Nothing ever goes as planned in China.
Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.
Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned.
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
Even the most straightforward of paths could turn out to be more complicated than it seemd at first.
A common civility to an impertinent fellow, often draws upon one a great many unforeseen troubles; and if one doth not take particular care, will be interpreted by him as an overture of friendship and intimacy.
Innocence lost is not easily regained. The designer simply cannot predict the problems people will have, the misinterpretations that will arise, and the errors that will get made.
I think that no relationship goes completely according to plan or the way you wished it had.
The devil fools with the best laid plans.
There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.
The ones that I love of 'I Love Lucy' are when one of them decides they need something, and the other one is along for the ride, sort of as the voice of reason, and is helping and making it worse.
One trouble with trouble is that it usually starts out like fun.
There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.
Do you think anything else can go wrong tonight?" Kaden turned to look at Nicholas coming up behind her and nodded. "Yes ma'am. I'd say all kinds of things could go wrong.
You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now?
Great power is setting a goal, working hard for it, and achieving it in exactly the way you expected with no consequences and no remainders after the long division is done. But does that happen to anyone? The unexpected always hitches a ride along with everything you planned.
In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.
When you're dealing with monkeys, you've got to expect some wrenches.
A lot of weird things happen in life that are not always pertaining to your main objective.
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear.
