Plautus Quotes

You can't prepare for something that you can't prepare for.

Sometimes in life, random things can blind-side you.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

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

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

Most things in life come as a surprise.

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

What's crazy about my life is that the biggest things that have happened just happen.

We don't appreciate luck in life when things are going well. No matter how smart I am and how I prepare, there are things that catch you off guard.

Life is so unpredictable.

You just can't get surprised when you get surprised, because weird stuff just comes over the transom all the time, and it's not necessarily anything that you've planned for or anticipated.

A lot of weird things happen in life that are not always pertaining to your main objective.

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

Sometimes there's no warning. Nothing at all.

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

Life is full of surprises.

There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.

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

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

You never know what's going to happen and when it's going to happen.

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

It's something you hope doesn't happen. When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.

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

Nothing ever goes as planned in China.