Unexpected Things Quotes

• We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Unexpected, Truth Is

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• The best parts of any story to me are the unexpected things.

  Kirsten Vangsness

  Stories, Unexpected

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• Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.

  Alex Flinn

  Unexpected, Sometimes, Happens

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• Sometimes the best things in life are unexpected.

  Faith Sullivan

  Things In Life, Expectations, Unexpected

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• Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

  Carl Sandburg

  Birthday, Optimism, Pleasant Surprises

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• I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Unexpected, Photographer

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Numbers

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• What if everything you see is more than what you see--the person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a secret door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than you think. Perhaps it is really a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Warrior, Thinking, Doors

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• Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

  Leon Trotsky

  Inspirational, Men, Old Things

  Diary in Exile (1959) 8 May 1935

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• This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Stories, Unexpected

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What I adore is mixing the unexpected, things you don't imagine should go together

  Paul Smith

  Together, Mixing, Unexpected

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• There's a lot of unexpected things. Wonderful things, tough things, but there's always somebody just ready to pitch in. That's probably the heaviest thing, the constant amount of support because it makes you just want to do even better. It makes you want to do stuff for the fans, makes you want to do stuff for the people on the show. I love it.

  Scott M. Gimple

  People, Support, Want

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• The best type of date is when it's an unexpected thing. It could be starting as a friendship or a first meeting where you meet and then you end up talking for 15 hours in a row. That's kind of where you're so in sync that it's just cohesive and it's fun.

  Nolan Gerard Funk

  Fun, Talking, Firsts

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.

  George Santayana

  Philosophical, Mind, Unexpected

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• The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, People, Mind

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The best training is to learn to accept everything as it comes, as from Him whom our soul loves. The tests are always unexpected things, not great things that can be written up, but the common little rubs of life, silly little nothings, things you are ashamed of minding one scrap

  Amy Carmichael

  Silly, Soul, Training

  Amy Carmichael (2010). “Candles in the Dark: Letters of Hope and Encouragement”, p.14, CLC Publications

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• I feel like doing basic, casual pieces and then doing really elevated, more unexpected things is becoming more possible. I feel like I do eventually want to be able to address more categories, like active or evening.

  Rumi Neely

  Addresses, Want, Able

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• When I make films, I'm very conscious about leaving space for an uncertainty, and for some unexpected things.

  Jørgen Leth

  Space, Leaving, Unexpected

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• The actors have confidence in me to let me lead them to unexpected things.

  Christophe Honore

  Actors, Unexpected, Let Me

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• After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth...The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet. Everywhere she walked the color shouted and sang around her...In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible.

  Elizabeth George Speare

  Autumn, Jewels, Color

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• I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself.

  Mary Matalin

  Book, Writing, Promise

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• Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don't exist...

  Adam Gopnik

  Book, Kids, Long

  "The Dragon's Egg" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. December 5, 2011.

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• for man, woman, and child the tender, irregular, sensitive, living foot, which does not even stand with all its little surface on the ground, and which makes no base to satisfy an architectural eye, is, as it were, the unexpected thing. ... nothing makes a more helpless and unsymmetrical sign than does a naked foot.

  Alice Meynell

  Children, Eye, Men

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.452, eBookIt.com

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• Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Tired, Would Be, Stories

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• Will not perhaps the temporal power of Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Mohammedan world, which will shake off the domination of Europeans - still nominally Christian - and reappear as the prime enemy of our civilization? The future always comes as a surprise, but political wisdom consists in attempting at least some partial judgment of what that surprise may be. And for my part I cannot but believe that a main unexpected thing of the future is the return of Islam.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Christian, Believe, Civilization

  Hilaire Belloc (2017). “The Great Heresies”, p.95, Ignatius Press

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