Meryl Streep Quotes

I had never made any plans beyond basketball.

You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

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.

Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or happily on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

In my mind, declaring that an unfamiliar task will yield low-hanging fruit is almost always an admission that you have little insight about what you're setting out to do.

People's lives often don't turn out as they expect.

Life is not what you expect: it is made up of the most unexpected twists and turns.

This business can be so fickle, and a lot of times, hard work isn't enough.

I don't look too far ahead, to be honest.

We live as if we know how everything will turn out. I certainly lived that way. But we don't know anything. Really, we don't.

Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?

We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!

I really don't know what happens next -- one so seldom does.

Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.

I have no idea of the future -- never, ever. That's what I like about fashion. It's paradise now.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.

Because maybe, the best of times were yet to come. You never knew.

The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.

Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

The devil fools with the best laid plans.

What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.

And what would they be scared of? There's nothing to fear in a perfect world, is there?

I don't make plans, because life is short and unpredictable - much like the weather!