#expected

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

#believe #convulsive #i #i do #idea

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#better #cannot #dictionaries #expected #go

I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me. ↗

— Andrew Johnson

#duties #feel #i #i feel #incompetent

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#found #i #just #kind #less

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#expected #give #great #gymnastics #i

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#against #author #birds #chickens #dried

'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#christmas #expected #iraq #never #present

I'm expected to do what's right; I want to leave a legacy of positivity behind. ↗

— Angie Stone

#expected #i #leave #legacy #right

A brick could be used as a dream stimulator. Just tap it gently against your forehead. And if the mechanism gets stuck, just slam it down on your skull to jar everything loose.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

A brick could be used to assuage your sense that life isn't real. Hold it in your hands and say, This is not a dream.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny