logo

Quotes About Unexpectedly

you moved about ceaselessly from one activity to another with that strangely light expression that comes just before smiling. Perhaps you were unaware of it, but it was indeed a curious expression. I believe I proposed marriage to you precisely because I was unexpectedly taken by that look.
~ K?b? Abe
Little did we know it would be watched by millions of people and break viewing records.
~ Douglas Wilson
Have you caught cold?' 'It would appear so.' 'You could give it to Margaret,' Ramses suggested. His uncle turned the tinted spectacles toward him and then, unexpectedly, bust into laughter. 'What a charming idea. Will you aid and abet me when I catch her in a close embrace and breathe heavily on her?
~ Elizabeth Peters
Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, of smells, of places, of little things that happened to us and which come back, unexpectedly, to remind us who we are.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Oh, don't I wish I could manage things for you as I do for my heroines! You're pretty enough and good enough already, so I'd have some rich relation leave you a fortune unexpectedly; then you'd dash out as an heiress, scorn everyone who has slighted you, go abroad, and como home my Lady Something in a blaze of splendor and elegance.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Barton even reassured reporters that it had been unsought.
~ Ron Chernow
The gift is for you...The surprise is for me.
~ Foer
May I point out something? You always use true and truthfully, when you speak and when you write. Or you say: unexpectedly. But when do people ever speak truthfully and when do things ever happen unexpectedly? You know better than I that it's all a fraud and that one thing follows another and then another. I don't do anything truthfully anymore, Lenu. And I've learned to pay attention to things. Only idiots believe that they happen unexpectedly.
~ Elena Ferrante
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
~ Arthur Erickson
Certain actions take place outside the normal course of things so unexpectedly that they seem to paralyse ordinary capacity for feeling surprise;
~ Anthony Powell
the scent in the barn unexpectedly pleasant, what with those little bursts of chrysanthemum extract and rosemary oil to keep the flies at bay.
~ Barbara Delinsky
Stuart, who had just witnessed me go through an entire rainbow of emotions and experiences. There was parents-have-just-been-jailed me, stuck-in-a-strange-town me, insane-and-can't-shut-up me, kind-of-snarky-to-the-strange-guy-trying-to-be-helpful me, breakup me, and the extremely popular jump-on-top-of-you-unexpectedly me.
~ Maureen Johnson
NOTE TO SELF: Humans tend to pop up where you least expect them-and some of them have whistles.
~ Betty G. Birney
Sometimes, wonderful, great fortune unexpectedly emerges phoenix-like from the ashes of disasters. Sometimes a crisis is required to spark needed transformation and growth.
~ Judika Illes
I got my SAG card quite unexpectedly. I was here in Los Angeles doing a play called 'Vanities' - it was 1976, I believe - and I got invited by Dustin Hoffman, whom I'd met in New York, to come audition for a movie he was directing.
~ Kathy Bates
O Ruler of Olympus, why did it please thee to add more care to worried mortals by letting them learn of future slaughters by means of cruel omens! Whatever thou hast in store, do it unexpectedly; let the minds of men be blind to their future fate: let him who fears, still cling to hope!]
~ Michel de Montaigne
stay his arm. "Dalton, don't! It's bad luck to kill a raven!" Her intervention, and the bird unexpectedly ducking, caused him to miss an easy kill.
~ Terry Goodkind
If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called "Damn It".
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The worst thing a general can ever say is, Hell, I never expected that.
~ Tom Holt
There was Ireland in his voice, dreamy wisps of it that could, unexpectedly, wind around her heart.
~ J.D. Robb
I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.
~ Jodi Rell
I had found myself a new mission - and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly.
~ James Black
There were moments in life when one opened wide one's soul just as one might open wide one's purse if an evening's entertainment were proving unexpectedly costly but also unexpectedly novel.
~ James Hilton
There is one bright side to this, said Fang. Yeah? What's that? The new and improved Erasers would mutilate us before they killed us? He grinned at me so unexpectedly I forgot to flap for a second and dropped several feet. You looove me, he crooned smugly. Holding his arms out wide he added, You love me this much. My shriek of appalled rage could probably be heard in California, or maybe Hawaii.
~ James Patterson