Quotes About When The Unexpected Happens

#1. Even if I never sold another book, I'd keep writing, because the stories are here, in my head. Stories that just need to be told. I love watching a plot unfold, and feeling the surprise when the unexpected happens.

Tess Gerritsen

#2. Like a sudden thaw in the middle of winter, grace happens at unexpected moments. It stops us short, catches the breath, disarms. If we manipulate it, try to control it, somehow earn it, that would not be grace. Yet not everyone has tasted of that amazing grace, and not everyone believes in it.

Philip Yancey

#3. The unexpected always happens.

Laurence J. Peter

#4. As it happens, most studies have found that unexpected rewards are much less destructive than the rewards people are told about beforehand and are deliberately trying to obtain.

Alfie Kohn

#5. The expected always happens

Benjamin Disraeli

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

George Bernard Shaw

#7. The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.

John Maynard Keynes

#8. Moments of unexpected sweetness happen when romance enters, which always happens in songs - if just for a split second.

Dan Bejar

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

Paul Theroux

#10. If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

Fay Weldon

#11. When seasoned by the subtleties of accident, harmony, favor, wisdom, and inevitability, luck takes on the cast of serendipity. Serendipity happens when a well-trained mind looking for one things encounters something else: the unexpected.

Margot Lee Shetterly

#12. Expect the unexpected, they say, but once the unexpected happens, the last thing you expect is that it will happen again.

Paul Auster

#13. Reality's not strange, not unexpected.Reality doesn't reside in the hallucination of events. Reality is uneventfulness, vacancy, flatness. Reality is that nothing happens.

Graham Swift

#14. In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.

John Pentland Mahaffy

#15. It's the stuff that happens right in front of your face when there's no routine and everything is unexpected. That's what I want to write about.

Harvey Pekar

#16. There are mornings on this road trip as the early light gathers itself, something quite unexpected happens. My camera pushes me aside and takes on a life of it's own, conspiring with nature and becoming a veritable paintbrush. I'd like to take credit for the end result, but I know it would be a lie.

Stephen Braxton Thompson

#17. The worst crime of all would be that a mistake happens and no one talks about it or learns from it. So, as unsettling as it is to think about, these mistakes, complications and unexpected outcomes get discussed openly, and everyone hopefully gains something from it.

Sanjay Gupta

#18. When things go smoothly, then we can pretend we are something very special. But something happens, something unexpected, then we are forced to act like normal human beings.

Dalai Lama XIV

#19. Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

Norton Juster

#20. As I understand it, a born executive is a guy who, when anything difficult or unexpected happens, yells for somebody to come and help him.

Rex Stout

#21. What I like about The Meddler style of movie is that it's a fairly lighthearted romantic comedy, but there are hidden moments where something happens that's unexpected, that hopefully have some kind of emotional resonance that you didn't see coming. I love when a film does that.

Susan Sarandon

#22. Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected - whether it's movies or people or relationships. I'm always ready for the punch directly between the eyes. So I get hurt, but I never get hurt. Happens all the time.

Brian Grazer

#23. So, there you have it, you get up and go to school, thinking it's just another ordinary day and the next thing you know, something totally unexpected happens! Life's like that. I guess it's like Forrest Gump said about the box of chocolates-you just never know what you're going to get!

Melody Carlson

#24. Sometimes the unexpected happens when you don't expect a person to come up to expectations.

Evan Esar

#25. As soon as we think we are safe, something unexpected happens.

Gautama Buddha

#26. The unexpected is always likely to happen.

John Motson

#27. In my books, there is always a prince, and he always happens upon the damsel in the most unexpected places.

MarcyKate Connolly

#28. Look how often the unexpected happens - yet we still never expect it.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#29. On the whole, when the unexpected danger happens to you, you're thinking so fast, you're thinking so hard, every bit of you is alive to 'What should I do?' 'What can I do?' There isn't a lot of time for contemplation.

Kate Adie

#30. A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

Robert Baden-Powell