Definition of Unexpected

Unexpected

Not expected; coming without warning; sudden.

Related Definitions:

Coming, Expected, Not, Sudden, Warning, Without

Unexpected Quotations

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Oscar Wilde

I have learned, that 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.
Henry David Thoreau

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.
Julius Caesar

Which death is preferably to every other? "The unexpected".
Julius Caesar

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Paulo Coelho

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
John Locke

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Herbert Spencer

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
Heraclitus

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
Leon Trotsky

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Francis Bacon

I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.
Leonardo DiCaprio

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
George Soros

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
Robert Baden-Powell

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
W. H. Auden

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
James Thurber

All creative people want to do the unexpected.
Hedy Lamarr

I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.
Robert Mapplethorpe

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
Lascelles Abercrombie

I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected.
Jacqueline Bisset

My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.
Linda McCartney

On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army's point of view.
Hideki Tojo

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary.
Robert Rauschenberg

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
Jane Fonda

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.
Robert Morgan

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.
Leo Rosten

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.
Tom Robbins

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
Carl Sandburg

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.
Diane Ackerman

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Unexpected Translations

unexpected in German is unerwartet, unvorhergesehen, unverhofft
unexpected in Italian is inatteso
unexpected in Latin is repens, subitus, insperatus
unexpected in Spanish is imprevisto, inesperado

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