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Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal - there's the trick! — Mikhail Bulgakov

We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it? — Gautama Buddha

One rotation that I unexpectedly enjoyed was surgery. I knew I was too clumsy to become a surgeon and did not have the traditional gung-ho mentality. — Barron H. Lerner

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. — Alberto Manguel

Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled ... or that day will come on you unexpectedly. Luke 21:34 — Beth Moore

I'm returning to England because the reason I stayed away no longer exists, and a reason to return has unexpectedly presented itself. — Sylvia Day

That's what Alice liked about the desert, its constant relentless conflict with itself. The desert was unexpectedly beautiful and horrible at once. — Joy Williams

machine. Unexpectedly, I'd invented a time — Alan Moore

Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep. — H.M. Tomlinson

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

Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it. — Raymond Carver

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. — Steven Levy

As I left my cab in the traffic jam, the driver made it clear he didn't like it that I was ending our relationship so unexpectedly — Steve Toltz

If inspiration is allowed to unexpectedly enter you, it is also allowed to unexpectedly exit you. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I am constantly looking to push boundaries with materials, bring in new weights, and work in fabrics unexpectedly. — Roksanda Ilincic

If I ever went to Paris,' said Francis, unexpectedly pensive, 'I think I would be very happy ... — Jack Kerouac

And then it happens all at once and unexpectedly. That is how things happen, I suppose. You pack your bags and find yourself walking yourself home. — Shannon L. Alder

One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully. — Alain De Botton

Sometimes you just have those days where everything goes wrong. But sometimes, and totally unexpectedly, something can go right. — Leila Sales

Death, however clearly foretold, still came unexpectedly. — Daniel Abraham

Moments of pure happiness come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them. — Jessica Lange

When you think all is lost, the things you need most return unexpectedly. — Susannah Cahalan

As love is the battlefield, life is unexpectedly filled. — Santosh Kalwar

His lips (mmmmm). His mouth is warm and he tasted like coffee and mints. Bit of an angry shit when you kiss him unexpectedly (ha!). — C.J. Roberts

I wish all this never had to change, says Rafiq, unexpectedly.
I'm pleased he's content and sad that a kid so young knows that nothing lasts. — David Mitchell

Isn't it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful? — Mary Oliver

Are you ... a time traveler? Alien?" She shot him a crooked smile. "Unexpectedly hitching a ride in a blue police call box? — Elizabeth Hunter

Grover Unexpectedly Loses His Trousers — Rick Riordan

The hour of happiness which comes unexpectedly is the happiest. — Horace

Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets. — Takeshi Kitano

I'd say that the middle stanza is closer: that's the place where the poem ranges unexpectedly into a different realm. — Jane Hirshfield

Breathing in her clean, sweet scent was like unexpectedly finding almond cookies. So fucking sweet. — Cherise Sinclair

The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise. — Jill Soloway

I've had a 'Zelig'-like career. I pop up unexpectedly. I'm always kind of around. — Dennis Christopher

Why didn't anyone ever drop by unexpectedly when she was dressed to kill? — Susan Andersen

Impending death had a way of unexpectedly unearthing the past so that it came together with the present in an unholy coupling. — Abraham Verghese

If I die unexpectedly can everyone just do the right thing and pretend I was a way better person than I am? — Anna Kendrick

One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life. — Alfred Hitchcock

One morsel of God's provision, especially when it comes in unexpectedly, and upon prayer, when wants are most, will be more sweet — John Flavel

The thought weaves into her unexpectedly, as so many thoughts do, time again. How do you make the remembering stop? — Mary E. Pearson

But happy moments came rarely and unexpectedly in the Baudelaires' lives, and the three siblings had learned to accept them. — Lemony Snicket

My tears had unexpectedly become real. — S.L. Wallace

The nanny seemed to be extinct until 1975, when, like the coelacanth, she suddenly and unexpectedly reappeared in the shape of Margaret Thatcher. — Simon Hoggart

War may break out unexpectedly. Wars are not declared, nowadays. They simply start. — J. Stalin

Does such a place exist where people can't unexpectedly be helped or hurt? — Chris Colfer

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place. — C.S. Lewis

Unexpectedly, a fierce sense of protectiveness comes over me. Except I fight it back because I can hardly look after myself these days. — Melina Marchetta

Memory gallops, then checks up and veers unexpectedly; to memory, the order of occurrence is arbitary — Anthony Doerr

It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun. — Robin Black

A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet. — Francois Mauriac

The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark. — Virginia Woolf

stay his arm. "Dalton, don't! It's bad luck to kill a raven!" Her intervention, and the bird unexpectedly ducking, caused him to miss an easy kill. — Terry Goodkind

Work diligently. Work hard. Focus. Perform as if you are at the Olympics. One day, unexpectedly, it will start paying off. — Joan Marques

Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust. — Kazuo Ishiguro

When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value . — Sun Bin

He called it a mastodon (which means, a touch unexpectedly, "nipple-teeth"). — Bill Bryson

No war really comes unexpectedly. The drums are beating long before a single shot is fired. — Margaret Case Harriman

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly. — Arthur Erickson

The beauty of traveling solo is that you wonder unexpectedly, but almost certainly into the direction you were meant to go. — Shannon Ables

When great happiness unexpectedly swoops down on people, they suddenly turn into cowards. — Novala Takemoto

Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house. — Georg Brandes

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

People say that red is the color of fate, right? Now you may think it's only troublesome, but it might connect you with something unexpectedly good. — Sorata Akizuki

Man is mortal and, as has rightly been said, unexpectedly mortal. — Mikhail Bulgakov

Certain actions take place outside the normal course of things so unexpectedly that they seem to paralyse ordinary capacity for feeling surprise; — Anthony Powell

That's the ideal meeting ... once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again. — Helen Oyeyemi

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly. — Arthur Erickson

I am having a very difficult time. Things happen unexpectedly. — Koki Hirota

I was grateful to Ben the way you are grateful to someone who is unexpectedly kind. — Cheryl Drake Harris

I am always looking for ideas, whether it is in art on the street or in my world travels. It comes to me randomly and unexpectedly. — Colleen Atwood

What is humor?' one of their professors had posed, and he had answered, 'nondangerous, unexpectedly inappropriate juxtaposition. — Sena Jeter Naslund

There's an unexpectedly high share of workers still in agriculture, .. That's like a fault line. — Edward Taylor

Sabine Baring-Gould wrote the hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and, more unexpectedly, the first novel to feature a werewolf. — Bill Bryson

Unexpectedly, I'm here now, so I need to let all the U.S. marketers know that Asians are not different. We are all the same. — Psy

Unexpectedly, it was from Adrian. How r u feeling after last night? Been worried about u. — Richelle Mead

Er-my-nee, Ron croaked unexpectedly from between them. — J.K. Rowling

Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does. — Frank Dane

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer. — Jodi Rell

If you want to do something and you have a goal, do it, don't wait, because your channel might change sometime soon - and quite unexpectedly. — Sean Swarner

This program is subject to change
often unexpectedly, sometimes in the batting of an eye. It's the best argument I know against suicide. — Tom Robbins

I really enjoy Martin Sheen - he is very unexpectedly funny, very quick. — Noureen DeWulf

What is your greatest regret?
Not staying in better touch with people who truly mattered to me before they died unexpectedly. — Matt Damon

Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator. — Helen Gurley Brown

I feel incompetent to perform duties ... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me. — Andrew Johnson

And that's why I love you," she said, smiling. "Because occasionally, and quite unexpectedly, you sound like a sonnet. — Scott Wilbanks

His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning. — P.G. Wodehouse

Revenge is a dish best served unexpectedly and from a distance - like a thrown trifle. — Frances Hardinge