Paula Patton Quotes

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

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

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

Who likes surprises? Nobody I know likes surprises. But facts change on the ground.

Life is not what you expect: it is made up of the most unexpected twists and turns.

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

No man can tell what the future may bring forth

History, as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.

People's lives often don't turn out as they expect.

We expect surprises. There has to be surprises.

You just never know what's around the next corner in life or business or anything.

Life doesn't often turn out the way we think it will, does it?

We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.

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.

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

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.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.

Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.