Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. Votes: 7
Carl SandburgA Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. Votes: 6
Robert Baden-PowellThere is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes. Votes: 4
R. Buckminster FullerI'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before. Votes: 3
Robert MapplethorpeUnexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more. Votes: 3
Mark TwainUnexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. Votes: 3
Bob KerreyUnexpected events can set you back or set you up. It's all a matter of - perspective. Votes: 3
Mary Anne RadmacherThe song Cant Look Back Now by the Weepies reminds me of the entire Life Unexpected experience. Votes: 3
Britt RobertsonThe song 'Can't Look Back Now' by the Weepies reminds me of the entire 'Life Unexpected' experience. Votes: 3
Britt RobertsonMacau has been steady. The shocking, unexpected government is the one in Washington. Votes: 2
Steve WynnThere has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. Votes: 2
Steven LevySerial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader. Votes: 2
Alexander McCall SmithLos Angeles survives on that which is unpredictable. The unexpected courses through its very veins. Votes: 2
Ellie KemperOne should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected. Votes: 2
Norman Ralph AugustineLife is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners. Votes: 1
Rosamunde PilcherMany of the unexpected opportunities we encounter are small but significant. Votes: 0
S. Truett CathyIn Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs. Votes: 0
John Pentland MahaffyRepublicans face unexpected challenges in coastal South amid shrinking white vote Votes: 0
Douglas A. BlackmonTo take advantage of unexpected opportunities, we must leave ourselves available. Votes: 0
S. Truett CathyNumerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values. Votes: 0
John TukeyImportant benefits often accrue to states that behave in an unexpected way. Votes: 0
John MearsheimerIn many ways, unexpected results are what have most inspired my photography. Votes: 0
Harold Eugene EdgertonHow totally unexpected," he declared, then proceeded to faint from blood loss. Votes: 0
Brandon SandersonNo matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected. Votes: 0
Lynda BarryPeace, tremulous, unexpected, sent a taproot out of nowhere into Morgan's heart. Votes: 0
Patricia A. McKillipDwarfs can make revolutions easier than giants, because theirs will be unexpected! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanBreakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected. Votes: 0
Lynda ObstYour house is all about routine, not the unexpected events of your life. Votes: 0
Chris Van Allsburgexperience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur. Votes: 0
Eleanor RooseveltMaking a movie is a weird combination of planning and the absolutely unexpected. Votes: 0
Jason SchwartzmanThe unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success. Votes: 0
B. H. Liddell HartLet unexpected incidents roll off you like raindrops dancing down your bedroom window. Votes: 0
Mod SunCreativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience. Votes: 0
Masaru IbukaNo other area offers richer opportunities for successful innovation than the unexpected success. Votes: 0
Peter DruckerWHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceThe actors have confidence in me to let me lead them to unexpected things. Votes: 0
Christophe HonoreAt the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe. Votes: 0
Michael CrichtonWhat I adore is mixing the unexpected, things you don't imagine should go together Votes: 0
Paul SmithSusceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words. Votes: 0
George EliotA real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other. Votes: 0
Jaron LanierThat which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation. Votes: 0
Peter J. CarrollRegardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows. Votes: 0
Betty FriedanExpect the unexpected like a chain smoking, hard drinking, monochrome world dwelling Noir Detective Votes: 0
Dean CavanaghAlways remember to set a place at the table of life for the unexpected guest. Votes: 0
Linda EllerbeeI've directed seven movies and know a thing or two about dealing with unexpected crises. Votes: 0
Penny MarshallThe expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever. Votes: 0
Shonda RhimesLogic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically means to be continually amazed. Votes: 0
Osip MandelstamEmbrace the unpredictable and unexpected. It is the path to the infinitely creative in you. Votes: 0
Deepak ChopraSometimes the unexpected happens when you don't expect a person to come up to expectations. Votes: 0
Evan EsarPoetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams. Votes: 0
Alice WalkerHigh intelligence is to think the unthinkable; genius is to realize the very unexpected one. Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanWilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health. Votes: 0
Aldo LeopoldGreat and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance. Votes: 0
DemosthenesNo one really knows how to deal with the unexpected. How do you rehearse the unknown? Votes: 0
Wayne ShorterAs the story grew, it put down roots into the past and threw out unexpected branches . Votes: 0
J. R. R. TolkienA sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. Votes: 0
Francis BaconIf a man gives you a harsh winter, give him back something unexpected: The warm spring! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanThere is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position. Votes: 0
Bill GatesLife takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that. Votes: 0
Erin MorgensternWhen you cast away all your greed and fixation in adversity, you can find unexpected strength. Votes: 0
Momofuku AndoI appreciate all of the unexpected places, internal and external, that my writing has taken me. Votes: 0
Terry Tempest WilliamsNew fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct. Votes: 0
Seth GodinMy style is to take something unexpected and make it into a hit. That's what I do. Votes: 0
TimbalandI have friends from rock stars to Rastas; I don't even know what an unexpected friend is. Votes: 0
RihannaDid You wrap yourself inside the unexpected so we might know that Love would go that far? Votes: 0
Nichole NordemanEvery writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it? Votes: 0
Mary Roberts RinehartThe more opportunities we have, the more likely we are to be able to handle the unexpected. Votes: 0
Gever TulleyHe who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored Votes: 0
HeraclitusThe unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name. Votes: 0
Arthur Conan DoyleSometimes an unexpected chord change can be the difference between a good song and a great song. Votes: 0
Gary TalleyI am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha! Votes: 0
Brandon SandersonThe ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared. Votes: 0
Tim WintonFeedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places. Votes: 0
Brian AldissI've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward. Votes: 0
Seamus HeaneyI always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event. Votes: 0
Felix BaumgartnerBe grateful for the tiny details of your life and make room for unexpected and beautiful blessings. Votes: 0
Henry Van DykeThings can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success. Votes: 0
Dean WarehamThe twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn. Votes: 0
Christina Baker KlineLove is a very powerful emotion and when a break-up is unexpected, it's very hard to get over. Votes: 0
Leona LewisGuilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places. Votes: 0
Caryl RiversI must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist. Votes: 0
Ernest RutherfordAs a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all. Votes: 0
Peter DruckerThe one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected. Votes: 0
Charles KennedyIt's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Votes: 0
Jonah HillI still try to make the "next" book my "best" book. I want to grip and move you in unexpected ways. Votes: 0
Harlan CobenSometimes we let life guide us, and other times we take life by the horns. But one thing is for sure: no matter how organized we are, or how well we plan, we can always expect the unexpected. Votes: 4 Brandon Jenner
Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'. Votes: 1 Julius Caesar
Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected. Votes: 2 Brad Bird
God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you're able to pay off your house. That's God shifting things in your favor. Votes: 3 Joel Osteen
Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing. Votes: 3 Ken Hill
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. Votes: 1 George Bernard Shaw
Your house is all about routine, not the unexpected events of your life. Votes: 2 Chris Van Allsburg
Guests love to be 'wowed' in Las Vegas. They enjoy and embrace new tastes, new flavors, and they come to expect the unexpected in Las Vegas. Votes: 1 Michael Mina
No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected. Votes: 4 Julius Caesar
We attempt to define a person, the most commonplace person we know, but he will not submit to bounds; some unexpected beauty of nature breaks out; we find he is not what we thought, and begin to suspect that every person exceeds our power of measurement. Votes: 3 Charlotte Mason
God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you're able to pay off your house. That's God shifting things in your favor. Votes: 3 Joel Osteen
Equity is the cushion that protects financial institutions from unexpected changes in the value of their assets. The greater the leverage, the smaller the losses required to wipe out a company's equity, leaving it without enough money to repay the people who hold its debt. Votes: 3 Alex Berenson
Equity is the cushion that protects financial institutions from unexpected changes in the value of their assets. The greater the leverage, the smaller the losses required to wipe out a company's equity, leaving it without enough money to repay the people who hold its debt. Votes: 3 Alex Berenson
Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does. Votes: 1 Frank Dane
Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'. Votes: 1 Julius Caesar
Never judge others. You both know good and well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in mind. You never know what someone else is experiencing within their own life. Votes: 4 Colleen Hoover
It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected. Votes: 1 David Canary
The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong. Votes: 1 Douglas Coupland
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. Votes: 3 Archibald Alexander
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources. Votes: 1 Herbert Spencer
My dad has a dry, deadpan sense of humor, and my mom has an unexpected, wacky take on things. They really encouraged laughing at ourselves and the weirdness of situations that come up growing up in politics. Votes: 1 Kristin Gore
When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss. Votes: 1 Margaret Mahy
Learn to forgive "HATERS" and people who think less of you. Don't bring yourself down to their level, because you know who you are. Be HUMBLE and shower them with unexpected love. Votes: 3 Henry Johnson Jr
For a blink of an eye, there was so much media glare. It was unexpected, and I don't think we realized the magnitude of the message we were imparting with 'The Nanny Diaries.' There was also this added challenge that some of the media power players whose publications were doing stories on us perceived us to be sniping at their lifestyles. Votes: 2 Emma McLaughlin
For me it's more fun to find an unexpected moment for a character to sing when you don't expect them to. Votes: 4 Stephen Sondheim
When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected. Votes: 1 Helen Thomas
Adversity often produces an unexpected opportunity. Look for it ! Appreciate and utilize it! This is difficult to do if you're feeling sorry for yourself because you're faced with adversity. Votes: 3 John Wooden
Even if I never sold another book, I'd keep writing, because the stories are here, in my head. Stories that just need to be told. I love watching a plot unfold, and feeling the surprise when the unexpected happens. Votes: 1 Tess Gerritsen
Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur. Votes: 3 Ralph Fiennes
As a former waitress myself, I know firsthand how a simple smile from someone can improve your day and how a single harsh word can destroy it. Being courteous and thoughtful costs you nothing and can sometimes pay you dividends in unexpected ways. Votes: 1 Susanna Kearsley
Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success. Votes: 3 Dean Wareham
Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing. Votes: 3 Ken Hill
I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself. Votes: 6 Mary Matalin