Unexpected Quotes

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. (Leon Trotsky)
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected. View quote
George Soros
You have to take risks ... We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. View quote
Paulo Coelho
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it. View quote
Alexander Smith
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities. View quote
Don DeLillo
The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times. View quote
Larry Niven
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. View quote
Doris Lessing
Unexpected travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. (Kurt Vonnegut)
The people who fear humor - and there are many -are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities. View quote
Robertson Davies
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men. View quote
John Locke
When running a Ponzi scheme, how does one avoid enormous, unexpected withdrawals - runs on the bank, so to speak - that would pull back the curtain and reveal a little man blowing smoke? One way would be to attract a core of investors who could be counted on to never withdraw more than a small percentage of principal each year. View quote
Mitchell Zuckoff
It occurred to me then that it was in times of struggle that I found the best parts of myself - courage, loyalty, an unexpected peace - and I always discovered what I needed to break through and go on. View quote
Patrick Carman
Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas. View quote
Patrick O'Brian
There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel. View quote
Paul D. Boyer
What if everything that you see, is more than what you see? The person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it or accept that there is more to the world than you think. Perhaps it is really a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things. View quote
Shigeru Miyamoto
When I lived in Cookham I was disturbed by a feeling of everything being meaningless. But quite suddenly I became aware that everything was full of special meaning and this made everything holy... I observed this sacred quality in most unexpected quarters. View quote
Stanley Spencer
She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences. (Paulo Coelho)
"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. View quote
Richard Holbrooke
In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this. View quote
Vladimir Kramnik
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Turned the wrong way around, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied in "History", harmless history, where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevitable. The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic. View quote
Philip Roth