Quotes About Surprises

If you plan for the worst, all surprises are pleasant.

Whether or not what you do has the effect you want, it will have three at least you never expected, and one of those usually unpleasant.

If you plan for the worst, all surprises are pleasant." "I

Always plan for the worst, child; that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones.

the Law of Unintended Consequences, stronger than any written law. Whether or not what you do has the effect you want, it will have three at least you never expected, and one of those usually unpleasant.

Siempre debéis prever lo peor, hijas; de ese modo, todas las sorpresas que recibáis serán agradables.

I suppose we'll get used to being grownup in time. There won't be so many unexpected things about it by and by–though, after all, I fancy it's the unexpected things that give spice to life.

You can never tell about those Yankees!

Life was certainly very interesting.

I haven't planned, very much," July said honestly. "Seems like every time I make a plan something happens to change it.

Murphy's law is the only true dependable in my life most of the time.

Sounds like you've got it all planned out. Honey, I've got more plans than Wes has ugly shoes. And that's a lot. I laugh. It sure is, she says with a sigh.

I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would.

Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality.

Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.

I've been blessed with some lovely scripts and a character that people could truly identify with. It's one of those surprises in life that makes you think, 'God was smiling on me that particular day.

There is a beehive under every pot of honey on the island of Manhattan

Old age was a box of surprises and not the good kind.

The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding, even if, as Proust warns is, 'when we discover the true lives of other people, the real world beneath the world of appearance, we get as many surprises as on visiting a house of plain exterior which is full of hidden treasures, torture-chambers or skeletons.

The Jews had holidays that turned up out of the blue and the Catholics had children in much the same way.

What people want to read often seems incongruous. A pair of biker-types taking away Thoughts of the Dalai Lama. People without access to instruments requesting sheet music. Aspiring poets sharing their work and then borrowing horror stories.

Once upon a time I had my life planned out...

It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.

Most consumers are simultaneously neophilic, curious to discover new things, and deeply neophobic, afraid of anything that is too new. The best hit makers are gifted at creating moments of meaning by marrying new and old, anxiety and understanding. They are architects of familiar surprises.