Unexpectedly Quotes

#1. Something has worked in the past, until - well, it unexpectedly no longer does, and what we have learned from the past turns out to be at best irrelevant or false, at worst viciously misleading.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. What is humor?' one of their professors had posed, and he had answered, 'nondangerous, unexpectedly inappropriate juxtaposition.

Sena Jeter Naslund

#3. This is terrific! What fun! Maybe tomorrow I can go to the prom with my brother. The day after, perhaps I can wear white pants and unexpectedly get my period.

Jen Lancaster

#4. Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful ...

Rumer Godden

#5. I turned away, unexpectedly afraid to look at him. I was afraid of what he might be feeling, the depth of his loss, the extent of his fears. Will Traynor's life had been so far beyond the experiences of mine. Who was I to tell him how he should want to live it?

Jojo Moyes

#6. Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

James Russell Lowell

#7. Er-my-nee, Ron croaked unexpectedly from between them.

J.K. Rowling

#8. But happy moments came rarely and unexpectedly in the Baudelaires' lives, and the three siblings had learned to accept them.

Lemony Snicket

#9. Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.

Helen Gurley Brown

#10. I had forgotten how thrilling a snow day is until my son started school, and as much as he loves it, he swoons at the idea of a free day arriving unexpectedly, laid out like a gift.

Susan Orlean

#11. But still. It has to end sometime. Wars always do. Everything has to end,' said Josephine, eating another ginger biscuit and getting unexpectedly philosophical. 'Yeah. Things like human civilisation,' I said.

Sophia McDougall

#12. He drops the pistol into the right-hand pocket of his raincoat. He is not expecting trouble. Nevertheless, he goes nowhere unarmed. One can never be too careful. Besides, opportunities often arise unexpectedly. In

Dean Koontz

#13. Every time I try to write a song, when I sit down and think I'm going to write, I really want to write a song, and it never works out. It's always when it hits me unexpectedly on a plane or right before I go to bed, something like that.

Bruno Mars

#14. No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

Arthur Erickson

#15. The greatest drawback to true love was that once true love unexpectedly ends there is no other romance that can replace it. Romance instead becomes a race, with one's new beau consistently failing to meet up to the grand expectations set by the meaning of one's existence. The only one.

Denis Fitzpatrick

#16. I've had a 'Zelig'-like career. I pop up unexpectedly. I'm always kind of around.

Dennis Christopher

#17. Jack was unexpectedly moved when he swore allegiance to the king and country. He had served both for years, could easily have laid down his life. Yet it was different to pledge his loyalty and best efforts toward governing this nation. Dying was easier than making good laws.

Mary Jo Putney

#18. And then it happens all at once and unexpectedly. That is how things happen, I suppose. You pack your bags and find yourself walking yourself home.

Shannon L. Alder

#19. He woke to quiet voices. This had been happening more and more lately, this nodding off unexpectedly, and it left him with an unsettled intimation of rehearsal. You fall asleep for short periods and then for longer periods and then forever.

Emily St. John Mandel

#20. And he had been very badly treated by a girl too. He had thought her a really civilised and adult personality, and then she had unexpectedly revealed that she was a mass of bourgeois prejudices and monogamic instincts.

C.S. Lewis

#21. The nanny seemed to be extinct until 1975, when, like the coelacanth, she suddenly and unexpectedly reappeared in the shape of Margaret Thatcher.

Simon Hoggart

#22. I had never tried other drugs... But how can any of them with their effects transcend the intoxication of a first love?! It swallowed me unexpectedly. It tied me to a man once and for all. It blinded me... Disarmed me... And made me lose my mind.

Rom Amor

#23. I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious.

Robert Adams

#24. I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#25. I'm mesmerized by the way his fingers move confidently along her skin, as though her body is his to reat and touch and tend to. She was mine before she was yours: The words are there, unexpectedly, surging from my throat to my tongue. I swallow them back.

Lauren Oliver

#26. Everyone, some sooner than others, must endure his or her own personal 'hell on earth.' It is important to keep searching for the small joys, although they are often the most elusive. Trust that these joys will appear, sometimes unexpectedly, and often in life's darkest moments.

Katie Gill

#27. One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.

Alain De Botton

#28. The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#29. Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. It is my nature to expect the worst of them. And the second is that I am unexpectedly good with computers.

Veronica Roth

#30. Never lose hope, be persistent and stubborn and never give up. There are many instances in history where apparent losers suddenly turn out to be winners unexpectedly, so you should never conclude all hope is lost.

Theodore Kaczynski

#31. The orgasm came upon her unexpectedly. It slammed into her with the force of a tidal wave. Her breath locked in her lungs as the climax swept over her, lifting her up and carrying her to untold heights.

Donna Grant

#32. I think possibilities often come unexpectedly, and what you do with them, how much you're willing to risk for them, can change your life and make it more than you ever imagined it could be. You

J.D. Robb

#33. Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.

Georg Brandes

#34. A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet.

Francois Mauriac

#35. I thought I would keep it on the ground until I became familiar with it, but on account of the wind, I unexpectedly took to the air, and the first thing I knew, I was flying.

Arthur P. Warner

#36. There is nothing that so raises a young man's self-esteem, that so contributes to the formation of his character as for him to find himself unexpectedly confronted with a task which he has to accomplish entirely on his own initiative and by his own efforts.

Stefan Zweig

#37. He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living.

Elena Ferrante

#38. Revenge is a dish best served unexpectedly and from a distance - like a thrown trifle.

Frances Hardinge

#39. The world is so unpredictable.
Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly.
We want to feel we are in control of our own existence.
In some ways we are , in some ways we are not ...

Paul Auster

#40. He shook his head. He didn't know. He couldn't tell when he had woken fully. He walked to the horses. They definitely seemed alarmed. But then, they would. After all, he had just leapt to his feet unexpectedly, waving his saxe knife around like a lunatic.

John Flanagan

#41. My tears had unexpectedly become real.

S.L. Wallace

#42. Memory gallops, then checks up and veers unexpectedly; to memory, the order of occurrence is arbitary

Anthony Doerr

#43. If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place. It is magical not because it tricks us or changes unexpectedly into something else, but because it can be so vividly and brilliantly.

Chogyam Trungpa

#44. You think I don't know that, Cai?" Maris asked. "I live with him. He jumps at any sudden sound. Pulls a blaster on you if you so much as sneeze unexpectedly. And if that's not bad enough, he's walking around wired with enough explosives to take out half the capital city." Maris's

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#45. The party blundered helplessly across the sky like a man leaning against an unexpectedly open door. It spun and wobbled on its hover jets. It tried to right itself and wronged itself instead.

Douglas Adams

#46. I'm glad," she said with sudden fierceness, and her raptor gaze unexpectedly pierced me. "Even if nothing lurks beneath the surface of the world but madness, I'm glad to know there is something more. That this isn't everything.

Jordan L. Hawk

#47. It isn't the happy ending Ingrid and I had dreamed up, but it's all a part of what I'm working through. The way life changes. The way people and things disappear. Then appear, unexpectedly, and hold you close.

Nina LaCour

#48. Whenever you come upon a free supply of high-quality corn, provided unexpectedly right there in the middle of the forest, be careful! The people who put it there are probably sitting nearby in a stand, just waiting to take a shot at you. Keep your eyes and ears open!

James C. Dobson

#49. If inspiration is allowed to unexpectedly enter you, it is also allowed to unexpectedly exit you.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#50. I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly.

James A. Baldwin

#51. It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun.

Robin Black

#52. When great happiness unexpectedly swoops down on people, they suddenly turn into cowards.

Novala Takemoto

#53. Gaiety and grief and despair and tenderness and triumph followed one another without any connection, like the emotions of a madman. And those emotions, like a madman's, sprang up quite unexpectedly.

Leo Tolstoy

#54. It's only been one day since I was deep inside here, but it's been too long." Unexpectedly, he gave her a rough squeeze through her panties. "I know ways to get it deeper.

Tessa Bailey

#55. Gray was two people from different worlds coming together unexpectedly and creating something new. Gray took the best parts of us both and fit them together into something larger than we were apart.

Tara Sue Me

#56. The first to express support of Tang San was unexpectedly Ma Hongjun. Fatty's hands supported Huang Yuan and Jing Ling,
"Third brother, I support you, mercy to the enemy is cruelty to oneself.

Tang Jia San Shao

#57. If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#58. North whipped around to stare at her. For a moment, his expression was ureadable. And then ... he smiled. It was warm-unexpectedly warm-and it made Marigold feel the teensiest bit calmer.

Stephanie Perkins

#59. Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.

Raymond Carver

#60. She never knew where he was, in what city or on what continent, the day after she had seen him. He always came to her unexpectedly - and she liked it, because it made him a continuous presence in her life, like the ray of a hidden light that could hit her at any moment.

Ayn Rand

#61. Those words are from Lynda Barry's novel 'Cruddy.' I've carried them with me for some time. There's a lot in my life I wasn't expecting. One is the realization that I stood at this pulpit and delivered a reading for my own graduation ... 15 years ago. Unexpectedly, I'm old.

Jack Dorsey

#62. It's a philosophical minefield!
Cabal had a brief mental image of Aristotle walking halfway across an open field before unexpectedly disappearing in a fireball. Descartes and Nietzsche looked on appalled. He pulled himself together.

Jonathan L. Howard

#63. I am having a very difficult time. Things happen unexpectedly.

Koki Hirota

#64. If you go against growth, you go against yourself. How ready are we to face, accept and deal with the situations that comes to us unexpectedly in our partners. It takes a big heart to face situations but above all it takes simplicity, humility and self denial to show true love and care.

William Pious Akakpo

#65. The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.

Joan D. Vinge

#66. Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#67. A Jesus girl who rises up and unexpectedly gives grace when she surely could have done otherwise reveals the power and the mystery of Christ at work - in her life and in the world.

Lysa TerKeurst

#68. Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal - there's the trick!

Mikhail Bulgakov

#69. Now you will have noticed that nothing throws him into a passion so easily as to find a tract of time which he reckoned on having at his own disposal unexpectedly taken from him.

C.S. Lewis

#70. Why didn't anyone ever drop by unexpectedly when she was dressed to kill?

Susan Andersen

#71. Sabine Baring-Gould wrote the hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and, more unexpectedly, the first novel to feature a werewolf.

Bill Bryson

#72. From time to time, from the endless flow of our mental imagery, there emerges unexpectedly something that, vague though it may be, seems to carry the promise of a form, a meaning, and, more important, an irresistible poetic charge.

Leo Lionni

#73. And that's why I love you," she said, smiling. "Because occasionally, and quite unexpectedly, you sound like a sonnet.

Scott Wilbanks

#74. The first sight of the Rapstone Valley is of something unexpectedly isolated and uninterruptedly rural; a solitary jogger is the only outward sign of urban pollution.

John Mortimer

#75. Breathing in her clean, sweet scent was like unexpectedly finding almond cookies. So fucking sweet.

Cherise Sinclair

#76. Unexpectedly, it was from Adrian. How r u feeling after last night? Been worried about u.

Richelle Mead

#77. After they stopped torturing him they locked him in the jail cell again and pretended they would forget him ... Then, eventually, and unexpectedly, release. Into ignominy, oblivion, married life.

Salman Rushdie

#78. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.

Virginia Woolf

#79. Man is mortal and, as has rightly been said, unexpectedly mortal.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#80. Maybe I should know the rules," he says softly.
"Pfft. I'm not a game." I reach out to poke his shoulder, and unexpectedly he catches my finger.
"Sometimes, I'm not so sure.

Brooklyn Skye

#81. He felt, rather than saw, her chin lift toward him. But instead of pulling her hand from his grip and turning away, she tightened her own fingers and unceremoniously, unexpectedly, threw herself down the incline, dragging him with her.
Dragging him with her!

V.S. Carnes

#82. Certain actions take place outside the normal course of things so unexpectedly that they seem to paralyse ordinary capacity for feeling surprise;

Anthony Powell

#83. If I ever went to Paris,' said Francis, unexpectedly pensive, 'I think I would be very happy ...

Jack Kerouac

#84. Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.

Takeshi Kitano

#85. The beauty of traveling solo is that you wonder unexpectedly, but almost certainly into the direction you were meant to go.

Shannon Ables

#86. He is trapped underground, suddenly and unexpectedly close to death, but still in control of his fate. "At that moment I put death in my head and decided I would live with it," he says later.

Hector Tobar

#87. Impending death had a way of unexpectedly unearthing the past so that it came together with the present in an unholy coupling.

Abraham Verghese

#88. Unfamiliar places could be more dangerous than familiar places, unexpectedly. The boy had been discovering that an unfamiliar place was more easily "haunted" than a familiar place simply because there was less there to distract the memory.

Joyce Carol Oates

#89. Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied. It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than many fantastic enterprises and sentimental experiments, and hence its singular success.

Henry David Thoreau

#90. Being a disciple means being constantly ready to bring the love of Jesus to others, and this can happen unexpectedly and in any place: on the street, in a city square, during work, on a journey.

Pope Francis

#91. Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.

Joseph Campbell

#92. This program is subject to change
often unexpectedly, sometimes in the batting of an eye. It's the best argument I know against suicide.

Tom Robbins

#93. I am always looking for ideas, whether it is in art on the street or in my world travels. It comes to me randomly and unexpectedly.

Colleen Atwood

#94. If I die unexpectedly can everyone just do the right thing and pretend I was a way better person than I am?

Anna Kendrick

#95. Humor is the only free emotion. I mean, you can compel fear, as we know. You can compel love, actually ... But you can't compel laughter. It happens when two things come together and make a third unexpectedly.

Gloria Steinem

#96. Dost though even know what would become of me? Thou dost not." She exhaled sharply. "Friends would disown me. It is our way. I would be alone!"

"No," he said unexpectedly. He turned and held his hand to her, palm upward, empty, a simple masculine offering. "Maddygirl. With...me.

Laura Kinsale

#97. Grover Unexpectedly Loses His Trousers

Rick Riordan

#98. Marathoning is like cutting yourself unexpectedly. You dip into the pain so gradually that the damage is done before you are aware of it. Unfortunately, when the awareness comes, it is excruciating.

John Farrington

#99. There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

Steven Levy

#100. When he had first started at the center, he had liked to think that he was unexpectedly cool-looking for such a job. Now he knew that he surprised no one, that no one expected scientists to look like scientists anymore.

China Mieville