Quotes About Unexpected

I didn't even know I could feel that way, that I could be filled with a longing so raw ad unexpected that it brought tears to my eyes.

Man is always more than he can know of himself consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

The joys of life sometime come in hidden shapes, unexpected. Great or small, short or tall, be sure to have them all collected.

Every time you wanted to do something, you'd hope it would score. You'd keep trying and trying, and all of the sudden, something would come right out of left field, like 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.' No one had any idea about that one.

There were no violins or warning bells... no sense that my little life was about to change. But we never know, do we? Life turns on a dime.

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.

Fear is advance panic of unexpected life.

You might be a firefighter if you've ever smoked and there wasn't a cigarette in sight.

You might be a firefighter if you had to extricate someone by cutting the car doors off on one side and realized there was nothing wrong with the doors on the other side.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

When the unexpected does happen, however, and when it is of sufficiently grave import, the unfit perish. They do not see what is not obvious, are unable to do the unexpected, are incapable of adjusting their well-grooved lives to other and strange grooves. In short, when they come to the end of their own groove, they die.

It must always remain the great curiosity of history—a whim, a fantasy, an apparition, a thing unexpected and undreamed; and it should serve as a warning to those rash political theorists of to-day who speak with certitude of social processes. Capitalism

I would offer congratulations were it not for this tentacle gripping my leg.

The Mongols, and certainly Genghis Khan in particular, placed great importance on sudden individual acts of unexpected heroism. Those are the moments that reveal not just the character of the person, but the soul itself. Many people are paralyzed by fear or, equally as debilitating, by indecision. The hero acts, and often fails, but acts nonetheless.

A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or a scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before, and this gives him a sense at the same time of richness and of understanding. The creative mind is a mind that looks for unexpected likenesses.

I was not going to be killed by a gods-bedamned caterpillar

It all seemed very unfair. I'd never asked for a destiny

When you seek, you find things you did not anticipate.

People are full of surprises, even for themselves, if they have been stirred enough.

About 50 percent of great leadership is what you do with the unexpected.

You can find friends in manure, sometimes, my son.

Remember, child," her father had drummed into her, "remember that advice, good advice, comes from unexpected places at unexpected times.

Lee knew that the key to victory lay not only in terms of engineering or mathematics, but in a crew's ability to adjust psychologically to the unexpected.

A nasty surprise in a sandwich