Stephen Colbert Quotes

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

It's not about 'if', it's about 'when.'

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

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

You can never expect things to happen like they did the last time. You still have to put in the work.

I don't prepare to sit on the bench, I prepare to play because you never know what is going to happen.

In my career, I've found that anything can happen.

Circumstances change and you have to be proactive about changing with those circumstances.

Life is a series of surprises.

Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.

Opportunity always looks bigger going than coming.

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

When you choose a show you really don't know where it's going to go. Sometimes things let you down and sometimes things just surprise you and fulfill you way more than you thought.

I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.

Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.

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.

No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.

I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.

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

I don't know whether we will find ourselves in the cross hairs, pulled by the short hairs, or just trying to find the next inane hairstyle. But change is coming; it is inevitable. It is as steady and reliable as a ticking clock.

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

Any time there is change, there is opportunity. So it is paramount that an organization get energized rather than paralyzed.