Patti Smith Quotes

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

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

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

I hate to keep repeating my mantra, but, boy, there are things happening that we did not expect to happen in any way, shape, manner, or form.

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

The older I get, the more I'm surprised with life. Things don't end up the way you think they will.

The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.

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

The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed

Look how often the unexpected happens - yet we still never expect it.

The things that you can't really foresee and that kind of surprise you, and a lot of times they are bad, but other times, they bring something different and new to the table.

We almost manage to forget that things happen that we don't anticipate.

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

Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.

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.

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

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

The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens.

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

We won't really know what will happen until it happens.

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

Most things in life come as a surprise.

I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.