Quotes About Unexpected Gifts

#1. Life is always bringing unexpected gifts.

May Sarton

#2. When the universe presented unexpected gifts to the undeserving, how else were they to react, except with sheer paranoia?

Matthew S. Williams

#3. Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.

Truman Capote

#4. As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.

Etty Hillesum

#5. [on his satisfaction as an artist] In terms of cinema and filmmaking, there are certainly the unexpected gifts that the actors bestow on you. Film is always a question of compromises with respect to what you originally intended.

Michael Haneke

#6. Unexpected gifts were better accepted when they were presented by total strangers, I had learnt.

Vann Chow

#7. My favorite Dylan song? I think it's 'Just Like a Woman.' It always makes me cry.

Bob Saget

#8. Gratitude helps us stop trying to control outcomes. It is the key that unlocks positive energy in our life. It is the alchemy that turns problems into blessings, and the unexpected into gifts.

Melody Beattie

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#10. It felt as if an only life should be better than good enough, but how many efforts for more have ended with having nothing?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#11. I don't know what I thought I'd find by breaking in here.

David Levithan

#12. Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.

Ken Robinson

#13. Agatha's last case had concerned a Sweeny Todd of a murderer over at Winter Parva.

M.C. Beaton

#14. That's exactly what made America so different, we don't have that colonial aspect of let's go conquer somebody else and make our nation bigger and that's because of the faith element.

David Barton

#15. Small unexpected acts of kindness are the building blocks of greatness. Start your day with a smile and see where it takes you ...

Edwin Lionel Flynn

#16. We do not simply get showered with Hollywood money because we happened to write a little story about wizards one day. It's not winning the lottery. It's a real job, which real people do, and they have the same real problems as other real people.

Joanne Harris

#17. The key to a woman's heart is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time.

Sean Connery

#18. If I'd learned nothing else in my twenty-seven years on this planet, I'd learned that when someone gives you something totally unexpected and undeserved, you don't ask questions.

Jill D. Block

#19. I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.

OMI

#20. 'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it-and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way.'

George Herbert

#21. ...how gracious seem the small gifts that may come - a patch of sunlight on a cold floor, an unexpected gesture of friendship, the fragrant steam of hot tea.

Martha Whitmore Hickman

#22. Love surprises us in unexpected ways, in ways that are beyond our comprehension. It's never the sweet words or the mushy gifts that matter. What matters more are little things like caring about someone and not being able to sleep till you're sure that the one you love is safe and sound.

Sudeep Nagarkar

#23. But you can never do anything like that again. You can't teach me love and then die on me. That is unacceptable!

Sam Argent

#24. I reck'n I knows sense when I sees it; en dey ain' no sense in sich doin's as dat.

Mark Twain

#25. Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

Vladimir Lenin