Maya Lin Quotes

No man can tell what the future may bring forth

Nothing is guaranteed.

Nothing is a guarantee at all.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

We won't really know what will happen until it happens.

History is totally unpredictable.

The future is unpredictable.

We don't know what's around the corner.

Everything that we start is something that we don't know what the outcome is going to be.

I have been around this long enough to know that there are no givens in this particular sport. There are too many things that can go wrong. There are too many things that can change.

Every game is a new game, and anything can happen.

You never know what's going to happen, not just after two months, but tomorrow, you never know what's going to happen.

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.'

The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

I think people have all faced decisions at times where you never know.

It's something you hope doesn't happen. When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

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

I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.

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.

A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.