Terry Pratchett Quotes

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

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

We expect surprises. There has to be surprises.

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

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

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.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

History is totally unpredictable.

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

Destiny and history are untidy.

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

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.

It's been my experience that every time I think I know where it's at, it's usually somewhere else.

I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

History is a fickle lady.

History proceeds in zig zags through crooked paths.

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

No man can tell what the future may bring forth