Unexpected Quotes - Page 36

• The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Prayer, Heart, Want

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• It was like that. Sometimes I'd go for a period—days or weeks—without feeling the full sweep of my loss, and then as unexpected as a thunderclap, the realization would rip the protective coating from my senses. Maybe that's the way it is with trick knees and aging griefs. Totally pain free one moment and absorbingly painful the next.

  Bette Greene

  Pain, Rip, Grief

  Bette Greene (1988). “Morning is a long time coming”, Starfire

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• 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. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Live Life, Ambition

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.31, Heron Dance Press

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• That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Twists, Stories

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 17, 2013

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• We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You got to wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the expected is just what keeps us steady. Standing. Still. The expected's just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Thinking, Expectations, Littles

  "Fictional character: Dr. Meredith Grey". TV Series "Grey's Anatomy" ("Great Expectations", 2007), (2005 - ).

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• All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

  Karl Marx

  Real, Government, Political

  Attributed in a letter from Engels to C. Schmidt, 5 August 1890

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• We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience, we have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen by anyone. It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say. It can happen, and it can happen everywhere.

  Primo Levi

  Events, Fundamentals, Above And Beyond

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• Experiment! Meet new people. That’s better than any college education . . . By adventuring; about, you become accustomed to the unexpected. The unexpected then becomes what it really is . . . the inevitable.

  Amelia Earhart

  College, People, Inevitable

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• Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

  Saul Bellow

  Life, Beauty, Intrusion

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• (Al) Lopez is a great believer in speed and hustle, in the go-go style of baseball. No other manager is so determined a foe of stodgy baseball, lack of hustle and slipshod practices and so powerful an advocate of the unexpected.

  Nellie Fox

  Baseball, Powerful, Practice

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• People may surprise you with unexpected kindness. Dogs have a depth of loyalty that often we seem unworthy of. But the love of a cat is a blessing, a privilege in this world.

  Kinky Friedman

  Loyalty, Dog, Kindness

  Kinky Friedman (2011). “Kinky's Celebrity Pet Files”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Creativity shouldn't be seen as something otherworldly. It shouldn't be thought of as a process reserved for artists and inventors and other 'creative types.' The human mind, after all, has the creative impulse built into its operating system, hard-wired into its most essential programming code. At any given moment, the brain is automatically forming new associations, continually connecting an everyday x to an unexpected y.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Creativity, Artist, Creative

  Jonah Lehrer (2008). “Proust Was a Neuroscientist”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience.

  Norman Mailer

  Honesty, Writing, Surprise

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• Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

  Demosthenes

  Rushing, Extravagance, Causes

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• I love the unexpected and I think that's why documentary is an attractive genre to me because you don't know where it's going to go, so I tend to involve that as much as possible in the production process.

  Seth Gordon

  Thinking, Documentaries, Attractive

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• I always expect unexpected challenges.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Challenges

  Twitter post from Mar 9, 2015

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• After Life Unexpected ended, I wanted to do something that was completely different from Lux and that show. I wanted to be able to keep my fans, but not have them confused about who I was or what my character was.

  Britt Robertson

  Confused, Character, Fans

  Source: collider.com

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• Clearly, audiences are very accepting of A-list talent both giving them what they want - Tom Hanks is the most classic example - and then going on, from time to time, to do things that are unexpected. That's part of what makes people want to go to the movies and not just sit home.

  Mark Canton

  Home, People, Giving

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• It's hard to give up that amount of control. It's scary to make yourself that vulnerable. Because you might do all kinds of things that are unplanned or are unexpected that maybe don't work, and you have to trust the director to see that and work around those things. I find it really scary.

  Sarah Polley

  Giving Up, Scary, Directors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [Golf]is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well, and a grown man can never master it. Any single round of it is full of unexpected triumphs and perfect shots that end in disaster. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle without an answer. It is gratifying and tantalizing, precise and unpredictable. It requires complete concentration and total relaxation. It satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time, rewarding and maddening. And it is without doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

  Arnold Palmer

  Children, Golf, Simple

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• My best ideas come to me at unexpected moments, like when I'm reading children's books to my kids (the pictures inspire me), shopping, driving somewhere, seeing different things.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Children, Book, Reading

  Source: sara-mincy.blogspot.com

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• I expected the unexpected and went [on the Moon] with an open mind. I think the visual scene was described by my words on first landing - "magnificent desolation." Magnificent for the achievement of being there, and desolate for the eons of lifelessness.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Moon, Achievement

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• Training was very extensive, and we dealt with many recoveries from emergencies, and fortunately, participating and observing and existing through the reality of space was a once-in-a-lifetime experience and it was not marred by unexpected hazards or catastrophes.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Recovery, Reality, Space

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• I know I made plenty of mistakes in my tenure. But one of the things that you learn is to be very careful and to protect yourself down the road a little bit, which is to say you've got to think ahead and think where is the story going to go? What are all the possible outcomes? And how do I protect the president from unexpected twists and turns in the road?

  Dee Dee Myers

  Mistake, Thinking, President

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I used to have weird practices in crowded used-book stores in New York where I'd go in and just stomp my foot and see what fell from the shelf. And of course, because it's an unexpected encounter, there's always some magic that comes from it.

  Saul Williams

  New York, Book, Practice

  Source: www.mtv.com

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