Unexpected Expected Quotes

#1. Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?

Bob Dylan

#2. Let us watch against unbelief, pride, and self-confidence . If we go forth in our own strength, we shall faint, and utterly fall; but having our hearts and our hopes in heaven, we shall be carried above all difficulties, and be enabled to lay hold of the prize of our high calling in Christ Jesus.

Matthew Henry

#3. There was one big rule in life - the things you worried about never happened, and the things that happened were never the ones you expected. Not that this bit of advice helped Johnny much. It simply meant that he spent more time guessing at what the unexpected disasters in his life would be.

John Bellairs

#4. One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

Norman Ralph Augustine

#5. People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.

Albert Ellis

#6. A man pushed from behind by many hands will go in but one direction, no matter what he wills.

Steven Erikson

#7. The biggest surprise for most people in dying is to realize that dying does not end life. Whether darkness or light comes next, or some kind of event, be it positive, negative, or somewhere in between, expected or unexpected, the biggest surprise of all is to realize you are still you.

P.M.H. Atwater

#8. The most expected thing you can expect is what's unexpected.

Dick Allen

#9. The precise metaphysical procedures by which a book goes about writing another book need not concern us here. Suffice to say that our human scribes remain entirely ignorant of their possession by bibliographic forces; the agent in question never doubts that his authorship is authentic.

James K. Morrow

#10. The people I respect the least are the ones that take themselves way too seriously.

Corey Taylor

#11. I think books with spiritual themes simply point to the deeper mysteries of life - to what lies beyond us, to what's hidden inside of us, or perhaps to an understanding of what truly matters.

Sue Monk Kidd

#12. Love and trust are Siamese twins, as conjoined as Chang and Eng.

David Ebershoff

#13. Don't you agree? Swordplay is a dance of sorts, an understanding of the logical, most sophisticated next step. Except that in a fight, one must take the unexpected step. In dance it is all about taking the right, expected step.

Lisa Tawn Bergren

#14. If we are looking for some specific, expected danger, we are less likely to see the unexpected danger. I urge that she pay relaxed attention to her environment rather than paying rapt attention to her imagination.

Gavin De Becker

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

John Maynard Keynes

#16. The expected always happens

Benjamin Disraeli

#17. The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.

Fran Tarkenton

#18. A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

Mark Twain

#19. I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.

Maya Angelou

#20. I expected the unexpected and went [on the Moon] with an open mind. I think the visual scene was described by my words on first landing - "magnificent desolation." Magnificent for the achievement of being there, and desolate for the eons of lifelessness.

Buzz Aldrin

#21. Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

Alice James

#22. Freedom of choice is possible. Life is going to unfold however it does: pleasant or unpleasant, disappointing or thrilling, expected or unexpected, all of the above! What a relief it would be to know that whatever wave comes along, we can ride it out with grace [p. 35].

Sylvia Boorstein

#23. Hate was a lie that in feeding fills the hater with the bliss of satiation, even as his spirit starves. No, Pearl did not hate. Life was a negotiation between the expected and the unexpected. One made do. Draconus

Steven Erikson

#24. Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?

Elizabeth Bibesco

#25. I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

Maureen Forrester

#26. Trust is like insurance - it's an investment you need to make up front, before the need arises.

Erin Meyer

#27. Expect the unexpected from the expected is key to happiness though they will be far

Sabin Basnet

#28. This is one of the difficulties and pleasures of studying the Inklings; Christians all, they offer, along with the expected 20th-century psychological explanations for behavior, unexpected spiritual ones.

Philip Zaleski

#29. People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.

Jeremy Northam

#30. The unexpected only means that which you have not expected.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#31. The bar was the best place to hide in. time came under your control, time to wade in, time to do nothing in. no guru was needed, no god. nothing expected but yourself and nothing lost to the unexpected.

Charles Bukowski

#32. Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

Mark Twain

#33. When I was young, I thought confidence could be earned with perfection. Now I know that you don't earn it; you claim it. And you do that by loving the wacky, endlessly optimistic, enthusiasticall y uninhibited free spirit that is the essence of style, the quintessence of heart, and uniquely you.

Cecelie Berry

#34. For the fact is that disorder is the condition of the mind's fertility: it contains the mind's promise, since its fertility depends on the unexpected rather than the expected, depends on what we do not know, and because we do not know it, than what we know.

Paul Valery

#35. The expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever.

Shonda Rhimes

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

Mary Renault

#37. It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life.

Richard Bach

#38. While you're sitting there wondering why you've kept all the rules and you still haven't achieved everything you've been promised, someone else has been breaking all the rules and seeing all the success that comes from doing so.

Dan Pearce

#39. Did you never run for shelter in a storm, and find fruit which you expected not? Did you never go to God for safeguard, driven by outward storms, and there find unexpected fruit?

John Owen

#40. What is so interesting about giving is not only that it pays, but that it pays in such unexpected ways. When you live with generosity, blessings come to you from corners and avenues you never would have expected.

Bob Burg

#41. Craft is what we are expected to know; art is the unexpected use of our craft.

Ed Catmull

#42. Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once it's smashed you have to move into a different sort of life.

Carol Shields