David McCullough Quotes

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

We can't predict the future.

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

The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.

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

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

History is totally unpredictable.

History proceeds in zig zags through crooked paths.

No man can tell what the future may bring forth

The future is inherently uncertain.

The beauty of my journey is that it's always been pretty unpredictable, so stay tuned.

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

Honestly, who knows 100 per cent what they will do next year?

What interests me is the unforeseeable.

The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.

I have to live for the day, and not worry about or try to know what tomorrow brings.... if I've learned one thing from all that'shappened to me, it's that if you would know what tomorrow brings, you may not want to live it.

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

This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.

I really don't know what happens next -- one so seldom does.

The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.

I don't know what I'm going to be doing in two years or even in two weeks. I have to live for today.

Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.

I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.

The future is like smoke from a burning forest, waiting for the wind of specific events and personal courage to blow the sparks and embers of reality this way or that.

The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.