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Quotes About Unforeseen

I shall start at the beginning. Though of course, the beginning is never where you think it is.
~ Diane Setterfield
Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way.
~ Donna Tartt
Can't good come around sometimes through some strange back doors?
~ Donna Tartt
We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly-as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth-the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives.
~ John Irving
The chain of events, the links in our lives—what leads us where we're going, the courses we follow to our ends, what we don't see coming, and what we do—all this can be mysterious, or simply unseen, or even obvious.
~ John Irving
Ni siquiera una sorpresa
~ John Irving
For just as no politics can be pure, so no "grand strategy" will remain unaffected by the unforeseen.
~ John Lewis Gaddis
Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
~ John Maynard Keynes
The marvelous thing about lack of planning is that failure comes as a complete and utter surprise.
~ Peter Green
But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.
~ T. S. Eliot
Sometimes the pain and tears are found in the last place you'd look...and never in the place you'd expect.
~ Unknown
Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.
~ Marjorie M. Liu
Didn't that just figure? One of the most
~ Unknown
I wasn't counting on this fight." "We rarely count on the ones we're forced to face.
~ Mary Burton
You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.
~ Mary Downing Hahn
They disrupted the performance
~ Unknown
Any serious reading of the Bible means personal involvement in it, not symbol mental agreement with abstract propositions. And involvement is dangerous, because it leaves one open to unforeseen conclusions.
~ Megan McKenna
Volgens mij zijn we een van de variabelen waarmee ze geen rekening hebben gehouden.' 'Variabel en niet in de hand te houden.' - Sophie en Josh, over Isis en Osiris
~ Michael Scott
What was that expression? It's when you're not looking for something that you find it. well she wasn't about to put that on the love match letterhead, even if it was true, she had a business to run after all.
~ Michele Gorman
We didn't call it World War I. How could we imagine there'd be a second?
~ Monica Wood
Life is full of uncertainties, perhaps one day some unforeseen circumstance would bring her into his life once more
~ Murasaki Shikibu
Where did you come from? I wasn't looking for you.
~ Nalini Singh
It's a story about the stuff that happens just exactly when you weren't expecting it; just on that night you thought nothing was going to happen, everything happens.
~ Naomi Alderman
Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose...
~ Neil Postman