Michelle Ryan Quotes

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.

Most things in life come as a surprise.

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

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

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

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

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

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.

You just can't get surprised when you get surprised, because weird stuff just comes over the transom all the time, and it's not necessarily anything that you've planned for or anticipated.

Life is full of surprises, some good, some not so good.

The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.

We're never ready for the things that happen. When the big stuff happens, we're always looking in the other direction.

The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

Sometimes there's no warning. Nothing at all.

My whole life has largely been one of surprises.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

I think that no relationship goes completely according to plan or the way you wished it had.

Life is full of surprises.

There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.

Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.

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

At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.