Life may have plans that will completely overthrow your pettiness.
Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.
Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually .
Everybody's got plans... until they get hit.
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.
It was the damnedest thing, life. Once you decide exactly how things are going to go, something or someone comes along and messes it all up.
I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.
The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.
If I had known I'd be on Matador back then in my childhood, it would have blown my mind.
All in all I learned a lesson from it though. You never see it coming you just get to see it go.
Of course, I'm being rude. I'm spoiling the ending, not only of the entire book, but of this particular piece of it. I have given you two events in advance, because I don't have much interest in building mystery. Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me. There are many things to think of. There is much story.
I have seen too many people in my career think that there is some natural progression to life, with certain career milestones preceding whatever you may want in your personal life. Unfortunately, life doesn't know it is supposed to follow a schedule.
She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.
Anything can happen in one day.
I wouldn't necessarily be star-struck. I haven't been yet. But I don't know what happens in the future - maybe one day I will be. You never know.
You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.
Human affairs are governed by such a variety of whimsical circumstances, that we should always be prepared to stand the shock of that disappointment which the best concerted measures are constantly subject to.
He was otimsitic about the French providing military and financial Aid in the American Revolution.
One event makes another: what we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
The only surprise about the economic crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many.
I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.
There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.