unexpected quotes

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

When God sneezed, I didn’t know what to say.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

The thing that doesn’t fit is the thing that’s the most interesting: the part that doesn’t go according to what you expected.

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

There’s poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don’t like doing what people expect me to do.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

It was something I never expected to – I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.