Unexpected Visitor Quotes

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

Gilbert Harding

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

Robert H. Jackson

#3. 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

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

Barry White

#5. 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

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

Phil McGraw

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

Susanna Clarke

#8. 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

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

Courtney Milan

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

Dwight L. Moody

#11. 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

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

Aldo Leopold

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Christopher Pike

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

Gene Simmons

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

Janny Wurts

#17. 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

#18. 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