Unpredictable Circumstances Quotes

We almost manage to forget that things happen that we don't anticipate.

There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.

It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules. Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. "Guess what? I'm a worker.

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

Look, we're living in a crazy time right now. There's a lot of craziness going on in the world and in the United States in particular.

I, perhaps, at that stage, had the kind of ambition that others may have had; you know, namely based on the concept that if you were trained the world was out there waiting for you to provide a certain kind of leadership and give you an opportunity. But with the Depression, I began to see that there were certain social forces over which the individual had very little control.

People would pull the rug out from under me. So I learnt how to dance on a moving carpet.

Everything was a constant battle. My first film was beautiful. I got an amazing cast. That worked out great. Everything else was like murphy's law. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.

What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die - that's that.

It's an obstacle being a girl when you move all over and don't have half the things you need. It's like everything is wrinkled in your life.

Chaos is the penance for leisure.

I think that's a universal theme, you know: we don't know who we're going to meet tomorrow. And that person might change your life entirely. There's always that possibility, and while you're not necessarily actively seeking it, you have that desire deep down.

Sometimes you're traveling a highway, the only road you've ever known and wham! A semi comes from nowhere and rolls right over you. Sometimes you dont wake up. But if you happen to you know things will never be the same. Sometimes that's not so bad. Sometimes lives instersect, no rhyme, no reason, except, perhaps, for a passing semi.

A lot of times in life, it's personal choices that you're making, actively, and then there's a myriad of forces and circumstances that are out of our control. And without even realizing it, you're riding a wave of events that you have no control of.

We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?

I sometimes still go out hunting for bad weather, flying low in simple airplanes to explore the inner reaches of the clouds. Less experienced pilots occasionally join me, not to learn formal lessons about weather flying, but with a more advanced purpose in mind - to accompany me in the slow accumulation of experience through circumstances that never repeat in a place that defies mastery.

Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it.

You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.

I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.

An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words

People say to me, 'Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange.'

My business in the beginning was very lawless and the more trouble I go into, the more the promoters liked me back then. I was on the front page for doing something wrong, the arena was full. Then, all of a sudden, everything changed somehow and they put rules in. You put rules in a gunfight? I'm not so good at following those rules. I don't' know what will happen at WrestleMania.