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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.
Paul Auster
World
Own
Control
Our
Ruled
Ways
Unpredictable
Some
Feel
Forces
Existence
Unexpectedly
Want
Happen
Suddenly
Things
Things Happen
Chance
Coincidence
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
Life
Love
Gardening
Love Is
Law
Flower
Must
Plucked
Hour
Without
Blossoms
Duration
Unexpectedly
Where
Brief
Found
Enjoyed
I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
Andrew Johnson
Me
Thrown
Feel
Perform
Been
Unexpectedly
Duties
Which
Incompetent
Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.
Anna Freud
Beautiful
Sometimes
Most Beautiful
Something
Given
Most
Beautiful Thing
Most Beautiful Thing
Truly
Unearned
Precisely
Unexpectedly
Hence
Thing
Present
I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Work
Politics
You
Change
Sometimes
Political
Feelings
Think
Else
Come
Least
Overnight
Very
Expect
Unexpectedly
Anything
Anything Else
Apart
There's challenges in life that present themselves unexpectedly, and if you rise to them, then those challenges will toughen you up.
Bernard Sumner
Life
You
Challenges
Will
Those
Rise
Toughen
Up
Unexpectedly
Them
Themselves
Then
Present
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
Art
Me
World
Looking
Randomly
Ideas
Always
Am
Unexpectedly
Whether
Travels
Street
With so many delicious varieties and flavors ranging from subtle to bold, Keebler and Carr's crackers are an unexpectedly genius way to celebrate leftovers and serve up one-of-a-kind recipes.
Damaris Phillips
Celebrate
Genius
Recipes
Way
Delicious
Up
Leftovers
Crackers
Unexpectedly
Subtle
Flavors
Many
Bold
Serve
My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.
Donna Tartt
Time
Together
Long
Single
More
Long Period
Over
Come
Period
Conceptual
Unexpectedly
Different
Process
Different Elements
Spark
Really
Many
Novels
Elements
Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.
Georg Brandes
Birth
Something
More
House
Came
Child
Unexpectedly
Quite
Afterwards
I had found myself a new mission - and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly.
James Black
Myself
Needs
Ambition
Corporate
Dilemma
Once
Once More
Solved
More
Had
Recurring
Between
New
Mission
Scientific
Commercial
Personal
Unexpectedly
Found
The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.
Joan D. Vinge
Queen
Made
Own
Control
Changed
Minds
Characters
Futures
Beyond
Well
Forced
Ultimate
Hearts
Snow
Unexpectedly
Them
Choices
Things
Profoundly
Fates
The decision to divorce myself from the business side unexpectedly blew up in my face. The creative freedom I thought I was getting turned out to be anything but.
Joseph Abboud
Myself
Freedom
Business
Creative
Decision
Thought
Face
Side
Out
Divorce
Blew
Up
Unexpectedly
Getting
Anything
Turned
Business Side
Sometimes it takes you two or three seconds to get your head round a joke and laugh at it. With a snot-bubble laugh, it comes instinctively - almost in spite of yourself. It's caused by something silly - like when a little kid says something unexpectedly bizarre.
Julian Barratt
You
Yourself
Sometimes
Three
Joke
Seconds
Kid
Says
Laugh
Bizarre
Silly
Something
Spite
Head
Takes
Almost
Instinctively
Like
Caused
Get
Unexpectedly
Little
Little Kid
Your
Round
Two
A friend of mine passed away unexpectedly at the very end of making 'Ghosts', someone who had been as close to me as someone could get, someone who was far too young. But I couldn't really sing about it for a long time - not in the way I would have wanted to.
Mark Kozelek
Time
Me
Long
Long Time
Young
Too
Mine
Way
Ghosts
Would
About
Someone
Could
Had
Sing
Making
Passed
Been
Friend
End
Very
Close
Get
Unexpectedly
Wanted
Far
Really
Who
Away
Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly.
Moshe Sharett
History
Backlash
Must
Unavoidable
Most
Make
Unexpectedly
Which
Us
Certain
Momentous
Swiftly
Even
Chance
Presented
I really enjoy Martin Sheen - he is very unexpectedly funny, very quick.
Noureen DeWulf
Funny
Enjoy
Martin
He
Sheen
Quick
Very
Unexpectedly
Really
I thought the sports law sector would be boring, but it was unexpectedly interesting.
Park Ji-sung
Sports
Law
Thought
Sector
Would
Would-Be
Boring
Unexpectedly
Interesting
I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious.
Robert Adams
Thought
Glorious
Hated
About
Something
Taking
Pictures
Were
Unexpectedly
Things
Shooting at Coco Chanel's apartment was an unexpectedly absorbing experience. The essence of Chanel is firmly rooted there in all of her possessions, and I truly believe that her spirit and soul still inhabit the second floor.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
Soul
Experience
Believe
Possessions
Spirit
Absorb
Firmly
Still
Truly
Shooting
Unexpectedly
Essence
Apartment
Rooted
Inhabit
Floor
Her
Second
Chanel
Being a part of 'Mothoon' was unexpectedly character-building.
Sobhita Dhulipala
Part
Unexpectedly
Being
There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.
Steven Levy
History
Never
Computers
Period
Been
Unexpectedly
Short
The History Of
I had forgotten how thrilling a snow day is until my son started school, and as much as he loves it, he swoons at the idea of a free day arriving unexpectedly, laid out like a gift.
Susan Orlean
Day
Son
Gift
School
Free
Out
Thrilling
Had
He
Idea
Like
Until
How
Arriving
Snow
Unexpectedly
Forgotten
Laid
Loves
Much
Started
I love stories of love cropping up unexpectedly in life almost as a problem, as something you don't ask for. Something that messes everything up and makes you rethink everything.
Todd Haynes
Life
Love
You
Problem
Everything
Something
Rethink
Almost
Messes
Makes
Up
Unexpectedly
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Stories
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