Unexpected Quotes - Page 25

• And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.

  Charles Kuralt

  Sunset, Sight, Storm

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• Films, like memories, seem to re-shoot themselves over the years, reflecting our latest needs and obsessions. In many cases they can change completely, and reveal unexpected depths and shallows. Will Four Weddings and a Funeral be seen one day as a vicious social satire? Could Jaws become as tearful and sentimental as Bambi?

  J. G. Ballard

  Memories, Years, Funeral

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• No one attached to the traditional image of authoritarian patriarchy could imagine the consternation men endure. They have suffered an unexpected blow to the emotional quality of their lives. Its gravity has not been calculated. They have far fewer reliable links than women to the classic currents of family life. They are alienated not only, as Marx said, from the means of production but also from the means of reproduction.

  Lionel Tiger

  Mean, Men, Emotional

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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

  Source: collider.com

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• We actors are superstitious creatures. We do all the homework and we put all of the components together, but there's always one key aspect that we're not in charge of, really, and that's magic. You are always on the lookout for where and how that magic is going to ignite. When you have worked as much as I have and have sought it out as often as I do, you get very clear that it will come at very, very odd, unexpected moments.

  Lorraine Toussaint

  Keys, Magic, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• I feel like movies should stick to a genre and give the audience what they want, and then surprise them with the unexpected, and not just do the same thing you've always seen.

  Paula Patton

  Giving, Sticks, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• Credit cards have been extremely profitable to banks. They're profitable not from the fees they collect from the retailers that use the credit cards, that pays the bills, but the real profits come from the interest payments and the charges to users that are unexpected.

  Richard Thaler

  Real, Use, Credit

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Things that have never happened before are bound to occur with some regularity. You must always be prepared for the unexpected, including sudden, sharp downward swings in markets and the economy. Whatever adverse scenario you can contemplate, reality can be far worse.

  Seth Klarman

  Reality, Swings, Economy

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• Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected, in this case I would think interesting would suffice.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Thinking, Interesting, Use

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• I thought I knew everything about love and relationships in my 20s, the ignorance of youth is bliss. As you get older, you start to realise that you don't really know anything and life is a great traveling journey. Life is unexpected...you just never know whats going to happen.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Ignorance, Journey, Youth

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• He (Mohammed) seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh urges us. His teaching also contained precepts that were in conformity with his promises, and he gave free rein to carnal pleasure. In all this, as is not unexpected; he was obeyed by carnal men. As for proofs of the truth of his doctrine, he brought forward only such as could be grasped by the natural ability of anyone with a very modest wisdom. Indeed, the truths that he taught he mingled with many fables and with doctrines of the greatest falsity.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Teaching, Men, Religion Of Islam

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• We can plan a roadtrip or a workday down to the last detail but the unexpected will always arise. If we are not malleable, we will get left behind.

  John Wooden

  Details, Lasts, Arise

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• The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also, as a rule, unexpected, and contrasted with previous happiness or glory. A tale, for example, of a man slowly worn to death by disease, poverty, little cares, sordid vices, petty persecutions, however piteous or dreadful it might be, would not be tragic in the Shakespearean sense.

  A. C. Bradley

  Men, Suffering, Vices

  A. C. Bradley (2016). “Shakespearean Tragedy”, p.9, A. C. Bradley

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• The unexpected always happens.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Happens

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• I want to feel that my characters evolved into a place that they deserved, that was sometimes unexpected, but where I would feel satiated that logically they have come to a conclusion that makes me feel satisfied.

  J.H. Wyman

  Character, Want, Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

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• Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Study, Assuming

  Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.172, Oxford University Press

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• Sometimes the unexpected does happen. Once, this exquisite woman fell for me. After we made love, she gave me a check for a hundred dollars. I said, "Honey, I don't get paid for sex." She said, "This is hush money."

  Ronnie Shakes

  Sex, Doe, Dollars

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• Justin Hermann is one of the best new voices in short fiction-deep and entertaining as hell, with many funny lines, unexpected turns of events, and great insights. Wonderful stories: each one is a trip!

  Josip Novakovich

  Voice, Lines, Events

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• I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes.

  Eva Green

  Character, Simple, Play

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• Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!

  Salvador Dali

  Photography, Lenses, Surprise

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• The country's 24 hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems but its existence makes solving them that much harder. The press can hold its magnifying up to our problems bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous flaming ant epidemic. If we amplify everything we hear nothing.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Fire, Glasses

  Keynote Address at the Rally to Restore Sanity, delivered 30 October 2010, Washington Mall

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• I do believe that fundamental to any real hope is that we do need to reconstitute what has been generally handed out as the recipe for "happiness" for the human race, and what has generally been decided counts as "progress." People arrive at a different understanding of happiness, however fragile it is. They find it in unexpected ways, in the most unexpected of places.

  Arundhati Roy

  Real, Believe, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Beauty means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. A lot of different ways in which things can be beautiful. But this really has a very specific meaning and which is more along the lines of elegance which is that we say an idea is beautiful or elegant in mathematics or physics if a very simple principle or a very simple idea, or simple set of ideas, turns out to be very powerful and leads to all sort of unexpected structure and unexpected predictions.

  Peter Woit

  Beautiful, Powerful, Mean

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The cartoonist's work is solitary; even when dealing with editors and assistants, there is no such excitement as to creating unexpected drastic changes for projects. But by the same token, manga can't be drawn by a lot of people, as done in film.

  Katsuhiro Otomo

  People, Done, Excitement

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think I am at the end of a certain phase of my life. What I'm on the lookout for now is the unexpected, for things that come from outside and that I never thought might happen. Sometimes you have to watch for them so you don't automatically say no to the new, simply because you're in the habit of saying no to everything that comes along. I'm constantly changing my perspective on my own life. I see the past differently, and that's a wonderful thing.

  Doris Lessing

  Past, Thinking, Perspective

  Source: progressive.org

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