Ally Carter Quotes

Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.

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

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

Breakthroughs are by definition unpredicted events. Therefore predicting breakthroughs is a particularly difficult business.

My life is a bit unpredictable.

In real life things don’t go so smoothly. At certain points in our lives, when we really need a clear-cut solution, the person who knocks at our door is, more likely than not, a messenger bearing bad news.

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.

Life is an unending stream of extenuating circumstances.

Nothing ever goes as planned in China.

You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

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

Everything cannot go right all the time.

In true Slipknot fashion, nothing we plan works out the way we want it.

And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

Life has a way of disregarding even your best intentions.

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

You just never know what's around the next corner in life or business or anything.

It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.

I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.

Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.

We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.