Quotes About Unexpected

The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.

Empezaba a darse cuenta de que la vida es pródiga en hechos que antes de acontecer parecen inverosímiles y luego, cuando sobrevienen, se percata uno de que no tienen nada de inextricables ni de sorprendentes.

Almost every situation we encounter in life presents possibilities for growth...But these transformations require that a person be prepared to perceive unexpected opportunities.

creative," "concentrated," and "motivated." What was unexpected, however, is how frequently people reported flow situations at work, and how rarely in leisure.

Ufthak nutted him, and Deffrow sat down rapidly, involuntarily, and in a state of some confusion.

Okay, I know I said I wasn't going to shake things up, but we're going to have to get some pants on this one.

HOLY CHEESELESS PIZZA!

Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick!

I think that's the lesson of this story: you never know what is going to happen.

I enter the party with my heart racing, scrambling to find the nearest bar, and ultimately wind up talking for hours to the teenage daughters of the host, who love The Office. After answering all the girls' questions about John Krasinski, I say I need to use the restroom, secretly exit through the back, and sprint to my car, never to be heard from again.

That was the moment when I realized how cool my life is. I was trying to hit on a guy and was being interrupted by the president of the United States.

Conditions may vary. We will strive to make your stay as comfortable as possible. However there will be turbulence. There will be unexpected events. There will be human error. Fortunately, we are happy to provide you love. At no extra cost.

Había una vez un tal Jiang Zhiya, que atravesaba una racha de mala suerte. Si estaba vendiendo harina, soplaba un vendaval; si lo que vendía era carbón, el invierno venía suave; si alzaba la cabeza para lanzar sus lamentos al cielo, le caía en plena boca una cagada de pájaro.

I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take.

Christine had wanted to continue the conversation where she was, with the unappetising tray of dressings balanced on her hip. The most interesting things never cropped up when you were sitting comfortably in chairs. It was always in transient places like halls or staircases or bathroom doorways that the really important things started to be said and you had to discuss them then and there, because the mood was lost if you moved away to a more suitable place.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition...

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.

We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

The best time to give is when no one is expecting anything from you. Give when others don't ask you to.

Two thieves also enjoyed the ride with Jesus. Maybe he's coming back to fulfil the promise that he made that day on the cross. Coming for the thief, rather like a thief himself.

Did Paul "switch religions"? Or can we accept Paul's own account that, in following the crucified Jesus and announcing that Israel's God had raised him from the dead, he was actually being loyal to his ancestral traditions, though in a way neither he nor anyone else had anticipated?

That's part of the complex task the gospel writers are accomplishing: describing something as both the fulfillment of the vocation of Israel and divine judgment on the mess and the muddle that Israel's story had become. Matthew, then, is telling his story in such a way as to say: "This is it! This is what we've been waiting for—even though we would never have thought it would be like this!

He was not the king they expected.