Unexpected Quotes - Page 7

Always take the most unexpected route

Im not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.

Sometimes an unexpected chord change can be the difference between a good song and a great song.

There are no absolutes in relationships. You can't take anything for granted. You can count on absolutely nothing but the unexpected. You only get in trouble when you start thinking that you're some kind of exception to the rule.

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.

I would have been very happy just cruising around and enjoying the unexpected. I've never been ambitious.

But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results.

For me it's more fun to find an unexpected moment for a character to sing when you don't expect them to.

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.

It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the nicest judgment always distinguish accidental similitude from artful imitation.

Many of the unexpected opportunities we encounter are small but significant.

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

If I thought that any poem of mine could have been written by anyone else, either a contemporary or a forerunner, I should suppress it with a blush; and I should do the same if I ever found I were imitating myself. Every poem should be new, unexpected, inimitable, and incapable of being parodied.

As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more regularly than we ever dream.

If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.

Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.

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

Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

No matter how much you're expecting it, it's still unexpected when it comes.

He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored

It is not order only, but unexpected order, that has value.

Falling in love with him was completely unexpected. When you only see someone as a friend, you don’t expect anything else. There was definitely a moment when something quite magical happened and we both agree that it transformed our relationship.