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Letter "U" » unexpected
«If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Dreams,
Happiness,
Life,
Success
| Keywords:
Advances, by the hour, common, commoner, confidently, direction, dreams, endeavored, endeavors, hours, imagined, in common, meet, To Live, unexpected
«Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.»
Author: Jim Bishop
(Writer)
| About:
Death and dying,
Grief
| Keywords:
casual, fade, finite, unexpected
«I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.»
«A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.»
Author: Sir Robert Baden-Powell
(Army Officer)
| About:
Knowledge,
Scouting
| Keywords:
scout, scouting, Scouts, surprise, unexpected
«Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
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«A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable»
Author: Billy Graham
| About:
Sense of humor
| Keywords:
keen, keenest, outlast, outlasted, outlasting, outlasts, overlook, sense of humor, tolerated, unbearable, unbecoming, unconventional, unexpected, unpleasant
«If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
happens, history, incapable, learning, repeats, unexpected
«If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
Advances, confidently, direction, endeavors, hours, imagined, in common, unexpected
«A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
at last, at long last, expected, form, last, long, takes, unexpected
«If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius where reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
entering, foreseen, meditated, secretly, undertaking, unexpected
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