Evan Osnos Quotes

Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

I like the serendipitous surprises of reality.

I like to be surprised by life.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

I like life to surprise me.

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

Life itself is so surprising, a predictable story is unsatisfying.

If you look at a great city, one of its amazing features is that you're going to find all sorts of things that you might not specifically have chosen in advance. And they will change your day. Maybe your month. Maybe your whole life.

I guess if you live long enough, anything can happen.

As much as you try to organize your life, life will surprise you.

My whole career's been kind of crazy, so you can't really surprise me.

A lot of weird things happen in life that are not always pertaining to your main objective.

The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.

Anything can happen in this world, for an ordinary girl

Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it

What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!

Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.

I think surprises are what's great about life: "WHOA! I didn't see that coming!"

The point is to stumble upon things in your life, and not plan them out.

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity, and when you're photographing children there's often an abundance of it. I would have an idea of what a photograph would look like and then something would happen - a dog might lumber in and become a critical element. I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

Life ... is never the way one imagines it. It surprises you, it amazes you, and it makes you laugh or cry when you don't expect it.

life is always bringing unexpected gifts.

It's funny how things happen in life. Sometimes, you just take the opportunity when it comes. Life can be surprising.

The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.