Anita Dobson Quotes

History sometimes makes fun of us and our best intentions.

Life is unpredictable when you get non-standard behavior patterns.

One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change.

You never know what curve balls life is going to throw you and there's no way I can predict anything or make any assumptions about what the rest of my life is going to be like.

Life has all sorts of hills and valleys, and sometimes you don't end up doing what you had your heart set out on, but sometimes that's even better!

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.

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.

You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out.

People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant to be kind.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Some remedies are worse than the disease.

Life never works out the way you think it will. But you just have to deal with it.

Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces.

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.

I do try to let what is obviously unintended yet naturally good stay in.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.

Political reforms, without exception, have a down side.

Actions can have unintended adverse consequences.

Quite often good things have harmful consequences… men have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

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

The one thing you can't control is what comes after what you release.

In the world of 'Power,' no good deed goes unpunished. I don't really look at it as karma in the world of 'Power.' Whenever any character thinks they're on safe ground, they get the world pulled up from under them.