Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

The past guarantees you nothing in the future if the rules change.

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

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

We won't really know what will happen until it happens.

You just can't control your art in the future.

The last occasions when the timetable of our lives would be interrupted for many years to come.

Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.

You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

History is totally unpredictable.

The important thing to remember is war does not progress linearly. The future course of events is going to be very difficult to predict with a high degree of precision.

The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.

People's lives often don't turn out as they expect.

You never know what could happen.

In war trivial causes produce momentous events.

Give me the character and I will forecast the event.

God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event.

The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed

There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.

It is not possible to rule out anything because we don't know what will happen.

We don't have to look for what the next thing will be. If experience is any judge, it'll come flowing toward us like a river.

You should never even ask if a campaign is winnable, because the question is not answerable. No-one can predict the course of the future. Time and time again I have seen completely unforeseeable shifts in the tide of events that result in campaign victory.

I have to live for the day, and not worry about or try to know what tomorrow brings.... if I've learned one thing from all that'shappened to me, it's that if you would know what tomorrow brings, you may not want to live it.