Mark Twain Quotes

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

… experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur!

Everything works out in weird ways in the NFL.

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.

You can't prepare for something that you can't prepare for.

Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere.

I hate to keep repeating my mantra, but, boy, there are things happening that we did not expect to happen in any way, shape, manner, or form.

Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know.

Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

Life is nutty; anything can happen.

I like life to surprise me.

Breakthroughs are by definition unpredicted events. Therefore predicting breakthroughs is a particularly difficult business.

History is totally unpredictable.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.

History, as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.

The older I get, the more I'm surprised with life. Things don't end up the way you think they will.