Top Unexpected Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Unexpected quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Lisa Jewell
Freedom came in strange forms and from unexpected directions.
- Lisa Jewell
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Image of Jason Schwartzman
Making a movie is a weird combination of planning and the absolutely unexpected.
- Jason Schwartzman
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Image of George Soros
Discount the obvious, bet on the unexpected
- George Soros
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Image of Ernest Rutherford
I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.
- Ernest Rutherford
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Image of Anna Godbersen
So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.
- Anna Godbersen
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Image of Mary Renault
There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.
- Mary Renault
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Image of Pierre Omidyar
When you don't know what to expect, prepare for the unexpected.
- Pierre Omidyar
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Image of John Motson
The unexpected is always likely to happen.
- John Motson
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Image of Georges Braque
In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.
- Georges Braque
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Image of Barbra Streisand
Love comes from the most unexpected places.
- Barbra Streisand
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Image of Plautus
Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
- Plautus
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Image of Rosamunde Pilcher
Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.
- Rosamunde Pilcher
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Image of Alberto Villoldo
When you see beauty all around you, beauty will seek and find you, even in the most unexpected places.
- Alberto Villoldo
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Image of Jennifer Estep
Always take the most unexpected route
- Jennifer Estep
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Image of Alice Duer Miller
It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.
- Alice Duer Miller
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Image of Julie Chen
I always say expect the unexpected!
- Julie Chen
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Image of Wayne Shorter
No one really knows how to deal with the unexpected. How do you rehearse the unknown?
- Wayne Shorter
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Image of Edwin Percy Whipple
Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.
- Edwin Percy Whipple
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Image of Sarra Manning
The thing about love was that it caught you unawares, turned up in the most unexpected places, even when you weren't looking for it.
- Sarra Manning
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Image of Jo Dee Messina
The only thing I can count on daily is the unexpected.
- Jo Dee Messina
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Image of Alex Flinn
Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.
- Alex Flinn
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Image of Marwa
Isn't it the unexpected that teaches us the most?
- Marwa
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Image of Noah Hawley
It's good to be unexpected with it.
- Noah Hawley
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Image of Benji Durden
If you can expect the unexpected, you can emotionally lick anyone.
- Benji Durden
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Image of Dan Byrd
Just watching an actor in front you really provokes you in such a sudden, unexpected way. You can't ask for anything more from someone you're working with than that.
- Dan Byrd
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Image of Alice James
Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.
- Alice James
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Image of Robert Mapplethorpe
I don't like that particular word 'shocking.' I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before … I was in a position to take those pictures. I felt an obligation to do them.
- Robert Mapplethorpe
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Image of Paul Theroux
Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.
- Paul Theroux
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Image of Julia Quinn
the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.
- Julia Quinn
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Image of David Brooks
Often, I go and see films where I can see the beats coming. So, if I read something where I don't see the beats coming and it takes me somewhere unexpected, that's a great thing to build upon.
- David Brooks
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Image of Robert Bresson
Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.
- Robert Bresson
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Image of Ambrose Bierce
PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Image of Laurence J. Peter
The unexpected always happens.
- Laurence J. Peter
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Image of Karen Marie Moning
It‘s funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places.
- Karen Marie Moning
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Image of Octavia Spencer
If you go through life and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
- Octavia Spencer
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Image of Mary Roberts Rinehart
Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?
- Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Image of Heraclitus
If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find it.
- Heraclitus
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Image of Gordon Lightfoot
I would never have ever dreamed that I would get married again and then all of a sudden you meet somebody. That's the thing about life. It can be so unexpected.
- Gordon Lightfoot
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Image of Peter Drucker
As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all.
- Peter Drucker
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Image of Matthew Zapruder
Miroslav Holub seems to expect his readers to act like scientists, who are curious in every direction, take nothing for granted, and are willing to accept any truth, however unexpected.
- Matthew Zapruder
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Image of Kate Voegele
I've never feared the unexpected.
- Kate Voegele
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Image of Robert Graves
If I thought that any poem of mine could have been written by anyone else, either a contemporary or a forerunner, I should suppress it with a blush; and I should do the same if I ever found I were imitating myself. Every poem should be new, unexpected, inimitable, and incapable of being parodied.
- Robert Graves
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Image of Daniel Handler
Sometimes the things you’ve lost can be found again in unexpected places.
- Daniel Handler
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Image of Nicole Krauss
When you're younger, it's all theoretical. It's all potential. As you get older, it becomes actual, and your life gets filled with unexpected complexity; some of it asked for, and some of it not. It becomes richer, I find.
- Nicole Krauss
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Image of Timothy Leary
Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.
- Timothy Leary
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