Juan Gris Quotes

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

We usually get what we anticipate.

You are lost the moment you know what the result will be.

You can't bank on the outcome.

We will never have 100 percent certainty except in hindsight.

One event makes another: what we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage

I can guarantee 100% effort, but I cannot guarantee 100% results.

I knew I was gonna be the number one pick, but I didn't know.

I had no idea if 'No Roots' was going to work or not.

People seem to want to know stuff that's going to happen before it happens sometimes instead of just enjoying it and following the ride and just seeing where it takes you.

Foreknowledge is a wonderful thing.

Well, we must wait for the future to show.

You can't always expect a certain result, but you can expect to do your best.

Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.

WANT shows up in conversation - EXPECTATION shows up in behavior.

What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.

to hope was to expect

Knowing the future is difficult, controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.

Sometimes Chris wished he could sneak a peek at the back of the book, so to speak, and see how it was all going to turn out, so that he wouldn't have to bother going through the motions.

The point is [...] that you never know whether you've lost until you've lost. Anything can happen.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?

If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.