Michael Lewis Quotes

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

The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.

Life doesn't often turn out the way we think it will, does it?

One shouldn't know the future.

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

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

You can only predict things after they have happened.

I'm dumbfounded, but nothing surprises me in this game.

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

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

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.

The past and the present are within the field of my inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer.

No man can tell what the future may bring forth

Things happen slower than you think that they will, but when they do occur, they happen much faster than you think they will.

I don't like to make predictions, because my life's been pretty unpredictable so far.

What I like about the EMAs is that you will never know what happens.

I have planned my whole future, my whole life. And nine out of 10 times, it never happens the way you want or plan or think it's going to happen.

You can't predict things in football because anything can happen.

I don't think anyone can ever predict a phenomenon. It's not something you can bank on.

I'm always shocked by what people react to.

What interests me is the unforeseeable.

When you can’t imagine how things are going to change, that doesn’t mean that nothing will change. It means that things will change in ways that are unimaginable.

It's very hard to predict what people are thinking.

The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed

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