George Eliot Quotes

My main point today is that usually one gets what one expects, but very rarely in the way one expected it.

When you choose a show you really don't know where it's going to go. Sometimes things let you down and sometimes things just surprise you and fulfill you way more than you thought.

All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.

We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion the blow. But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes. But one thing is certain when it finally reveals itself. The future is never the way we imagined it.

You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

Things are always different from what they might be.

Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.

All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.

Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

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

Some projects go as you hope or imagine, and some change or reveal themselves in a different way; it depends.

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

I always try to plan things out, but they never work out the way I expect.

What you think is going to be a big break or opportunity can sometimes turn into the opposite, and vice versa.

I do not believe they've run out of surprises.

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

… experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur!

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

The older I get, the more I'm surprised with life. Things don't end up the way you think they will.

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

Every time I try to plan something or assume that something's going to happen, it never works out like that.