C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life."
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Jacques Derrida
Philosopher, Linguist
"There is a future which is predictable, programmed, scheduled, foreseeable. But there is a future, l'avenir (to come) which refers to someone who comes whose arrival is totally unexpected. For me, that is the real future. That which is totally unpredictable. The Other who comes without my being able to anticipate their arrival. So if there is a real future, beyond the other known future, it is l'avenir in that it is the coming of the Other when I am completely unable to foresee their arrival."
Mod Sun
Musician
"Let unexpected incidents roll off you like raindrops dancing down your bedroom window."
Paul Smith
Fashion Designer
"What I adore is mixing the unexpected, things you don't imagine should go together"
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"Always be a little unexpected."
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"A lot of my work has been about the unexpected—that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time. That kind of dilemma—that push and pull—is the underlying turbulence that I bring to each of the pieces that I make."
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"No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected."
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"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."
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"If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives."
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"Expect the unexpected."
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"Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'."
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"Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?"
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"Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is."
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"Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man"
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"Always make room for the unexpected in yourself."
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"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."
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"To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect."
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"The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula."
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"If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find it."
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"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."
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"When you live with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen"
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"Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected."
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"The unexpected connection is more powerful than one that is obvious."
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"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."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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