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Quotes About Unexpected

I think that was a moment of cool panic there.
~ Ron Atkinson
Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.
~ Ron Perlman
Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
It was the kind of moment, I see now, that could have gone several ways. She could have laughed, she could have cried, she could have reached for him. Or he could have got down on his knees and pretended to have the heart attack that later killed him. She would have been jolted from her shock. Helped him. We would have cleared up the mess, made sandwiches for ourselves, and things would have gone on. If we'd sat down together that night, I do believe things would have gone on.
~ Louise Erdrich
Jo began to dance a jig,...Amy nearly fell out of the window in her surprise, and Meg exclaimed, with uplifted hands, 'Well I do believe the world is coming to an end!
~ Lousia May Alcott
He had felt earthbound by guilt, fear, and grief, but right now he felt the stirrings of something unexpected and long forgotten. Something like hope.
~ Luanne Rice
You can think you know what's best, what's right for you,and then all of a sudden something happens and turns your plans upside down
~ Luanne Rice
None of us ever think our lives would be our lives," Scotty said.
~ Luanne Rice
Then, quite unexpectedly, she embraced Barbara for a long time. Barbara could feel the movement of the child inside her belly.
~ Lucy Jago
It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.
~ Ludwig Bemelmans
When I came home I expected a surprise and there was no surprise for me, so of course, I was surprised.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
But the earth and its beings are extravagantly wild, full of unexpected wonders. It is time to turn from our textbooks and listen to the birds themselves.
~ Lyanda Lynn Haupt
You don't see a fish in a chair often.
~ Lydia Millet
I've lost my mind, Alex muttered, grabbing her knives again and stomping back across the kitchen. I woke up this morning a boring little chef on planet earth, and somehow ended up in the Twilight Zone as a third-rate stand-in for Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
~ Lynsay Sands
But what popped up was no girl.
~ Lynsay Sands
O desfecho deste episódio da crônica itaguaiense é de tal ordem, e tão inesperado, que merecia nada menos de dez capítulo de exposição; mas contento-me com um que será o remate da narrativa, e um dos mais belos exemplos de convicção científica e abnegação humana.
~ Machado de Assis
O coração humano é a região do inesperado, dizia consigo o cético subindo as escadas da repartição.
~ Machado de Assis
Love is the one surprise.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
She barely got to the bathroom basin in time to throw up. Louis and this girl, this girl whom he knew had been sent to his hotel by Lena.
~ Maeve Binchy
Then suddenly Stevie turned and went back to hug her too. 'I'll look after her, please believe me I'll be good to her. If I thought I wouldn't, I'd go away now.' She was so surprised it nearly took her breath away. When they were on the bus she asked him: 'Why did you do that?' 'I wanted to,' he said. Then after a pause: 'I got a funny feeling that I was never going to see her again.
~ Maeve Binchy
That the things in life which don't go to plan are usually more important, more formative, in the long run, than the things that do
~ Maggie O'Farrell
I want to say that wonderful ideas can come from anywhere. Sometimes you make a mistake, or break something, or lose a hat, and the next thing you know, you get a great idea.
~ Maira Kalman
The lesson of the trickster tales is the third desirable difficulty: the unexpected freedom that comes from having nothing to lose. The trickster gets to break the rules.
~ Malcolm Gladwell