Dan Simmons Quotes

History is totally unpredictable.

There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore.

Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

No man can tell what the future may bring forth

I don't like to make predictions, because my life's been pretty unpredictable so far.

It's very easy to think that the way things are is the way things will stay, and life just isn't like that.

Many events in our lives are the result of things beyond our control. While it is comforting to think, 'I'm in charge,' in truth, most changes effected by individuals are very limited in scope.

Reality is a sliding door.

Life is anything but predictable.

We don't know the probabilities of future events. Still, you have to take action, and so you do it on gut feeling. That's the world we live in.

Sometimes, you have to take a big risk.

Life is so unpredictable.