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If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.

He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored

If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find it.

We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience, we have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen by anyone. It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say. It can happen, and it can happen everywhere.

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

I thought I knew everything about love and relationships in my 20s, the ignorance of youth is bliss. As you get older, you start to realise that you don't really know anything and life is a great traveling journey. Life is unexpected...you just never know whats going to happen.

Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an unexpected blow on our Pacific possessions. Radio makes surprise impossible.

The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.

Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else - above all, a travel bureau - arrange everything before-hand?

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

Many of the unexpected opportunities we encounter are small but significant.

For me it's more fun to find an unexpected moment for a character to sing when you don't expect them to.

It is the individual's ability to deal with the unexpected that characterizes the difference between success and failure.

Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.

Always make room for the unexpected in yourself.

Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.

Mental illness doesn't choose the most talented or the smartest or the richest or the poorest. It shows no mercy and often arrives like an unexpected storm, dropping an endless downpour on young dreams.

What we have here is an unexpected touchdown on the runway of the heart.

Intentions often melt in the face of unexpected opportunity.

I always expect unexpected challenges.

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.

Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.

Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others...

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.

No one really knows how to deal with the unexpected. How do you rehearse the unknown?

As I understand it, a born executive is a guy who, when anything difficult or unexpected happens, yells for somebody to come and help him.

There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existence is paid for in some way, except for that one moment, which is free.

If I thought that any poem of mine could have been written by anyone else, either a contemporary or a forerunner, I should suppress it with a blush; and I should do the same if I ever found I were imitating myself. Every poem should be new, unexpected, inimitable, and incapable of being parodied.

As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more regularly than we ever dream.

You had some unexpected help. You had help from God! Essentially, it became a handicap match! Me vs you and God!

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.

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge.

Truly unexpected tidings make both ears tingle.

Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.

The best thing for an actor to do is take your attention off of how you feel about it, and put it on striving to obtain a particular objective. The happy result is that it brings out all this unexpected stuff in yourself.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

I have learned this at least by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

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

Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?

This spirited new musical is American history...but with a 'Forrest Gump'-type twist, as Liberty Smith, an everyman hero and the 'forgotten' founding father, crosses paths with historical giants and influences great events in funny and unexpected ways.

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.

PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.

There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.

We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.

The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole.

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence; For courage mounteth with occasion.

We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, G-d gives us the sun-and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that w

Unexpected travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.

It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.

We are in the the very midst of a revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.

Objects of the most stupendous magnitude, and measure in which the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn are intimately interested, are now before us. We are in the very midst of a revolution the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.

In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.

May your life be crowded with unexpected joys.

When you live with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen

As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all.

We can plan a roadtrip or a workday down to the last detail but the unexpected will always arise. If we are not malleable, we will get left behind.

I love to create. I love to make magic. I love to create the unexpected.

Always be a little unexpected.

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

Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.

Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.

I can depend less and less on my own power and sense of direction...It is so strange to advance backwards and get where you are going in a totally unexpected way

The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.

To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which "life" is made.

Let us consider the polarity of love and hate.... Now, clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularityaccompanied by hate (ambivalence), and not only that in human relationships hate is frequently a forerunner of love, but also that in many circumstances hate changes into love and love into hate.

To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control...

Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

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.

its fun to do the unexpected.