Rudi Dornbusch Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Short cuts make long delays.

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

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.

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

The march of events rules and overrules human action.

We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow.

In the legislature promptitude of decision is oftener an evil than a benefit.

There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

No man can tell what the future may bring forth

Europe has a lot of problems when there are sudden decisions to take.

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

Much of what we're going to try will not work, and much of what does work will do so for unanticipated reasons.

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

You never know what's going to happen in the future.

Life is a roller-coaster, so you never know what's gonna happen.