Linda Ellerbee Quotes

You never know what curve balls life is going to throw you and there's no way I can predict anything or make any assumptions about what the rest of my life is going to be like.

I'm kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what's around the corner.

Bad things happen, and you can only be so prepared.

We don't appreciate luck in life when things are going well. No matter how smart I am and how I prepare, there are things that catch you off guard.

The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.

It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.

One never knows what life may have in store for us, and it's always good to know where the emergency exit is.

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold.

We can never tell what is in store for us.

But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.

There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.

From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.

Anything can happen in one day.

Life is full of surprises, isn't it?

Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?

Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.

Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.

You can’t dress rehearse the bad moments.

The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.

Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.

I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.

Life catches you by surprise. It always does. But there's good mixed in with the bad. It's there. You just have to recognize it.

You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.