Quotes About Unforeseen

In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another.

And as Lindbergh's election couldn't have made clearer to me, the unfolding of the unforeseen was everything. Turned wrong way round, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied as History, harmless history, where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevitable. The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.

The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.

Wierz?, ?e du?e zmiany w ?yciu przychodz? niezauwa?one; nie spodziewamy si? ich nawet na chwil? przed.

None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one's never thought of does.

Didn't see you coming, Kylie.

It's hard, really, really hard, in fact damn near impossible, to exercise power without it having some unexpected consequences. Doesn't matter what kind of power it is—magic, muscle, political office, electricity, moral authority. Use any of it, and you're going to find out that as a result, things happen that you didn't expect.

My life should be a movie...everyday something crazy happens.

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

The smile's refusal to recognize, let alone to sanction in himself, the savage obstinacy that seven decades of surviving requires of a man. As though anyone over ten believes you can subjugate with a smile, even one that kind and warm, all the things that are out to get you, with a smile hold it all together when the strong arm of the unforeseen comes crashing down on your head.

With a certain frustration I knew I spoke too soon, too urgently. I wanted to get out of the way the things I knew to say, wanted to say, the things I'd been thinking, all in the hope of moving into the unforeseen.

People surprise you sometimes.

no matter how much a man may try to do what is right, the outcome may not be one that he either foresees or desires. And that's grounds for regret—sometimes verra great regret," he added more softly, "but not for everlasting guilt. For it is there we must throw ourselves on God's mercy and hope to receive it.

You never know what emotions will emerge. They can come on suddenly, when you least expect them.

Suddenly, I'm like this political Ann Landers, which is a role I'd never envisioned for myself.

It starts raining main battle tanks.

You're trustworthy because you were never supposed to be here. You're a wild card, Stone, and possibly a very lucky accident.

The cart jerked, the wheels catching on something. Jodi pitched forward, felt the cart leave the sidewalk, tilt, tip. Momentum shot her from the downed cart. Her plan was to somersault forward, plant her feet, stand up. Ta-da. Unhurt. Unfazed. Except it didn't turn out that way.

That maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

I do know that there are some things, though, that occur without a direct line of antecedents.

There are a lot of places, I reply, that I thought I'd never go.

I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

Sometimes, things just fall into your lap. You look back and try to figure out how it all happened and you never know.