Maria Konnikova Quotes

But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

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

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

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

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

History throws you what it throws you, and you never know what’s coming.

I guess if you live long enough, anything can happen.

If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.

Sometimes there's no warning. Nothing at all.

On ne sait jamais! One never knows!

There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.'

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

The only time I've tried to make plans, the cosmic sledgehammer has intervened and something else has happened. You just have to wait and see what comes your way, so that's what I do.

I like life to surprise me.

Heaven alone knows why I won it.

Human affairs are governed by such a variety of whimsical circumstances, that we should always be prepared to stand the shock of that disappointment which the best concerted measures are constantly subject to.

Bad things happen, and you can only be so prepared.

Every day and every scene, it's never the scene that you expect.

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

Life is anything but predictable.

Life is so unpredictable.

Life is all about the unexpected.

You never know how life turns out.

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.

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