Bernard Cornwell Quotes

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

Every day and every scene, it's never the scene that you expect.

Life is all about the unexpected.

World is suddener than we fancy it.

I did not know what my future was going to hold.

Life is full of surprises.

You never know what could be interesting tomorrow.

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.

When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

I'm kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what's around the corner.

Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.

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

I've learned from experience you just never know what happens in life.

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

I think we get stuck in routines so easily that when an absurd moment in life seems to be there for no reason, it wakes you up out of your everyday pattern. You pull back and look at life a little bit wider because of that one weird thing you weren't expecting.

Most things in life come as a surprise.

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

Who likes surprises? Nobody I know likes surprises. But facts change on the ground.

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

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

The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.

Life has many twists and turns.

We expect surprises. There has to be surprises.