Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.
Georg Brandes

Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly.
Moshe Sharett

I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
Andrew Johnson

I had found myself a new mission - and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly.
James W. Black

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.
Jodi Rell

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
David Herbert Lawrence

My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.
Donna Tartt

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.
Arthur Erickson

Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.
Frank Dane

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
Arthur Erickson

Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned.
Anna Freud

The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.
Joan D. Vinge

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.
Steven Levy

When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss.
Margaret Mahy