Quotes About Unforeseen

Complications lead to multiplicative chains of unanticipated effects.

while the bulk of their risks came from outside their models.

the long-term harm is largely unaccounted for.

Had it been expected, it would not have caused the damage it did

It qualified as a Black Swan, but I did not know the expression then.

But fate is a freak when it comes to messing with your future in ways you don't see coming.

Os maiores riscos nunca são aqueles que você pode ver e mensurar, mas aqueles que você não pode ver e, portanto, jamais poderá mensurar. Aqueles que parecem tão distantes, fora das fronteiras da probabilidade normal, que você não consegue nem imaginar que possam acontecer na sua vida – mesmo que, é claro, aconteçam, com mais frequência do que você se dá conta.

Modelling was never in my plan. Never.

The worst thing a general can ever say is, Hell, I never expected that.

Many of our technology-related problems arise because of the unforeseen consequences when apparently benign technologies are employed on a massive scale.

You never know what to expect on encountering royalty. I've seen 'em stark naked except for wings of peacock feathers (Empress of China), giggling drunk in the embrace of a wrestler (Maharani of the Punjab), voluptuously wrapped in wet silk (Queen of Madagascar), wafting to and fro on a swing (Rani of Jhansi), and tramping along looking like an out-of-work charwoman (our own gracious monarch).

trouble you're expecting never happens; it's always something that sneaks up the other way.

You took me unawares, my lord. I was not told of your coming." - "And I seem to have prevented yours.

No more than he knew that the Beggar King would die young, or that Khal Drogo would follow him into the grave. Very little of what the fat man has anticipated has come to pass.

You weren't s'posed to be here,

Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.

So far 2020 is like looking both ways before crossing the street and then getting hit by an airplane.

?udnovato je, ali istinito, da te velike nesre?e, kao mine sa duga?kim fitiljem, eksplodiraju tek mnogo docnije, ?esto kad ih ve? niko više ne o?ekuje.

Twitter wasn't planned. It just happened.

History is littered with the wars everybody knew could never happen.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

To be a successful investor requires being a good risk manager. Managing risk means having a plan to cover the downside. That's what insurance is all about—damage control to prevent the unforeseen from smashing your nest egg.

Of course the COVID situation is ghastly and undesirable, but I cannot ignore the fact that this gave me a chance to spend what I think is the maximum time in my life with my husband and children.

It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered.