Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

One must not expect anything in these times, but be ready for everything.

Golf gives and takes. So yeah, sometimes you make those putts, sometimes you just miss them. But that's golf.

I'm kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what's around the corner.

Something will turn up.

I never rule anything in or out; life can surprise you.

I wait for options, hoping that a space for a pass will appear at the last moment.

Never expect anything, but plan for everything.

The thrill of not knowing what's going to happen, trained me to be prepared for anything.

For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.

The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.

As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these: a) Anything can happen to anyone. and b) It is best to be prepared.

But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.

Best not to anticipate too much ... it jiggles the possibilities.

You always got to be prepared but you never know for what.

Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.

Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.

Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.

For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.

If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

I don't like to have everything all worked out in my head because there's always a chance of it coming out different than you think it should anyway.

The only time a dead certainty applies is in a dream world.