Quotes About Unexpected

Death is almost never timely, even for the old.

it ranked alongside having Vaseline smeared liberally around your ring by a guy with a sack full of ferrets.

If any lesson from war is to be learned, John, it must be always to prepare for the unexpected and face the unthinkable.

There's nothing nicer than unexpected appreciation. If you're grateful, get a pen.

There's nothing nicer than unexpected appreciation. Hallmark doesn't make a card for everything, so sometimes we make a judgment call. No, I don't mean texting. My motto is: if you're grateful, get a pen.

When I saw Jurassic Park in the cinema something unexpected happened when the first dinosaur came on screen: I felt a huge, hopeful pressure in my chest and my eyes filled with tears. It was miraculous: a thing I'd seen representations of since I was a child had come alive.

Her gamblder was in hospital. There'd been heavy losses at the blackjack table, his wife had discovered what he'd been up to, developed a wholly unexpected strength ("inhuman strength," he called it) broken both of his arms, and then moved in with a carpenter who'd clearly been keeping her company while he'd been out working on their finances.

Falling in love with him was completely unexpected. When you only see someone as a friend, you don't expect anything else. There was definitely a moment when something quite magical happened and we both agree that it transformed our relationship.

84, Charing Cross Road was no best seller, you understand; it didn't make me rich or famous. It just got me hundreds of letters and phone calls from people I never knew existed; it got me wonderful reviews; it restored a self-confidence and self-esteem I'd lost somewhere along the way, God knows how many years ago. It brought me to England. It changed my life.

Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable.

Nature has its unexpected and unappreciated mercies.

I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

It was all so strange, so unlike what he had been looking forward to.

I feel emotionally conflicted. It's like when your mother in-law drives off a cliff in your new Porsche.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

I do not want to lie so rudely and ungracefully. I will lie to you elsewhere, when you least expect it, and that will be far more interesting for both of us.

Becoming a gran exhilarated me with a new purpose. The change was so big & granular & unexpected, I wanted to understand it. .,.. Does it happen this way to all grandmothers?

This is what I didn't expect. I was at a time in my life where I assumed I had already had my best day, my tallest high. But now I was overwhelmed with euphoria. Why was this hitting with such a force? What explains this enormous joy, this grandmother elation that is a new kind of love? ... All I knew for sure was that I was in unknown territory.

As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Funny how life had its little ways of surprising you. Little quirks of fate.

In one huge leather-gloved fist Jollyby held up a large, madly kicking hare by its ears. 'Son of a bitch,' Dauntless said. 'He caught it.' Dauntless was a talking horse. She just didn't talk much.

it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.