Unanticipated Developments Quotes

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.

History, as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.

Everything can happen in tennis.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

Most things in life come as a surprise.

I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

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.

How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!

In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.

History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

I really do believe that people surprise you. And one of the powerful things about novels is that they're about characters, and those characters live their lives.

I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.

We expect surprises. There has to be surprises.

What interests me is the unforeseeable.

It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.

Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well.