Unexpected Quotes - Page 9

• Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

  Alice James

  Expected

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• I hope that you choose ultimately to follow your heart, and learn that whatever your plans, your goals, your dreams, life will take you in directions you haven't even dreamed of. Be open to the path not chosen, the door unopened, welcome your fear, and the choices that allow you that fear....Through all the changes, through all the disappointments, the unexpected turns, the victories, and the pain, the losses that you will experience, there will always be a constant, along with your breath, there will always be one thing that you will know, that you have the ability to choose your heart.

  Paul Michael Glaser

  Dream, Pain, Disappointment

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• I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.

  Dorothea Lange

  Real, Animal, Quality

  Dorothea Lange, Paul Schuster Taylor, Howard M. Levin, Katherine Northrup (1980). “Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress”, Text-Fiche Pr

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• Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.

  Pat Metheny

  Music, Way, Jazz

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• Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.

  Ron Perlman

  Birthday, Age, Events

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• I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation. Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there's any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it's surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that's constant is change.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Running, Thinking

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• And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary

  Robert Rauschenberg

  New York, Thinking, Quality

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• The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.

  Venerable Bede

  Mother, Inspiration, Surrender

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• Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.

  Robert Bresson

  Provoking

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.46, New York Review of Books

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• Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Passion, Thinking

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• I want to seduce the audience. If they can go along for a ride they wouldn't ordinarily take, or don't even know they're taking, then they might see highly charged political issues in a new and unexpected way. . . . The theatre is now so afraid to face its social demons that we've given that responsibility over to film. But it will always be harder to deal with certain issues in the theatre. The live event - being watched by people as we watch - makes it seem all the more dangerous.

  Paula Vogel

  Responsibility, Issues, People

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• One of the most delightful things about gardening is the freemasonry it gives with other gardeners, and the interest and pleasure all gardeners get by visiting other people's gardens. We all have a lot to learn and in every new garden there is a chance of finding inspiration - new flowers, different arrangement or fresh treatment for old subjects. Even if it is a garden you know by heart there are twelve months in the year and every month means a different garden, and the discovery of things unexpected all the rest of the year.

  Margery Fish

  Friendship, Flower, Inspiration

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• In Because, Joseph Riippi says he wants this book to be ‘a love letter, a prayer, a purge’ but it actually becomes even more than that. It’s a bursting-at-the-seams dream that cradles so many wishes and passions into its wide scope that it constantly surprises with unexpected turns and brilliant thoughts. It transcends its simple mantra-like structure and becomes a reverberating world of beauty and wonder.

  Kevin Sampsell

  Dream, Prayer, Book

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• But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Heart, Eye, Long

  Letter to Harold Laski, 31 May 1923

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• The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though I were watching a bride walk down the aisle - moments as eternal and full of love as the lifting of veils, the saying of vows and the moment of the first wedded kiss.

  Douglas Coupland

  Wedding, Kissing, Veils

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “Hey Nostradamus!”, p.10, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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

  Timbaland

  Style, Something Unexpected

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• The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations.

  Drew Gilpin Faust

  Moving, Opportunity, Benefits

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• Intentions often melt in the face of unexpected opportunity.

  Shirley Temple

  Opportunity, Faces, Intention

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• The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.

  Larry Niven

  Awkward

  Larry Niven (2003). “Scatterbrain”, p.35, Macmillan

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• The only important thing is to follow nature. A tiger should be a good tiger; a tree, a good tree. So people should be people. But to know what people are, one must follow nature and go alone, admitting the importance of the unexpected. Still, nothing is possible without love. . . . For love puts one in a mood to risk everything, and not to withhold important elements.

  Carl Jung

  Nature, People, Tree

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• It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the nicest judgment always distinguish accidental similitude from artful imitation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Common, Coincidence

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.209

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• The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence.

  James Ensor

  Mean, Expression, Color

  Anna Swinbourne, James Ensor, Susan Marie Canning, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (2009). “James Ensor”, p.22, The Museum of Modern Art

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• Look at what has occurred in history. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was not surprising, but it was unexpected. Who predicted the Arab Spring? Nobody expected it, but all the ingredients were there. I think all the ingredients are also there for Quebec to become a country. But when? That's another question.

  Gilles Duceppe

  Country, Wall, Spring

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• It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.

  Archibald Alexander

  Believe, Men, News

  Archibald Alexander (1857). “Practical Truths”

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