413 Unexpected Quotes - Inspirational Quotes at BrainyQuote

Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.

Survival Resilience Sustainability

Sometimes we let life guide us, and other times we take life by the horns. But one thing is for sure: no matter how organized we are, or how well we plan, we can always expect the unexpected.

Life Always Sometimes Matter

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Life Success Dreams Will

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. - Paulo Coelho

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Life You Will Chance

The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion. - Watkin Tudor Jones

The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.

Watkin Tudor Jones

Life Everything Illusion Real

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

Nature Childhood Nothing Smell

Knowledge is power, and it can help you overcome any fear of the unexpected. When you learn, you gain more awareness through the process, and you know what pitfalls to look for as you get ready to transition to the next level.

You Knowledge Power Fear

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

People Want Creative Creative People

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

You Always Circumstances Plan

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked.

Change You Good Me

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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Repetition Lazy Bored Eye

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you're able to pay off your house. That's God shifting things in your favor.

You God Your Health

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

George Bernard Shaw

History Learning Man Experience

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

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

Life Best Me Things

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

Age Man Old Age Old

There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths.

Sonia Sotomayor

Adversity Simple Speak Serious

Charm is a product of the unexpected.

I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.

Caroline Kennedy

Life You Your Courage

The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.

Julian Casablancas

Best Simple Often Solutions

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

You Will Search Expect The Unexpected

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. - Robert Baden-Powell

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

Robert Baden-Powell

Never Surprise Happens Scout

The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn. - Christina Baker Kline

The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn.

Christina Baker Kline

Life Good Your Twists

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.

True Order Results Stability

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

Robert Doisneau

Life You Daily Street

The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A liberal arts education is designed to equip students for just such flexibility and imagination.

Drew Gilpin Faust

You Education Your Imagination

But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I've come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current.

Life Beautiful Karma Circumstances

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.

Random Just Enjoyment Just Because

One cannot plan for the unexpected. - Aaron Klug

One cannot plan for the unexpected.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

Opportunity Will Blossom Human

Writing is a journey of discovery because until you start, you never know what will happen, and you can be surprised by what you do - expect the unexpected!

You Journey Start Will

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

Money Uncertainty Betting State

Life is not what you expect: it is made up of the most unexpected twists and turns.

Life You Twists Up

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. - Oscar Wilde

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Intelligence Expect The Unexpected

Equity is the cushion that protects financial institutions from unexpected changes in the value of their assets. The greater the leverage, the smaller the losses required to wipe out a company's equity, leaving it without enough money to repay the people who hold its debt.

People Money Value Enough

For me, it's the unexpected and surprising combinations of produce that are the most exciting and lure me into the kitchen for a little bit of experimenting. Apples and sweet potatoes together? Who knew? Carrots with grapes? Okay. I may not be Julia Child, but I can do pretty well with a simple recipe and a lot of enthusiasm.

Me Sweet Together Simple

If you take control over those things you can, you are better able to negotiate the unexpected.

You Better Control Things

My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.

Linda McCartney

Death Hate Home Mother

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them. - Jane Fonda

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

You Business Yourself Without

Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.

You Time Think Ideas

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.

More Extraordinary Like About

My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Maine, at the ripe old age of fifty with someone I deeply love and am very happy with. That's part of why I started the blog.

Kate Christensen

Life Love Myself Age

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. - James Thurber

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

Age Man Old Age Old

Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful connections at a better than random rate. And in some ways it's based on trying to reassess this notion of serendipitous as lucky - to think of serendipitous as smart.

Ethan Zuckerman

People Smart Better Random

Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.

Khaled Hosseini

Life Stupid Random Sadness

The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

Time Future Darkness Me

As a writer, I try to appeal to the 'elusive boy audience' the same way I try to appeal to everyone: I do the very best I can to create interesting characters, addictive plots, tons of conflict, believable settings, unexpected plot twists, intriguing beginnings, and satisfying endings.

Best Conflict Way Try

Expect the unexpected, is what I'd say about 'Taboo.'

Expect The Unexpected About Say Taboo

If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.

Positive You Value New

The best advice is often the compliments received, and they are often about an associate who did something exceptional. I tell my teams that it's the random acts of kindness, the unexpected, that people remember most.

Barry Sternlicht

Best Kindness People Random

Passion and true passion is actually very unpredictable. It heads in unexpected directions because it's constantly seeking out new challenges. But what's really interesting is that passion ultimately is necessary for sustained extreme performance improvement.

Passion Challenges Improvement New

My style is to take something unexpected and make it into a hit. That's what I do.

Style Something Take Hit

Stalking is a cruel and incessant crime with often terrifying consequences. Victims can be tormented for years, left too scared to leave their homes and unnerved by the slightest unexpected sound.

Crime Sound Leave Cruel

Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected.

Time Expect The Unexpected Ready Well

Vladimir Nabokov on 'Bleak House' or Henry James on 'The House of the Seven Gables' prove that reading can be an exciting subject in itself, full of passionate encounters, contradictory judgments, striking discoveries, and unexpected reversals.

Reading Prove House Bleak

People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence. Don't be shy or feel intimidated by the experience. You may face some unexpected criticism, but be prepared for it with confidence.

You Experience People Confidence

Travelling the railways of Europe with a century-old guidebook can be disconcerting: fares, food, and drink seem shockingly expensive compared with what they were; trains and paddle-steamers run to unexpected timetables (assuming they're still running at all); and not only states but whole empires have been wiped from the map.

Michael Portillo

Food Drink Empires Only

For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

You Me Always Violence

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them. - Leo Rosten

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

Things Some Some Things Them

For Dad, service took him many unexpected places. It summoned him and his crew mates to the skies over the Pacific Ocean in World War II. It took him to Capitol Hill, Beijing and eventually the Oval Office.

War Hill World Service

I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Always Attention Clown School

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