Quotes About Unforeseen

He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:

I like to do an interview when the other person isn't expecting it. I find it's more spontaneous.

Never in a million years did I think the sport of poker would blow up the way it did.

I can't believe I've met the royal family. It's, like, one of those things you never expect to do in your life.

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

We had no idea that things like Facebook and Twitter, and all these other concepts, would ever happen.

We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.

But she knew that love was messy, just like life. 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.

I go out to dinner, I wind up I with a homework assignment.

I haven't always found that it is our intentions, the decisions we make, that shape and guide our lives. The opposite, just as often, it seems to me. Impulse creates our stories, or chance, the entirely unforeseen. And what we remember of our own past can be unpredictable. I didn't learn this at school in Avegna, but I think Guarino would have agreed.

how many decisions did you make that at the time seemed inconsequential but down the track had enormous influence on either you or others?

Hell really has frozen over.

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

Obvious is not my forte. I take a left turn right when everybody thinks I'm going to go straight.

He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.

All I can say is that he never done nothin like this before.

He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his own doing.

I began to trust the world again, not to give me what I wanted, for I saw that it could not be trusted to do that, but to give unforeseen goods and pleasures that I had not thought to want.

The problem with unintended consequences isn't with the consequences, it's with the unintended. Just because you didn't' intend for something to happen doesn't mean you didn't want it to.

Hello, Miss Mackay. It's been a while, hasn't it? But then, a man never knows quite when he'll run into you, eh, Kiernan?

La definición exacta de "emergencia" implica que es inesperada y, por lo tanto, que no ocurre del modo que uno espera».

Is it not at least occasionally the case that we set out on a clear and simple mission and return with something undreamed of? Whether or not we accomplish our original intention becomes unimportant.

Even the best plans can change if there's an accident.

Sometimes the things you've lost can be found in unexpected places.