Rainer Weiss Quotes

Who likes surprises? Nobody I know likes surprises. But facts change on the ground.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

Most things in life come as a surprise.

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

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

History, as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.

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

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

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

History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

It's exciting not knowing what tomorrow, or the next month, or the next year holds.

It's been predictable, in the sense of 'expect the unexpected'.

The expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever.

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

You never know what could be interesting tomorrow.

When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

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

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

Every day and every scene, it's never the scene that you expect.

I like when people don't know what to expect.

Life will be interesting only when there is an element of surprise in it.

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.

I always say expect the unexpected!

In life the only thing that you can expect is the unexpected; the only surprise is a day that has none.

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