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Quotes About Unexpected

The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.
~ Anna Deavere Smith
In retrospect, the populist panic may have been overblown. Regarding Brexit, for example, the shock exaggerated its meaning. Because it was so unexpected, it became a sensation.
~ Charles Krauthammer
Feelings come at really unexpected moments to all of us, and they come so fast.
~ Vittoria Ceretti
It strengthens the acting muscles to tap into other parts of yourself. When you can accomplish something that's unexpected, for you as well as the audience, that's really important. It's also very important if you want people considering you for other projects to broaden their view of you.
~ Wendell Pierce
Fear never left me during the tour - the fear of a spill, fear for accidents, for mishaps, for the unexpected which might ruin everything at the end.
~ Eddy Merckx
If there is anything that my life has taught me is that life is unexpected and you're not always going to know the cards that you're going to be dealt.
~ Jay Williams
Alignment of business strategy and risk appetite should minimize the firm's exposure to large and unexpected losses. In addition, the firm's risk management capabilities need to be commensurate with the risks it expects to take.
~ Jerome Powell
When I was growing up, there were a few musicians who would have regular gigs at restaurants, and I always thought it was so cool and unexpected how they would spontaneously perform. Being the ambitious kid that I was, I got into it and really studied it. I was so inspired by it.
~ Borns
I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.
~ Linus Torvalds
We should just go back to, like, episode 30 and re-break from there and just make it a spaceship. That would be the unexpected reboot of 'Lost.'
~ Carlton Cuse
Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And, although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences, the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign.
~ Nina Fedoroff
My style is to take something unexpected and make it into a hit. That's what I do.
~ Timbaland
Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.
~ Brian Aldiss
Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.
~ Ralph Fiennes
And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary.
~ Robert Rauschenberg
Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
~ Ian Watson
Gordon Brown doesn't often spring surprises. He's usually far too cautious to deliver the unexpected.
~ Grant Shapps
I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people who just follow one line and that's it - that's why I could never be in a sitcom, I don't think. They're not intriguing enough for me.
~ Pete Postlethwaite
I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself.
~ Mary Matalin
One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
~ Norman Ralph Augustine
I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.
~ Lynn Abbey
Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.
~ Ken Hill
Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
~ Lascelles Abercrombie