those who seem ill-fitted for a significant life.

That is the way God works. Without even a hint of warning, He speaks to ordinary people, on ordinary days.

Nobody ever imagined a bunch of Orcs would steal a database table…

But I had fallen among pirates and life insurance underwriters.

Imp froze as he rounded the corner onto Regent Street, and saw four elven warriors shackling a Santa to a stainless-steel cross outside Hamleys Toy Shop.

Startled, she reached into the bag again. Another fortune cookie, another message: I MADE A BANDAGE BUT YOU EATED IT.

Fo' de Lawd!' he say, 'dat mule drunk! he be'n drinkin' de wine.' En sho' 'nuff, de mule had pas' right by de tub er fraish grape-juice en push' de kiver off'n de bairl, en drunk two er th'ee gallon er de wine w'at had been stan'in' long ernough fer ter begin ter git sha'p.

The last time I bumped into an ex-boyfriend was at three o'clock in the morning at Rite Aid. I was ringing up Gas-X and corn removers.

The change in her when it came was sudden.

Too often we presume that the unexpected strangers in our lives bode ill,or we are skeptical of their designs.We think we know more. And while I am well aware that there is indeed all manner of malevolence in the ether,there is benevolence there,too