Emily Berrington Quotes

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

It's something you hope doesn't happen. When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

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.

You're not always going to have a perfect day. You're not always going to have the day that you envision.

You can't prepare for something that you can't prepare for.

Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.

Life is full of surprises.

There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.

Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.

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

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Sometimes in life, random things can blind-side you.

Most things in life come as a surprise.

Life is an unending stream of extenuating circumstances.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.

Nothing ever goes as planned in China.

A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

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

There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.