Hugh Blair Quotes

Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.

I don't like to make predictions, because my life's been pretty unpredictable so far.

Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered

How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance amid surprises, of collaborating with chance, of recognizing that there are some essential mysteries in the world and thereby a limit to calculation, to plan, to control. To calculate on the unforeseen is perhaps exactly the paradoxical operation that life most requires of us.

If you're going through difficult times today, hold steady. It will change soon. If you are experiencing smooth sailing and easy times now, brace yourself. It will change soon. The only thing you can be certain of is change.

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

I mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get through.

I have had a pretty hardcore crash course on living out of a suitcase. Some people take consistency in their lives for granted. When you have little to none, you discover it's kind of a nice thing.

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

Relative to most people I know, I am comfortable just about anywhere. I went to 20 schools before the 8th grade because my father couldn't hold a job. We moved every six months. I had to adjust.

This world's a bubble.

You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s.

Just understand that there's going to be some ups, there's going to be some downs.

You can't get too comfortable and relax, because your world can flip overnight.

You never know what kind of challenges are going to be thrown in your way or opportunities will arise.

Sometimes things don't happen in the way you want it to. But that's sport.

I was raised in an environment where chaos was the norm, so I was at my best in chaos.

You never know what life is going to throw at you, really, do you?

Anything can happen, and you have to be able to understand the reality of the world that we live in.

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.

The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure.

Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.