Famous Quotes & Sayings

Heraclitus

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.

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.

If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.

John Motson

The unexpected is always likely to happen.

Joan Rivers

In life the only thing that you can expect is the unexpected; the only surprise is a day that has none.

John Maynard Keynes

The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.

Lynn Abbey

There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.

Paul Theroux

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

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.

Julia Quinn

the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.

Pierre Omidyar

When you don't know what to expect, prepare for the unexpected.

Noah Hawley

It's good to be unexpected with it.

Mary Renault

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?

Michael Haneke

In terms of cinema and filmmaking, there are certainly the unexpected gifts that the actors bestow on you. Film is always a question of compromises with respect to what you originally intended.

Norman Foster

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.

Nina Fedoroff

Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And, although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences, the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign.

Kate Voegele

I've never feared the unexpected.

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.