Unexpected Places Quotes

• It‘s funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Unexpected, Moments, Seems

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• When you see beauty all around you, beauty will seek and find you, even in the most unexpected places.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Unexpected

  FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Jan 19, 2015

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• There are bodies buried everywhere you just have to know where to look.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Looks, Body, X Files

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• Sometimes the things you’ve lost can be found again in unexpected places.

  Daniel Handler

  Unexpected, Sometimes, Lost

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• If you go through life and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

  Octavia Spencer

  Unexpected, Existence, Ifs

  Source: collider.com

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• It turns out most of the conclusions that I've come to in life have equally valid contradictions. I think it's true you need to make a plan, set a goal and stick to it, but I would also advise: Don't keep your eyes so fixed on your goal that you miss what sneaks up to surprise you, because magic will come from unexpected places.

  Paul Reiser

  Eye, Thinking, Goal

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• Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Stones, Unexpected, Remember

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.173, Random House

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• Love comes from the most unexpected places.

  Barbra Streisand

  Unexpected

  Song: Love Comes From Unexpected Places, Album: Streisand Superman

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• There are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown. It is in the nature of the discovery that it can not be planned or programmed. On the contrary it consists of surprises and appears many times in the most unexpected places.

  Bengt I. Samuelsson

  Science, Discovery, Unexpected

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• I appreciate all of the unexpected places, internal and external, that my writing has taken me.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Taken, Writing, Appreciate

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Contemplative Life, Discovery

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Sign of Jonas”, p.294, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct.

  Seth Godin

  Fashion, Unexpected, Arbiter

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• The thing about love was that it caught you unawares, turned up in the most unexpected places, even when you weren't looking for it.

  Sarra Manning

  Unexpected, Caught

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• I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires are known to others.... Kindred souls—indeed, my selves otherwise costumed—turn up in books in the most unexpected places. Discovering them is one of the great rewards of a liberal education. If I quote liberally, it is not to show off book learning, which at my stage of life can only invite ridicule, but rather to bathe in this kinship of strangers.

  Yi-Fu Tuan

  Book, Self, Oneness

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• I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets.

  Anna Sui

  Cities, Next, Unexpected

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• The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Wages, Debt, Earth

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2016). “Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran”, p.150, Xist Publishing

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• I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.

  Linus Torvalds

  Linux, Unexpected, Refrigerators

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• I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.

  Denise Mina

  Writing, Political, Stories

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• My best ideas almost always come from winding up in unexpected places and stumbling across things I never could have imagined in advance.

  Damian Kulash

  Ideas, Unexpected, Stumbling

  "Damian Kulash of OK Go: On Creativity, Design, and Activism". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• One of the things I think is unique and signature about Blizzard is that whenever they do their games, and with Warcraft in particular, they take the things they love and put a twist on it. They showed that heroes can come from the most unexpected places, and as a player, you can play as a hero, on all sides.

  Duncan Jones

  Hero, Unique, Player

  Source: collider.com

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• Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly for your purpose in life and now found it in the most unexpected place: In the death of your flesh. It is certainly a moment worth of laughter and dance. And in the end it is not suffering at all. The apostle Paul recommended that we find joy in it. Was he mad?

  Ted Dekker

  Laughter, Mad, Joy

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• Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

  Brian Aldiss

  People, Letters, Unexpected

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• You find [reverberations from 9/11 ] in them most unexpected places, like graffiti on a wall. Sometimes it's a faded picture; sometimes it's a newspaper tacked to a wall. Sometimes it's weird paraphernalia related to it, home constructed paraphernalia. It resonates through society and continues to resonate today.

  Peter van Agtmael

  Wall, Home, Graffiti

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• Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.

  Caryl Rivers

  Weed, Guilt, Age

  Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

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