Unexpected Quotes - Page 7

• It is not order only, but unexpected order, that has value.

  Henri Poincare

  Order, Values

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.620, Modern Library

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• The very best gift... is that anyone can experience those unexpected twinkles of joy that make a magical moment. At these moments, you feel true, deep joy because of a great new insight, a beautiful prospect, or a glimpse into the radiance of another soul. They are the magic moments when life seems better than you ever realized.

  Richard M. Eyre

  Beautiful, Photography, Magic Moments

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• But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

  Alan Greenspan

  Past, Japan, Assets

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.177, Penguin

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• To take advantage of unexpected opportunities, we must leave ourselves available.

  S. Truett Cathy

  Opportunity, Advantage, Available

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• My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search beneath the surface of things for an unexpected sense of mystery.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Photography, Father, Artist

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• All of the government's monetary, economic and political power, as well as its extensive propaganda machinery, will be enlisted in a constant battle to drive down the price of gold - but in the absence of any fundamental change in the nation's monetary, fiscal, and economic direction, simply regard any major retreat in the price of gold as an unexpected buying opportunity.

  Irwin Schiff

  Opportunity, Government, Political

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• One cannot plan for the unexpected.

  Aaron Klug

  Plans

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• All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be.

  Allen Lacy

  Creativity, Garden, Imagination

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• Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or No Trespassing signs. They throw suspension bridges across great distances. These elegant and unexpected combinations flow together beautifully in the twilight zone, where metaphor and resemblance rules in place of logic and classification.

  Robert Moss

  Distance, Twilight, Bridges

  Robert Moss (2010). “Dreamgates: Exploring the Worlds of Soul, Imagination, and Life Beyond Death”, p.158, New World Library

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• Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.

  Paul Theroux

  Now And Then, Traveler, Happens

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• There is a magnificent new militancy within the Negro community all across this nation. And I welcome this as a marvelous development. The Negro of America is saying he's determined to be free and he is militant enough to stand up.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  America, Community, Development

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.82, Beacon Press

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• The writer, like a swimmer caught by an undertow, is borne in an unexpected direction. He is carried to a subject which has awaited him--a subject sometimes no part of his conscious plan. Reality, the reality of sensation, has accumulated where it was least sought. To write is to be captured--captured by some experience to which one may have given hardly a thought.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Reality, May

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Mulberry Tree”, p.102, Random House

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• We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly I have never yet engaged in a direct action movement that was 'well timed,' according to the timetable of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word 'Wait!' It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This 'wait' has almost always meant 'never.' We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that 'justice too long delayed is justice denied.'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Years, Painful Experiences, Direct Action

  Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’, www.theatlantic.com. April 16, 1963.

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• Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries and see the synonyms of the word Black. It's always something degrading and low and sinister. Look at the word White, it's always something pure, high and clean.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Beautiful, Lying, White

  "The Unfathomably Weird Case of Rachel Doležal" by Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. June 16, 2015.

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• WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Affliction, Tongue, Disaster

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2539, Delphi Classics

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• By close-ups of the things around us, by focusing on hidden details of familiar objects, by exploring commonplace milieus under the ingenious guidance of the camera, the film, on the one hand, extends our comprehension of the necessities which rule our lives; on the other hand, it manages to assure us of an immense and unexpected field of action.

  Walter Benjamin

  Hands, Fields, Cameras

  "Illuminations".

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• 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

  Mother, Hate, Home

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• Many of the unexpected opportunities we encounter are small but significant.

  S. Truett Cathy

  Opportunity, Encounters, Significant

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• Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets. We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past. But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

  Alan Greenspan

  Past, Japan, Risk

  Alan Greenspan's speech at the Annual Dinner and Francis Boyer Lecture of The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., www.federalreserve.gov. December 5, 1996.

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• Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

  Jim Bishop

  Grief, Joy, Birth

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• No one really knows how to deal with the unexpected. How do you rehearse the unknown?

  Wayne Shorter

  Deals, Know How, Knows

  "Wayne Shorter On Jazz: 'How Do You Rehearse The Unknown?'". "All Things Considered " with Laura Sullivan, www.npr.org. February 2, 2013.

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• I love to create. I love to make magic. I love to create the unexpected.

  Michael Jackson

  Magic

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• Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.

  Agatha Christie

  Strong, Men, Long

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Funerals are Fatal”

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• Passion. It can be used to describe the beauty of an earth-shaking meeting between two people, but it isn't just that. It's there in the excitement of the unexpected, in the desire to do something with real fervour, in the certainty that one is going to realise a dream. Passion sends us signals that guide us through our lives.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Dream, Real

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• An educated man must have a "curiosity in exploring the unfamiliar and unexpected, an open-mindedness in entertaining opposing points of view, tolerance for the ambiguity that surrounds so many important issues, and a willingness to make the best decisions he can in the face of uncertainty and doubt".

  Derek Bok

  Men, Views, Issues

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