Paul Brown Quotes

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

The older I get, the more I'm surprised with life. Things don't end up the way you think they will.

The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.

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

If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.

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

We won't really know what will happen until it happens.

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

Life is not what you expect: it is made up of the most unexpected twists and turns.

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

We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

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

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

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.

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

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

I've been a politician long enough to know that every year will find us living in a situation that one couldn't have imagined a year previously. Sometimes it's better than we imagined, sometimes it's not as good.

Most things in life come as a surprise.

I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

History is totally unpredictable.

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