Quotes About Unforeseen

Knowledge has a trick of paying off in unexpected ways.

History is a record of effects the vast majority of which nobody intended to produce.

I'm getting to the point where I'm never surprised when you pop up. - Alistair Oh

If you constantly compare this moment with some perfection that you imagined, you are fated to be forever disappointed. Adventure is the unforeseen, not the expected." Blithe

Wisdom is found in the least expected places.

Never forget, the unimaginable can happen.

The ending is always a surprise.

The things that are important in life creep up on one unawared, one doesn't expect them, one hasn't given them shape in one's mind. One recognizes them, when they've appeared, that's all.

I've always been interested in the unintended side effects of technology. For instance, when the car was invented, who would have thought dogs would like sticking their heads out the window to enjoy the scentscape generated by speed and wind?

Lines from an old film came back to him unbidden: That I should want you at all suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability. You're an improbable person, and so am I.

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

It is the kind of thing that happens to you when you are stupid," said Esa. "Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them.

but the unlikely happened more often than one would be disposed to believe.

Extraordinary fellow. Took me by the neck when I wasn't expecting it, and wrung it like a chicken." She moved her neck gingerly.

Ask anybody who has ever remodeled their house. There's always problems. They open up walls, they find this, they find that. There is always something. I'm in a business where you have to control those variables.

I didn't even apply. There was no warning.

Ridiculous stuff happens when I travel.

The ronin were those masterless men who roamed around, and yet they found themselves getting involved in circumstances they hadn't expected.

I often do things that surprise me, not to mention others.

Surprises can be compelling.

Dickens is always full of surprises.

How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance amid surprises, of collaborating with chance, of recognizing that there are some essential mysteries in the world and thereby a limit to calculation, to plan, to control.

History is usually a random, messy affair'

But, alas, nobody anticipated the United States Department of Homeland Security.