Michelle Paver Quotes

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

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

We don't appreciate luck in life when things are going well. No matter how smart I am and how I prepare, there are things that catch you off guard.

If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.

Every day and every scene, it's never the scene that you expect.

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.

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

You don't realize what you're going to get, and you can't prepare yourself for it.

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

the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

It's been predictable, in the sense of 'expect the unexpected'.

But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

It's like a blind turn on a highway: You can't see what's coming, so you don't really know how to prepare.

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

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.

Sometimes in life, random things can blind-side you.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Most things in life come as a surprise.

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

I like life to surprise me.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

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

… experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur!

You never know what's really going to hit.