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Quotes About Unforeseen

Existe gentileza em muitos lugares inesperados.
~ Karin Slaughter
To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.
~ Emile M. Cioran
The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
~ Nikki Giovanni
Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar
~ Marshall McLuhan
A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters
~ Julio Cortazar
Who is the dark horse he has in his stable?
~ William Thackeray
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The truth is that people never realize their lives are about to change in unforeseen ways—that's just the nature of unforeseen ways.
~ Will Schwalbe
Although history may therefore seem like a series of inevitable events, the actual future is seldom foreseen.
~ David G. Myers
The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.
~ David Mamet
It's hard to hear that your good intentions are making things worse and tragic.
~ Morgan Spurlock
Not only can you not plan the impact you're going to have, you often won't recognize it when you're having it.
~ Dick Costolo
History is never surprising after it happens.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
We are in the the very midst of a revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.
~ John Adams
An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.
~ A. P. Herbert
The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help.
~ Napoleon Hill
From whatever angle he viewed their dawning intimacy, he could not see it as part of her scheme of life; and to be the unforeseen element in a career so accurately planned was stimulating even to a man who had renounced sentimental experiments.
~ Edith Wharton
Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.
~ Alex Flinn
Never was any such event [the French Revolution], stemming from factors so far back in the past, so inevitable yet so completely unforeseen.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Some people are like blisters----they show up after the work is done.
~ Alfred E. Newman
Every action we have is going to have repercussions in ways we could not anticipate.
~ Jay Asher
Seven daughters was never part of my plan.
~ Jonathan Franklin
You just can't get surprised when you get surprised, because weird stuff just comes over the transom all the time, and it's not necessarily anything that you've planned for or anticipated.
~ Charlie Baker
I don't think anybody planned for me to be an actor. I didn't. I didn't know this was what I was going to do.
~ Missy Peregrym