Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us?

Jamais Cascio

I do know about stories where hackers that left Russia or Ukraine for Europe or the United States were unexpectedly arrested.

Alexandra Elbakyan

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

Andrew Johnson

Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.

Anna Freud

After we shot the first 'Twilight,' we organized our own wrap party. We really didn't know what this was going to be. Something like that can come at you unexpectedly, and you just have to try your best to deal with it.

Anna Kendrick

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

Arthur Erickson

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

Arthur Erickson

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

I inherited the company from my father after he died very unexpectedly from a heart attack in 1966. He was just 51 years old, and I was 21.

Azim Premji

There's challenges in life that present themselves unexpectedly, and if you rise to them, then those challenges will toughen you up.

Bernard Sumner

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

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

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

I've had a 'Zelig'-like career. I pop up unexpectedly. I'm always kind of around.

Dennis Christopher

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

Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.

Frank Dane

Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.

Georg Brandes

Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us?

Jamais Cascio

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

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

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

Jodi Rell