Aaron Sorkin Quotes

My life was a sort of series of random disasters.

Bad things happen, and you can only be so prepared.

If it was up to us every single day, then we would all have a perfect life, but stuff happens, but it's an imperfect world.

I think it's important for people to know that bad things do happen to good people and that life can throw a serious curveball at even the most cautious and "prepared" people out there.

I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and a cork-shaped bruise in my cleavage.

I don't expect the sun to be always shining, or even want that to happen.

Life is full of challenges and surprises.

I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s.

Real life happens. Sometimes it's messy. Sometimes it doesn't work.

Everything cannot go right all the time.

Every once in awhile, we all get a bad hand dealt to us.

Some people think I have a death wish. I don't have one. I just make mistakes. Bad things happen to good people.

Bad things can happen even to the best players.

You cannot always have good times in your life.

There are times when things are not going according to plan, and of course, you never want those times.

Every time something is going good, going great, there's always something that happens to remind you of reality.

Unfortunately, sometimes the unexpected can be something that you wish you never encountered.

The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.

You have to hold on to what you find because life has a way of throwing you curve balls that you never expect.

People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb calls 'Black Swans' - are inevitable. Some are likely to be desperately unpleasant too

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just the way things are meant to be.

To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.

Cumulative errors depend largely on the big surprises, the big opportunities. Not only do economic, financial, and political predictors miss them, but they are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish.

You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in a car accident. My brother committed suicide. Has my life been a life for anyone to envy?