Og Mandino Quotes

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

Everything can happen in tennis.

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.

Life is full of surprises.

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

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

Most things in life come as a surprise.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

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

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

Life has many twists and turns.

Life is so unpredictable.

Life is not what you expect: it is made up of the most unexpected twists and turns.

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

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will take, what a character will do or say to surprise us, how the events in the world will impact our story.

Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

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

I never expected that this would be my life.

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

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.

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

I don't like to make predictions, because my life's been pretty unpredictable so far.

Life is anything but predictable.