Anna Quindlen Quotes

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

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.

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

The older I get, the more I'm surprised with life. Things don't end up the way you think they will.

We expect surprises. There has to be surprises.

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

I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will take, what a character will do or say to surprise us, how the events in the world will impact our story.

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

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

No man can tell what the future may bring forth

I don't like to make predictions, because my life's been pretty unpredictable so far.

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

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

When ideas are confronted with reality, there will always be surprises.

What I like about the EMAs is that you will never know what happens.

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