Shonda Rhimes Quotes

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

"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. "Yeah, that's true," I say. But then after I think about it for a second, I add, "But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all."

All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

You can never plan the future by the past.

The future is, of course, imaginary - an unreal place that I create from my expectations, which are made from my remembered experiences, especially repeated experiences.

When you walk out of your house in the morning, you don't know what you're going to see.

I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.

You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.

We promise according to our hopes; we fulfill according to our fears.

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

The ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year – and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

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

I’m concerned about all areas of uncertainty.

The comedy seeds were planted before the Marine seeds. The thought of comedy never happening was scary. When you have a plan, you never know what will happen.

You can only have a short sight because things change a lot. You can't plan what the years will bring.

Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them.

It's difficult to talk about the future because you never know.

Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.

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

We weren't allowing our hopes to become expectations. Expectations are tempting, pleasant, maybe necessary. They are scary too, once you have had some experience. They are not necessarily and not always a bucket of smoke, but they can be and are even likely to be.