Kelly Corrigan Quotes

Sometimes in life, random things can blind-side you.

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

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

You don't realize what you're going to get, and you can't prepare yourself for it.

One never knows what life may have in store for us, and it's always good to know where the emergency exit is.

Sometimes there's no warning. Nothing at all.

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

When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

Life itself is so surprising, a predictable story is unsatisfying.

We don't appreciate luck in life when things are going well. No matter how smart I am and how I prepare, there are things that catch you off guard.

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.

The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.

I think surprises are what's great about life: "WHOA! I didn't see that coming!"

The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

My whole life has largely been one of surprises.

Just so you know: if this ever happens to you, you will not be ready.

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.

Life has many turns.

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

Life is full of surprises, and you need to be ready for everything.

I hate to predict my future. I never really thought I would be a head coach at 34 years old. I never thought I would be traded to Tampa. I never even really thought I would be fired, even though I probably deserved it. I try not to predict things.

My life so far has been a long series of things I wasn't ready for.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.

Professor Trelawney: "Everything went pitch-black and the next thing I knew I was being hurled headfirst out of the room!" Harry Potter: "And you didn’t see that coming?" Professor Trelawney: "No, as I say it was pitch — ” [Glares at Harry angrily]