Unexpected Quotes
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Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.
Adam Grant
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This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.
Earl Derr Biggers
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
Carl Sandburg
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To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.
T. S. Eliot
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For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.
Takeshi Kitano
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A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.
Palaniappan Chidambaram
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No one really knows how to deal with the unexpected. How do you rehearse the unknown?
Wayne Shorter
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Expect the unexpected in the kingdom of madness!
Randy Savage
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Consumers around the world always want something unexpected and exciting, and that's what drives me. I love the challenge of reinterpreting my designs in new ways each season to keep the "prep look" modern and fresh.
Tommy Hilfiger
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Relief work does not consist entirely in wearisome appeals ... it has its moments of enchantment, its adventures, its unexpected vistas into new worlds
Eglantyne Jebb
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We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
C. S. Lewis
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I always expect unexpected challenges.
Sugar Ray Leonard
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That's actually pretty tame, but the fact that it was coming from this unexpected adorable little 17-year-old, I thought I'd be getting a letter about her first rock show, but it's nothing like that - she gives me a tampon. It's a true testament to how the majority of our fan base - and I say this in the most respectful and best way I can - they're little freaks.
Lzzy Hale
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The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful... to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
Seamus Heaney
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The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources.
Brian Tracy
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My best ideas almost always come from winding up in unexpected places and stumbling across things I never could have imagined in advance.
Damian Kulash OK Go
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"I tell you," he [Milosevic] continued, "Izetbegovic has earned Sarajevo by not abandoning it. He's one tough guy. It's his". These words were probably the most astonishing and unexpected of the conference.
Richard Holbrooke
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If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.
Heraclitus
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It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.
Freya Stark
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A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
Robert Baden-Powell
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It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely a surprising and unexpected movement away from collective patterns of behavior and received wisdom.
William Irwin Thompson
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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
Demosthenes
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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 Elizabeth Lease
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I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is.
Tom Stoppard