Unexpected Quotes

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Success, Dreams

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Oscar Wilde

Expect, Modern, Shows

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw

History, Experience, Learning

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

Life, Happen, Understand

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Success, Dreams

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Success, Dreams

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
Carl Sandburg

Life, Best, Nearly

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.
Julius Caesar

Brave, Disturbed

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.
Jane Bryant Quinn

Time, Money, Rain

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
Heraclitus

Find, Expect, Search

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Francis Bacon

Him, Times, Question

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
John Locke

Men, Learned, Child

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
W. H. Auden

Lazy, Bored, Hand

The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.
Eli Khamarov

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
Robert Baden-Powell

Happens, Knows, Surprise

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Doris Lessing

Human, Simply, Anywhere

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.
Leo Rosten

But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I've come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current.
Carre Otis

Life, Beautiful, Karma

I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.
Caroline Kennedy

Life, Courage, Mother

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.
Julius Caesar

Death, Preferably

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.
Vladimir Kramnik

Beauty, Game, Everything

All creative people want to do the unexpected.
Hedy Lamarr

Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.
Rick Mercer

Young, Vote, Dying

Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Mind, Forget

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Herbert Spencer

Happiness, Bring, Pursue

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.
Elias Canetti

Fear, Darkness, Sudden

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.
Masaru Ibuka

Experience, Creativity, Looking

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
Leon Trotsky

Age, Happen, Old

I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.
Leonardo DiCaprio

School, Attention, Kid

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.
Muammar al-Gaddafi

War, America, American

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