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“Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.”
Samuel Johnson
“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place”
C.S. Lewis
“The unexpected always happens”
Proverb
“A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes”
Mark Twain
“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”
Oscar Wilde
“There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes”
Richard Buckminster Fuller
“Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.”
Carl Sandburg
“Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.”
D.H. Lawrence
“I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.”
Robert Mapplethorpe
“Truly unexpected tidings make both ears tingle.”
St. Basil