Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old unusual quotes, unusual sayings, and unusual proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before!William James
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Becoming enlightened is not special, but it's unusual.Frederick Lenz
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It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.Paul Mccartney
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The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman-- it might be embarrassing to explain, but it would be very unusual to get them confused.Daniel Handler
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If people aren't laughing at you, you aren't saying anything very unusual. So let your voice be loud and strong, dare to try things that may fail.Joline Godfrey
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Time changes every man. Unusual circumstances change them in unusual ways.Bryant Gumbel
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The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.Julio Cortazar
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Very unusual in an insurgency to have absolutely no political agenda other than to return to power. Most insurgents have a political side to them.Jack Keane
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The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills.Eliezer Yudkowsky
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You surely know that in the course of a long marriage it is not unusual for a husband or a wife to develop a crush on someone else.Elizabeth Strout
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This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.Desmond Morris
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As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.Julius Caesar
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Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the Unknown. But there it sits, nevertheless, calmly licking its chops.H.L. Mencken
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Unpredictability too can become monotonous.Eric Hoffer
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Greet the unseen with a cheer.Robert Browning
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We must dare to think about 'unthinkable things,' because when things become 'unthinkable,' thinking stops and action becomes mindless.J.William Fulbright
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Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.Alfred North Whitehead
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The probability of learning something unusual from a newspaper is far greater than that of experiencing it.Robert Musil
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Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.Chuck Jones
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All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.Boyle Roche
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Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, / As brooks make rivers, rivers run into seas.John Dryden
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The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.K. Patricia Cross
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It is not unusual for a son to fill his father's shoes also his socks and shirts.Evan Esar
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When a man is lost in thought, it's probably because he's in unfamiliar territory.Evan Esar
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A careful driver is probably the one who is still unfamiliar with the gadgets on his new car.Evan Esar
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Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.Goethe
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All successful employers are stalking people who will do the unusual, people who think, people who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.Charles M. Schwab
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Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.Andrew Carnegie
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To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be though.Bathroom Readers' Institute
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The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.Paul Fix