Kate O'Brien Quotes

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

Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.

The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that's the most interesting: the part that doesn't go according to what you expected.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.

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

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

The enduring appeal of mystery stories for all of us is that the world is a pretty confusing place. There's a lot of really unanswered things, and perhaps the scariest notion would be that there might not always be answers out there for us.

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

Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.

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

You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out.

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.

The more the technocrats programme it down to the smallest detail, the more the powerful manipulate it, football continues to be the art of the unforeseeable. When you least expect it, the impossible occurs: the dwarf teaches the giant a lesson, and a scraggy, bow-legged black man makes an athlete sculpted in Greece look ridiculous.

You never know what's going to happen sometimes, or what you think's going to happen never happens, or when you least expect it, the Santana record comes along and just blows up.

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

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

I mean, you know, sometimes, yeah, you wish for something and you don't get quite what you wish for. But you get something bigger and better.

I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

I was always confident that I knew. I never expected this.