Oswald Spengler Quotes

History is totally unpredictable.

No man can tell what the future may bring forth

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

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

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out.

History proceeds in zig zags through crooked paths.

Nobody knows what the future holds.

This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.

History is full of surprises.

Things never happen exactly how you think they will.

Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.

Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.

I always say that people are like peanut shells on the ocean: the waves will take them everywhere.

Life is tricky - you never know what's going to happen.

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you.

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

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.

Some projects go as you hope or imagine, and some change or reveal themselves in a different way; it depends.

The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens.

What fascinates me are the turning points where history could have been different.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.

What you think is going to be a big break or opportunity can sometimes turn into the opposite, and vice versa.