Top 26 Unlooked Quotes
#1. An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
Anton Chekhov
#3. He that would relish success to a purpose should keep his passions cool, and his expectations low; and then it is possible that his fortune might exceed his fancy; for an advantage always rises by surprise; and is almost always doubled by being unlooked for.
Jeremy Collier
#4. I feel angry but not homocidal; this may be unlooked-for progress.
Suzanne Finnamore
#5. I'm interested in photographs that have no personal signature.
Thomas Struth
#6. You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.
Charles Spurgeon
#7. The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.
Thomas Malthus
#8. What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
Aristophanes
#9. There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Benjamin Franklin
#10. I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.
Seamus Heaney
#11. I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog by blowing it up until its obstructiveness finally reveals not blank mass but unlooked-for seepage points of passage.
Nicholson Baker
#12. How strangely does the adventurous intrude upon the humdrum; for, when it intrudes at all, more often than not its intrusion is sudden and unlooked for. To-day, we may seek for romance and fail to find it: unsought, it lies in wait for us at most prosaic corners of life's highway.
Sax Rohmer
#13. God is very good to those who trust in Him, and often surprises them with unlooked for blessings. Little do we know what may happen to us to-morrow. Chance is banished from the faith of Christians, for they see the hand of God in everything.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#14. Unlooked-for kindness can cut deep as cruelties if they come at the wrong time.
Lindsay Faye
#15. Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#16. It is one of those fables, which, out of an unknown antiquity, convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods, in the beginning, divided Man into men, that he might be more helpful to himself; just as the hand was divided into fingers, the better to answer its end.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#17. It was one of those brief spells of complete happiness that come once in a rare while, an unlooked for gift of God, when the forces of darkness, of sorrow and temptation seem miraculously held back, a breathing space in the battle.
Penelope Wilcock
#18. Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but turned and went swiftly from the hall.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#19. But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?
Salman Rushdie
#20. Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
Alexander Pope
#21. At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.
Sarah Moore Grimke
#22. Today the Iraqi and Afghan people are on the path to democracy and freedom. The governments that are rising will pose no threat to others. Instead of harboring terrorists, they're fighting terrorist groups. And this progress is good for the long-term security of all of us.
George W. Bush
#23. Volunteering has been undervalued in Britain for a long time. Often it has been seen as a kind of cut-price, amateur version of work that would be better done by the state. When politicians speak about it, people hear in the background the sound of budgets being cut.
Jonathan Sacks
#24. In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an
unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#25. I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
Galileo Galilei
#26. That kiss, I cannot describe. It was like a poem, a prayer, a homecoming unlooked-for. It was like dungeon walls crumbling to reveal a glimpse of sky. It
Jacqueline Carey
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