Unexpected Visitor Quotes

#1. We meet fear. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arrives, something is about to happen.

Leigh Bardugo

#2. 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

#3. Long ago, after a bad fall, her father had explained that only fools were fearless. We meet rear, he'd said. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arrives, something is about to happen. (p51)

Leigh Bardugo

#4. Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.

Eminem

#5. You don't have to like a man to respect him.

Janny Wurts

#6. If you look at YOURSELF as the brand, then you will understand an intrinsic truth: People judge.

Gene Simmons

#7. My whole life had been an uninterrupted act of loving him.

Christopher Pike

#8. Never lose an opportunity for seeing something beautiful for beauty is God s handwriting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

Aldo Leopold

#10. The last business of Christ's life was the saving of a poor penitent thief.

Dwight L. Moody

#11. I hate having second thoughts," he muttered. "Necessary, for second chances," Dalrymple put in.

Courtney Milan

#12. Youth must be the worst time in anybody's life. Everything's happening for the first time, which means that sorrow, then, lasts forever. Later, you can see that there was something very beautiful in it. That's because you ain't got to go through it no more.

James Baldwin

#13. But though he had no striking vices, his virtues were perhaps almost as hard to define.

Susanna Clarke

#14. Don't wait until you're in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

Phil McGraw

#15. When a man's making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.

Barry White

#16. What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

John Milton

#17. In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille.

Robert H. Jackson

#18. I have no intention of watching undersized Englishmen perched on horses with matchstick legs race along courses planned to amuse Nell Gwynn.

Gilbert Harding