Thucydides Quotes

No man can tell what the future may bring forth

… minor incidents—the kind you can never really foresee—combine to lower the general level of performance, so that one always falls short of the intended goal.

You're not always going to have a perfect day. You're not always going to have the day that you envision.

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

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

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.

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.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

History is totally unpredictable.

Who likes surprises? Nobody I know likes surprises. But facts change on the ground.

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

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

You can't prepare for something that you can't prepare for.

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.

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

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.

I came on to the film with a very happy-go-lucky attitude which I think my character, Charlie, did when she went into the house. I expected it to be good, and then slowly things started to change for us all.

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.

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.