Unexpected Encounter Quotes

#1. I used to have weird practices in crowded used-book stores in New York where I'd go in and just stomp my foot and see what fell from the shelf. And of course, because it's an unexpected encounter, there's always some magic that comes from it.

Saul Williams

#2. Recognition hit Victoria like an unexpected encounter with a bat.

Lynn Raye Harris

#3. It was an unexpected encounter that slowly altered the course of my life.

Patti Smith

#4. I don't teach. I just show them why to learn, what to learn, how to learn, and the ultimate purpose of learning.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Our lives are like water, always flowing forward in the streams of time. When we encounter what is unexpected, our best choice is to flow around the obstacle.

Ryan Kirk

#6. The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter would have proved a poor guide in the development of science, which often makes progress by its encounter with the totally unexpected and initially extremely puzzling.

John Polkinghorne

#7. You may encounter unexpected circumstance. Don't be discouraged. God is greater than any condition.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. If the civil authorities refuse to protect me, I must look to God, and if I die, I have determined to make my grave in Alton.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

#9. When we encounter an unexpected challenge of threat the only way to save ourselves is to hold on tight to the people around us and not let go.

Shawn Achor

#10. The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness.

Sue Monk Kidd

#11. The road itself is informative, because it forces you to respond spontaneously and to encounter the unexpected. It forces you to reassess what you felt about people or issues or places, and it forces you to live in the present.

Gloria Steinem

#12. We really should get some X-rays," the EMT said.
"You just want to fondle my extraneous body parts," I said to the EMT.

Darynda Jones

#13. Religious experience involves an encounter with the holy, the mystery of the totally other that opens like a chasm before humans in unexpected ways, making impossible the denial of its presence.

Luke Timothy Johnson

#14. Inspiration is a spark. It is nothing unless we use it to build a fire.

Vironika Tugaleva

#15. Sometimes when we're focused on quickly getting to our destination, we'll encounter unexpected roadblocks and detours. Always remember that there's more than one path that will lead you to where you're going. Who knows? You might just enjoy that new, more scenic route!

Clifton Anderson

#16. Civilization flows; culture thickens and coagulates, like tired, sick, stifled blood.

Edward Abbey

#17. How on earth do people imagine we equip children for life if we never show them the sorts of issues other people encounter, if we never talk through with them how they might deal with difficulty or violence or unexpected shocks and surprises?

Margo Lanagan

#18. But I can only pray ardently that Fortune walks with you, that you discover hitherto unimagined strength in yourself and encounter unexpected friends along this perilous path that you must now tread.

Sherry Thomas