Quotes About Unexpected

The kind of smile that has kept a froggy, dark sort of surprise in its back pocket, and won't spoil it too soon.

On the other side of the jelly-glass docking hatch they could see, improbably, impossibly, a hyperactive red panda jumping up and down and waving his paws at them.

Grace has a way of sneaking up on you like that. When you least deserve it.

In her inestimable audacity, Julia was the catalyst in my life for something beautiful. I hadn't anticipated her—hadn't even wanted her, truthfully—but there she was. A little something extra that made all the difference in the world.

I would say that grace is startling," Jean told me as he began retelling the story of how he wound up as pastor of Lagniappe Presbyterian Church, a growing congregation that meets in a glorified metal hangar in Bay St. Louis. "It's just startling. It isn't supposed to work. This wasn't supposed to work.

Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?

Amy quickly looked away from the guy. She had got to stop reading romantic novels where the unexpected romance was a specialty.

The worm was yet to come - to say nothing of the thirty thousand bicycles.

That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.

That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.

Just as she said this, the children heard a horse and cart coming up the road.

That has nothing to do with it. Abraham had no desire to leave his homeland, but God commanded him, and he had no choice but to go. Others of our family have also been chosen when they did not expect it. God has reached out and touched them and put them in directions they never dreamed. You, I think, will be one of these men, Moses of the tribe of Levi!

suddenly he lowered his trunk

Not many weapons could relieve a man of his underwear.

Cultivate the art of maximizing serendipitous opportunities.

Maryanne paid for her purchases, and once everything was stuffed into the blue plastic bags, she headed toward the exit. That's when she spotted her tail again... not six feet away. "Here," she said, thrusting her purchases at J.Z.'s middle. "Since you're sticking to me like used bubble gum to my shoes, you can make yourself useful. Carry these to my car, please." She left him, arms full of bags, jaw agape, and wend to buy a soft pretzel and an icy drink.

Non so quando, ma so che in tanti siamo venuti in questo secolo per sviluppare arti e scienze, porre i semi della nuova cultura che fiorirà, inattesa, improvvisa, proprio quando il potere si illuderà di avere vinto.

I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a new culture that will flourish, unexpected, sudden, just when the power is deluded into believing they have won.

Insomma una brutta domenica di settembre, di quel settembre traditore che vi lascia andare un colpo di mare fra capo e collo, come una schioppettata fra i fichidindia.

los imprevistos son siempre el resultado de la incompetencia

Daphne, who, of course, is full of the milk of human kindness and drips it about rather after the manner of a punctured cocoanut — that is to say, where it is neither expected nor desired.

You know that saying, that when God closes a door he opens a window, well, sometimes out of nowhere he'll do you one better and he'll kick a whole wall down.

You think horror enters spectacularly. It doesn't. It just prosaically turns up. Even in the first seconds you know you'll find it a room.

Because even though I was afraid to admit I, I felt like a door had been cracked in my soul. It was a tiny opening, to be sure, but there was the hint of something new in the air, something unexpected.