Quotes About Unexpected

The ice-cold way death can hit you in the noontime of a sunny day just when you'd never expect.

You just don't expect to meet dead people.

There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.

Why is it that even when you're trying your hardest not to get attached, something still sneaks up on you?

And then, suddenly, there's something else. When you least expect it. Suddenly there's an opportunity, an opening, a person or people you couldn't have imagined, and - elation!-it feels as though you've found the pot of gold, when you'd thought all the gilt was gone from this world forever. It's enough, for a time - maybe even for a long time - to make you forget that you were ever angry, that you ever knew what anger was at all.

He opened the door, and his smile faded as his eyes went to the DUNKIN' DONUTS emblazoned on the flat cardboard box in Paul's hands. Perlmutter recoiled like a vampire being offered garlic, and would have fled into the house if Trout had not lifted the box's lid.

Josh Thomas was sitting in Egan's study, reading a chemical analysis journal, when he froze in fright. The rug in the center of the room suddenly rose from the floor as if a ghost were inside and then flew aside. A trapdoor beneath swung open and Pitt's head popped up like a jack-in-the-box. "Sorry to intrude," said Pitt with a cheery smile. "But I just happened to be passing by.

I didn't know we received CNN this deep in the Andes.

Is that the moral of it all, he thought? the moral of the whole story: that there is time enough for everything? Is that how morals come, unbidden, in the course of events, when you least expect them?

Having to say 'so and so can't be with us tonight, but I would like to accept this murder charge on his behalf' would have been rather anticlimactic.

The only thing predictable about you is that you consistently appear when you suppose I least expect it. Perhaps that will be your undoing; for now I shall expect to see you every time I turn around.

The elaborate search for a word, like the turning of a chain handle on a well. Dropping the bucket down the mineshaft of the mind. Taking up empty bucket after empty bucket until, finally, at an unexpected moment, it caught hard and had a sudden weight and she raised the word, then delved down into the emptiness once more.

He could be in any mood or any place and, unbidden, it returned.

La vida tiene una interesante forma de cambiar tus planes y de cambiar incluso aquello que crees que quieres.

And if you were to come across her unexpectedly on the road, your heart would not beat faster like a trapped bird fluttering in your chest?" "A trapped bird?" Gray laughed. "Good God, man, what has come over you?" "I was trying to be poetical," Win said in a lofty manner. "I have the heart of a poet, you know." "You do not.

Obstipuit, retroque pedem cum voce repressit: inprovisum aspris veluti qui sentibus anguem pressit humi nitens, trepidusque repente refugit attollentem iras et caerula colla tumentem; haud secus Androgeos visu tremefactus abibat.

madam, the man cried, leaping to the ground, you're hurt! I'm dead, sir! she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged.

it is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams

The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.

Or was there always, he thought, as he too rose and looked for his hat, something that came to the surface, inappropriately, unexpectedly, from the depths of people, and made ordinary actions, ordinary words, expressive of the whole being …

And then the shower fell, sudden, profuse. No one had seen the cloud coming. There it was, black, swollen, on top of them. Down it poured like all the people in the world weeping. Tears. Tears. Tears.

The great revelation had never come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.

Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from the pinnacle of a tower into the air? Could it be, even for elderly people, that this was life?—startling, unexpected, unknown?

Kokia gyvenimo prasm?? Tai ir viskas - paprastas klausimas, slenkant metams žmog? vis labiau apninkantis. Didysis apreiškimas taip ir neat?jo. Didysis apreiškimas, matyt, apskritai niekada neateina. Esama tik kasdienini? stebukl?li?, nušvitim?, tamsoje netik?tai ?žiebiam? degtuk?, kaip štai dabar.