Ram Dass Quotes

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

It's funny where life can take you.

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

The big things are the things that you don't expect.

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.

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

Life itself is so surprising, a predictable story is unsatisfying.

What's crazy about my life is that the biggest things that have happened just happen.

Life is crazy. It goes in directions that you could never guess.

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

Anything is possible in football and every match is different!

In a perfect dream, things would be set exactly the way you would want them. But I think it's more interesting that in real life, things aren't exactly the way you planned.

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

We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will take, what a character will do or say to surprise us, how the events in the world will impact our story.

Nothing I ever did I expected to do. It just kind of happened.

Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.

It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.

Sometimes in football you deserve to win but lose. Other times you deserve to lose or draw but you win. That is the game, and it's why I've always said you should never try to predict anything in football, especially in Europe.

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.

The only time I've tried to make plans, the cosmic sledgehammer has intervened and something else has happened. You just have to wait and see what comes your way, so that's what I do.

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