Quotes About Unexpected

It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not. Much later, when he was able to think about the things that happened to him, he would conclude that nothing was real except chance.

An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.

In grace, he leads you where you didn't plan to go in order to produce in you what you couldn't achieve on your own.

When people go looking for something, they often find something else.

Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It's like a jar of jalapeños: You never know what's going to burn your ass.

The angel descended when you were least expecting it. Tracy felt something quietly go click in his despairing heart.

The calendar was a mathematical progression with arbitrary surprises.

the unexpected side of a man's personality is more memorable than the proof he may appear to give from time to time that he is unchanged, unchangeable.

Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.

I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.

For the fact is that disorder is the condition of the mind's fertility: it contains the mind's promise, since its fertility depends on the unexpected rather than the expected, depends on what we do not know, and because we do not know it, than what we know.

Un choc qui nous atteint dans une direction imprévue nous donne brusquement une sensation nouvelle de l'existence de notre corps en tant qu'inconnu; nous ne savions pas tout ce que nous étions, et il arrive que cette sensation brutale nous rende elle-même sensibles, par un effet secondaire, à une grandeur et à une figure inattendues de notre domaine vivant.

Errors in code are what programmers call bugs, though when our programs go wrong, we prefer to call them "unexpected additional features." Very

I am in love. It just happened, I never sought it, but I couldn't turn away from it.

It loved to happen, " she repeated. "Isn't that it? What you were saying to Mum the other night? You know," she insisted when Willa must have looked blank. Louie lowered her voice. "About love and everything. You said it just happens, it isn't something you plan for or know about. It comes from outside and changes everything. It loved to happen. Like you and me.

The worst events always have the thrust of accidents, as if they come out of nowhere. But that's just lack of perspective.

us, trailed by Cockie Birkbeck and a slight, dark-haired fellow who wasn't a bit like Bror Blixen. He turned out to be her husband, Ben. If

There was plenty of room for magic in any race, too, for chance and for grit, for tragedy, if an animal went down, for unexpected reversals at the tape. I had always loved all of it—even what couldn't be controlled or predicted.

It is my wish to die of unique causes, perhaps in a high-speed tricycle crash, a bizarre stapling incient, or as a result of inadvertently sucking my brains out through my ear while trying to untwist the vacuum hose.

Life is full of surprises, good and bad!

She hadn't meant to do it. Falling this crashingly in love with Spencer didn't take Lily by accident. It took her by storm.

We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, G-d gives us the sun-and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Childbirth provided the drama I craved, the thrill of peeking over the primal edge of creation, the rush of the unexpected.