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Quotes About Unexpected

We have a need to make people laugh at things they'd never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren't logical.
~ Julian Barratt
You just don't expect to see your baby fighting for his life. Looking back, you wonder how you coped.
~ David Silva
Demi Lovato being on a record with Stefflon Don is not something you can just make up. It sounds weird, and to me, that's exciting. I want to keep doing that.
~ Jax Jones
You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!
~ Diana Wynne Jones
She stared at the King. The King stared back. It was a disaster.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
When might I expect you then? Whenever is least convenient for you, the demon replied.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
On Wednesday, for variety, he accosted Andrew as Andrew went out to check the state of the garden walls and presented a further cardboard box containing ten kilos of tomatoes and a squash like a deformed head of a baby.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Oh, hello, Howl," Michael said helplessly.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
I've always had this feeling that there should be some loud noise when that happens," Jim said to Harb. "A bang, or a thunderclap or something.
~ Diane Duane
I shall start at the beginning. Though of course, the beginning is never where you think it is.
~ Diane Setterfield
Water, like God, moves in mysterious ways. Once inside a house, it obeys the force of gravity indirectly. Inside walls and under floors it finds secret gullies and runways; it seeps and trickles in unexpected directions; surfaces in the most unlikely places.
~ Diane Setterfield
Thinking about it now, I realize that the mark had more or less the form of a Q, but at the time, in the shock of this unexpected and painful act of revealment, it had no such clarity, and it disturbed me the way I would be disturbed by the appearance on a page of English of an unfamiliar symbol from a lost and unreadable language.
~ Diane Setterfield
Nancy Rue has once more proven that Christianity doesn't necessary arrive in a double-breasted suit or wearing pearls. Sometimes it roars in on a Harley, packing more punch than a three-part sermon.
~ DiAnn Mills
Anything could happen while the dead slept. Which was why some would say a woman shouldn't tread alone through a cemetery at 2:55 on a Tuesday morning in April.
~ DiAnn Mills
He gave me a last dark look, not admitting defeat,not giving an inch .I watched him with unexpected regret. Watched him until the consciousness went out of his eyes and they were simply open but seeing nothing.
~ Dick Francis
unexpected regret. Watched him until the consciousness went out of his eyes, and they were simply open but seeing nothing.
~ Dick Francis
The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
~ Don DeLillo
Years after I'd seen him for the last time I found myself thinking of him unexpectedly and often. You know how certain places grow powerful in the mind with passing time. In those early morning dreams when I come back to bed after a sleepy pee and fall quickly into the narrow end of the night, there is one set of streets I keep returning to, one dim mist of railroad rooms and certain figures reappear, borderline ghosts.
~ Don DeLillo
I'll tell you what surprises me." "Is it my eyes? Is it my lips?" "It's your cat," he said. "I don't have a cat." "That's what surprises me." "You think I'm a cat person." "I see you with a cat, definitely. There ought to be a cat slipping along the walls.
~ Don DeLillo
Even after you think you've seen all the ways violence can surprise a man, along comes something you never imagined.
~ Don DeLillo
Problems are often opportunities coming at us in packaging that isn't what we expect or want.
~ Donald J. Trump
It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen.
~ Donald Miller
Clowns, hoboes, gypsies, and furry animals of all kinds scattered madly and dived for cover. No doubt they thought I'd finally lost it and was planning to lob more grenades.
~ Donna Andrews
hard on a curve and lost control of the
~ Donna Leon