Lynn Johnston Quotes

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

The world is changing so quickly, it's hard to get anything right for long.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

I always try to plan things out, but they never work out the way I expect.

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

These are the instructions you are getting today. It is only fair to tell you, however, that they may be changed tomorrow. And ten days later they may be changed back to the instructions you are getting now.

One must not expect anything in these times, but be ready for everything.

It's very easy to think that the way things are is the way things will stay, and life just isn't like that.

Every time I try to plan something or assume that something's going to happen, it never works out like that.

If you can, anticipate that life is going to be full of detours.

You're not always going to have a perfect day. You're not always going to have the day that you envision.

Everybody in the world knows that plans tend to change.

Things always change in football, and you can never predict anything.

I believe things when it comes out 'cause I know how it is - things change all the time.

It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be turned on its head. Everything someone assures me to be true might not be. Every pillar of belief the world rests on may or may not be about to explode. Most things don't stay the way they are very long. Knowing this, however, has not made me cynical. Cynical means believing that good isn't possible; and I know for a fact that good is. I simply take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.

A good sailor knows everything is always changing.

How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

My life is based on change. What I say is OK for the next ten minutes, then I change my mind.

Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.

Just because you have a good hand today doesn't mean it's good tomorrow. And some of the things we're doing may become very disadvantageous at some point.

Change is tough, people don't like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.

When you plan something, it never works.

Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.

The one thing we know about the future is that it will not be like today. I don't think that people should be too anxious about not knowing what they are going to do in the future, because we really can't know.