Unforeseen Future Quotes

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.

Nobody knows what the future holds.

You never know what God has in his plans for you.

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

Britney proposing to me on a plane three months after we met, and getting married two months later was just us living in the moment. I really thought I'd spend the rest of my life with her.

I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that's the last thing I wanted.

If someone had told me in 1963 that one day I would be in Congress, I would have said, 'You're crazy. You don't know what you're talking about.'

I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.

If you told teenage me that I would end up supporting Tegan and Sara for a month in North America, my head would have probably exploded.

I never expected to live this long.

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.

You do not choose the life you will experience ahead of time. You may select the persons, places and events - the conditions and circumstances, the challenges, the opportunities and options - with which to create experiences. What you create with these is your business.

It never occurred to me that I would live this long. I just went on and on, and I’ve loved it

Life is unpredictable and you need to live every day to the fullest.

Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions.

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.

I was sitting in the nosebleeds eating hot dogs and watching Georges St. Pierre win the world title from Matt Hughes. Like never in my wildest dreams if someone would have tapped me on the shoulder and said, 'Hey, seven years from now you're going to be down there doing the same thing' would I have believed them.

What else she doesn't know: that the man next to her would end up being her husband and the father of her two children, that after two years together he would leave her, her third and final heartbreak, and she would never love again.

I don't know what my future is.

At the very least, we want everything to go on hold for a while because there is this feeling that we're heading down a path in a way that we never, ever intended when we were 18 and dreaming of what life would be like.

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

When I was 25, if you'd have said I was going to be a commentator, that would seem like, 'Oh, my God. That's a huge step down.'

It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that.

Actually, the books were never a planned career path.

If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.