Unexpectedness Of Life Quotes

#1. The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares," [Freya] wrote. "To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live." ... It was if someone in charge had said to me: not guilty. Permission granted to continue on with your life as usual.

Alice Steinbach

#2. Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is the essence of all things. When one is not accustomed to take repose, one does not know what is behind one's being.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#3. Gans and Savigny controversy; he took Savigny, he took Gans, read

Victor Hugo

#4. I've worked hard to remember it ... The problem is I'm not sure what's real memory and what's my brain filling in details, like a guy whose heart stops and he thinks he sees a bright light. Except I'm sure of my bright light.

Phil Klay

#5. Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?

Art Buchwald

#6. Life is crazy, unexpected, and endlessly beautiful.

Daniel Wallock

#7. Insomnia: A contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents.

Shannon Fife

#8. I don't doubt for a second that Neil Armstrong's spirit is still with us: that unique blend of optimism, humility and the utter confidence that when the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American.

Mitt Romney

#9. Quivering eyelids closed over wild eyeballs. Paddleball heartbeat, awake beneath the costume of sleep.

Ainslie Hogarth

#10. At the door fo the dining-room he left us. 'Good night, Mr Jorkins,' he said. 'I hope you will pay us another visit when you next "cross the herring pond".' 'I say, what did your governor mean by that? He seemed almost to think I was American.' 'He's rather odd at times.

Evelyn Waugh

#11. At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19 ... and it was devastating.

Katy Perry