Unexpected Situation Quotes

#1. My research had revealed that challenge and novelty are key elements to happiness. The brain is stimulated by surprise, and successfully dealing with an unexpected situation gives a powerful sense of satisfaction.

Gretchen Rubin

#2. A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected ... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.

Kara Walker

#3. To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of knowledge had a fertilizing quality and her imagination was strong. There was at this time, however, a want of lightness in her situation, which the arrival of an unexpected visitor did much to dispel.

Henry James

#4. This feeling of lessening disturbance, coming from within myself, unexpected, was profoundly disturbing. As I sat still, growing less and less alarmed by the situation, I knew that I had to move fast, as fast and as far as I could within this small, cramped house.

Alexandra Kleeman

#5. The far object of a training system is to prepare the combat officer mentally so that he can cope with the unusual and unexpected as if it were the altogether normal and give him poise in a situation where all else is in disequilibrium.

Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

#6. Stories were so easy to control. Lady Lynx escaped because Zenobia created an escapable situation, and if anything unexpected happened to her characters, Zenobia had a clever plan to get them out of their new fix.

Meljean Brook

#7. It matters to me, Mays. It matters a lot. I don't like seeing some other guy touching you. Not when it should be me touching you

A Meredith Walters

#8. We cannot decide who is on right path and who is not because our own life is series of unexpected events passing through time, situation and circumstances.

Santosh Kalwar

#9. We'd never know what was real and what wasn't about each other. That was the beauty of our shared fiction.

Leah Raeder

#10. A leader can never be happy until his people are happy.

Genghis Khan

#11. In Cuba and specifically in Havana there's a sort of energy that turns every situation into something unexpected.

Fernando Perez

#12. There is so much we can do to save lives on our roads.

Michelle Yeoh

#13. Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.

Pat Burns

#14. The situation collapsed completely at dinner one September evening. Perhaps it was the full moon that drove me to madness, or the gnawing, relentless emptiness of my heart. Whatever the trigger, the powder had been well packed, and my explosion, though shocking, was not altogether unexpected.

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

#15. A false sense of security is the only kind there is.

Michael Meade

#16. I go back to December, turn around and make it alright I go back to December, turn around and change my own mind I go back to December all the time

Taylor Swift

#17. Though this situation is extreme, have you ever found yourself in an unexpected place but where, deep down, you knew you were supposed to be?

C.S. Lewis

#18. Freedom is not doing what you want when you want. Freedom is the power to do what has to be done when it needs to be done.

Hugh Douglas