Expecting the Unexpected Quotes

Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.

Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.

One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.

As they used to say on Stingray, ‘Anything can happen in the next half hour’. I’ve always tried to live with that thought in mind.

The thrill of not knowing what's going to happen, trained me to be prepared for anything.

You never know what's going to happen, so I get up at 6 a.m. every morning. It's a new wakeup call for me, for sure. But you just want to be polished. That way, if anything happens, I'm ready to go. I'm not going to sit in a makeup chair for an hour and be like, "Then I'll go get the story."

We must prepare for everything.

I expect the worst of every situation, so if it does happen I'm prepared for it.

You've got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.

You never know what you're going to have to face, so you'd better be prepared.

There are no guarantees, but being ready sure beats being taken by surprise

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.

Whenever something great happens, you’re always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.

Be ready at all times for the gifts of God, and always for new ones.

I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.