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  • Fair, rich confusion is all the aim of an old-fashioned flower garden, and the greater the confusion, the richer. You want to come upon mignonnette in unexpected places, and to find sprays of heliotrope in close consultation with your roses, and geraniums sporting their uniforms like gay recruits off duty.

    Flower   Gay   Garden  
    Anna Bartlett Warner (1872). “Gardening by Myself”, p.64
  • 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 of OK Go: On Creativity, Design, and Activism". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • If you go through life and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

    Source: collider.com
  • One of the things I think is unique and signature about Blizzard is that whenever they do their games, and with Warcraft in particular, they take the things they love and put a twist on it. They showed that heroes can come from the most unexpected places, and as a player, you can play as a hero, on all sides.

    Hero   Unique   Player  
    Source: collider.com
  • The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

    Wages   Debt   Earth  
    Gene Stratton-Porter (2016). “Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran”, p.150, Xist Publishing
  • There are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown. It is in the nature of the discovery that it can not be planned or programmed. On the contrary it consists of surprises and appears many times in the most unexpected places.

  • Love comes from the most unexpected places.

    Song: Love Comes From Unexpected Places, Album: Streisand Superman
  • Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

  • I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.

    Real   Animal   Quality  
    Dorothea Lange, Paul Schuster Taylor, Howard M. Levin, Katherine Northrup (1980). “Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress”, Text-Fiche Pr
  • There are bodies buried everywhere you just have to know where to look.

    Looks   Body   X Files  
  • I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.

  • New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct.

  • I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.

  • Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly for your purpose in life and now found it in the most unexpected place: In the death of your flesh. It is certainly a moment worth of laughter and dance. And in the end it is not suffering at all. The apostle Paul recommended that we find joy in it. Was he mad?

    Laughter   Mad   Joy  
  • I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires are known to others.... Kindred souls—indeed, my selves otherwise costumed—turn up in books in the most unexpected places. Discovering them is one of the great rewards of a liberal education. If I quote liberally, it is not to show off book learning, which at my stage of life can only invite ridicule, but rather to bathe in this kinship of strangers.

    Book   Self   Oneness  
  • See beauty in those unexpected places. (she asked herself how people could let Bach be background noise.) See the opportunity in what looks like inconvenience. (she steered clear of the traffic jam and went to the bakery she's been meaning to stop at.) She embraces the undeclared possibility in what seems like just another ordinary day. (her friend is scheduled for cancer surgery and suddenly everything around her seems so very precious.)

  • I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets.

  • The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.

    Thomas Merton (2002). “The Sign of Jonas”, p.294, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

  • Sometimes the things you’ve lost can be found again in unexpected places.

  • It turns out most of the conclusions that I've come to in life have equally valid contradictions. I think it's true you need to make a plan, set a goal and stick to it, but I would also advise: Don't keep your eyes so fixed on your goal that you miss what sneaks up to surprise you, because magic will come from unexpected places.

    Eye   Thinking   Goal  
  • You find [reverberations from 9/11 ] in them most unexpected places, like graffiti on a wall. Sometimes it's a faded picture; sometimes it's a newspaper tacked to a wall. Sometimes it's weird paraphernalia related to it, home constructed paraphernalia. It resonates through society and continues to resonate today.

    Wall   Home   Graffiti  
  • I appreciate all of the unexpected places, internal and external, that my writing has taken me.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

    Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.173, Random House
  • But this is one of the things that makes rap at its best so human. It doesn't force you to pretend to be only one thing or another, to be a saint or a sinner. It recognizes that you can be true to yourself and still have unexpected dimensions and opposing ideas. Having a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other is the most common thing in the world. The real bullshit is when you act like you don't have contradictions inside you, that you're so dull and unimaginative that your mind never changes or wanders into strange, unexpected places.

    Real   Rap   Angel  
  • When you see beauty all around you, beauty will seek and find you, even in the most unexpected places.

    FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Jan 19, 2015
  • It‘s funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places.

  • Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.

    Weed   Guilt   Age  
    Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England
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