Quotes About Unexpected Beauty

#1. I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don't know if God even exists, although I confess that I sometimes find myself praying in times of great fear, or despair, or astonishment at a display of unexpected beauty.

Jon Krakauer

#2. Fortuitous, unexpected beauty is the best beauty because it is unique, and what is unique is remembered.

Donna Lynn Hope

#3. He stared at her the way folks stare at a rainbow, taking in all that unexpected beauty, not wanting to look away in case it might disappear.

Shannon Wiersbitzky

#4. The reason I'm an actor and am trying to make my way in drama is to move people, to affect people, to gain a response - so these people who come up to you in the street are your audience.

Rob James-Collier

#5. Of course it's kitsch, and of course our love for every cult figure gets called kitsch when we want to separate the suffering it requires to create a symbol that lives in the world from the ravages of one's own life.

W. Scott Poole

#6. One unexpected bonus of motherhood is the visual beauty. I am enchanted by the sights of my children, the tones of skin, the clear eyes, the grace, the curve of a hand and cheek, to see them racing across the back lawn in a certain slant of light.

Jaroldeen Edwards

#7. Sometimes there's no map when you go to new places, you have to make unexpected turns, but the beauty is these places are new.

Christopher Hawke

#8. I think people can live a religious life and yet believe in things maybe outside the box a little bit.

Billy Bob Thornton

#9. I'm realistic. And realistically, I'm not that type of player that earns that type of money any more. So I'd be willing to take a little cut to get a couple of extra years.

Brett Hull

#10. [In my dream] they slide their lips over my skin, whispering whispering whispering. They tell me their names, they tell me their lives, they tell me their pain ... I can't struggle, I can't stop laughing, I can't resist these people who once were.

Carrie Ryan

#11. Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.

Oprah Winfrey

#12. For those who have experienced the joy of being alone with nature there is really little need for me to say much more; for those who have not, no words of mine can ever describe the powerful, almost mystical knowledge of beauty and eternity that come, suddenly, and all unexpected.

Jane Goodall

#13. I think beauty is youth; it's energy. I'm attracted to imperfection, style, confidence, and experimentation. So beauty, to me, is really a lot of things. It's kind of unexpected-what surprises you.

Marc Jacobs

#14. That even within its ugliness, there lay a surprising beauty, breathtaking because it was so unexpected.

Justina Chen

#15. I was madly in love with life.

Hedy Lamarr

#16. It's funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places.

Karen Marie Moning

#17. Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

Saul Bellow

#18. The unexpected explosion of color and noise and beauty in her world has left her awed.

Stephanie Perkins

#19. This is the beauty of imagination. An unexpected dead end in one journey is merely an opportunity to set a new course for another.

Sean Patrick

#20. 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

#21. I was crazy. I was broken. I was dead.
And then, one day I wasn't. It took months and it took grace and it took some unexpected slight shift of sadness that slipped just enough, just barely enough to make room for beauty.

Lynne Branard

#22. I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.

Jeff VanderMeer

#23. That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity - that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are an essential part and characteristic of beauty.

Charles Baudelaire

#24. We were sent into the world alive with beauty. As soon as we choose Beauty, unseen forces conspire to guide and encourage us towards unexpected forms of compassion, healing and creativity.

John O'Donohue

#25. I was in the South of France, in Saint-Tropez and I met her when it was totally unexpected. I was very lucky because she was the most beautiful woman in the world at the time. I photographed her very quickly, she was not easy as a model, but her beauty transcended anything I had seen before.

Bert Stern

#26. What do you think of that? It's stopped raining."
I'm glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#27. That was what counted, she told herself: those unexpected moments of appreciation, unanticipated glimpses of beauty or kindness - any of the things that attached us to this world, that made us forget, even for a moment, its pain and its transience.

Alexander McCall Smith

#28. To really have that awareness, to be as open as possible, all the time, to beauty and cruelty and stupid human fallibility and unexpected grace.

Joel Lovell

#29. The beauty of the unexpected lies within the surprise of the momentum,
not only at its tipping point, but also within all the moments waiting.

Akilnathan Logeswaran

#30. Be Hard On a Woman Only When Making Love to Her

Sharon Esther Lampert

#31. Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent.

Emile M. Cioran

#32. Poetry, Shakespeare and opera, are like mumps and should be caught when young. In the unhappy event that there is a postponement to mature years, the results may be devastating.

Dimitris Mita

#33. I find inspiration everywhere. I love challenges and my favorite thing is to find something ridiculous and be like "if it's all that I have available to me, I am gonna make it look the best that I can".

Beth Ditto

#34. When you see beauty all around you, beauty will seek and find you, even in the most unexpected places.

Alberto Villoldo

#35. The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected.

Bob Barker

#36. There was a certain beauty in waiting. This is why he didn't immediately put his hands on her. Even though every fiber of his being cried out for him to touch her, he held back and contemplated this unexpected moment.
Grady Bergeron, my hero in Watch Me

Riley Murphy

#37. Life is crazy, unexpected, and endlessly beautiful.

Daniel Wallock

#38. Muriel, my mother, was my main confidant. She was a teacher of English at Watford grammar school but took a break while my sister Madeleine and I were children. She held court in the kitchen, and we talked about everything.

John Sulston

#39. When the Self learns to observe the Universe through the eyes of the Spirit, it perceives only Love

Ivan Figueroa-Otero