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  • Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results.

    Frank Haskell, Franklin Aretas Haskell, William C. Oates (1992). “Gettysburg: Two Eyewitness Accounts”, Bantam Books
  • 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
  • Discoveries cannot be planned, they pop up, like Puck, in unexpected corners

  • A real strategy is not bottom up because it deals with issues that require unexpected or unusual types action, especially of coordination among units.

    Source: bobmorris.biz
  • The wonders of a journey consist far more of such intangible experiences and unexpected situations than of factual things and events of material reality.

  • 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.
  • I poop in the backyard... I wear disposable diapers.

    Real   Poop   Backyards  
  • Republicans face unexpected challenges in coastal South amid shrinking white vote

  • When the Congress first met, Mr. Cushing made a motion that it should be opened with prayer . . . Mr. Samuel Adams arose and said he was no bigot, and could hear a prayer from a gentleman of piety and virtue, who was at the same time a friend to his country. He . . . had heard that Mr. Duche . . . deserved that character and therefore he moved that Mr. Duche . . . might be desired to read prayers to the Congress . . . . After (he read several prayers), Mr. Duche, unexpected to everybody, struck out into an extemporary prayer, which filled the bosom of every man present.

  • Most short stories have but one plot. The very best, however, have what I call a plot-and-a-half – that is, a main plot and a small subplot that feeds in a twist or an unexpected piece of business that ads crunch and flavor to the story as a whole.

    Writing   Twists   Plot  
  • Always make room for the unexpected in yourself.

  • The song Cant Look Back Now by the Weepies reminds me of the entire Life Unexpected experience.

    Song   Looks   Unexpected  
  • The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.

  • Blackouts can be fun if approached with the right mindset. You just can't sweat the fact that you've lost a small portion of your life for all eternity. Occasionally, little bubbles of memory will float up like surreal Mylar party balloons at unexpected times throughout the net day and start piecing together a colorful, if incomplete, version of reality.

    Fun   Memories   Party  
    Josh Kilmer-Purcell (2009). “I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir”, p.16, Harper Collins
  • The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.

  • It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the nicest judgment always distinguish accidental similitude from artful imitation.

    Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.209
  • It's not only that I want to get things right when I'm composing but that my imagination often gets lost, and then I have to wait until I come back to the path. I think there's an internal force that makes a piece logical from beginning to end; I like to tell stories in music that are unexpected but also logical.

    Source: www.sfgate.com
  • After she was gone there would be no one who knew the whole of her life. She did not even know the whole of it! Perhaps she should have written some of it down...but really what would have been the point in that? Everything passed, she would too. This perspective offered her an unexpected clarity she nearly enjoyed, but even with this new clarity the world offered no more explanation for itself than it ever had.

    Susan Minot (2010). “Evening”, p.17, Vintage
  • life is always bringing unexpected gifts.

  • Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.

  • To take advantage of unexpected opportunities, we must leave ourselves available.

  • Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves.

    Girl   Garden   Curves  
  • I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.

    Beauty   Believe   Ideas  
  • If you want to minimize the possibility of unexpected breakthroughs, tell people they will receive no resources at all unless they spend the bulk of their time competing against each other to convince you they know in advance what they are going to discover.

  • …there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.

    Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.26, Conari Press
  • Spirituality is a mixed-up, topsy-turvy, helter-skelter godliness that turns our lives into an upside-down toboggan ride of unexpected turns, surprise bumps and bone shattering crashes ... a life ruined by a Jesus who loves us right into his arms.

    Jesus   Bumps   Arms  
  • If you see your brother in need, it doesn't matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the idea of God using you to meet your brother's unexpected need.

  • The only thing I can count on daily is the unexpected.

    "Jo Dee Messina: On Turning Life into Song". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

    Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.53, Vintage
  • The enemy of our games was always Japan, and the courses were so thorough that after the start of World War II, nothing that happened in the Pacific was strange or unexpected.

    War   Japan   Games  
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