Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

The comedy seeds were planted before the Marine seeds. The thought of comedy never happening was scary. When you have a plan, you never know what will happen.

You can never assume that something is going to do well.

Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.

What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

All of the thinking and planning that you do to get there, and then, in one minute, in one second, it just doesn't matter. It goes out the window. You either got it or you didn't. There is something kind of refreshing about that.

We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion the blow. But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes. But one thing is certain when it finally reveals itself. The future is never the way we imagined it.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

We certainly will prepare consciously and professionally, but still you cannot predict the future.

You never know what can happen. I feel like I have a pretty good chance, but you never know.

You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.

I believe anything can happen.

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

Something will turn up.

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope

One event makes another: what we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.

Some people plan their life out, and it occurs. Others have things they're thinking about, and things don't go that way.

Even with most finite planning, you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you.

You never know what the future might hold.

You never know what's going to happen in the draft. You just wait until your name gets called and then things happen.

As long as you put yourself out there for things to happen that you want, something's going to happen, but it's never exactly what you imagine, maybe.