Plautus Quotes

What you think is going to be a big break or opportunity can sometimes turn into the opposite, and vice versa.

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

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

You never know what the future brings.

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

Success and failure are equally surprising.

You never know what the future might hold.

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

You never know what you're going to get as a receiver.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

I'm always taken aback by things that are successful that I think are just crap, and then I'm completely surprised when things I do end up being successful because you walk into things and you never know... It's just really remarkable.

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'll be honest with you: not a chance in this world. But you know, stranger things have happened.

I believe anything can happen.

Things always look better when you haven't seen them.

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not.

I believed, up to last week, that Adam was somehow coming back. But I wouldn't trade that optimism for anything, because the other option is no fun.

You can't bank on the outcome.

There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.

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.

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.