What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected…

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

— Benjamin Disraeli

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

— Benjamin Disraeli

One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“To be sure, this is what generally happens when one eats cake; but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing…

— Lewis Carroll

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

— Edith Wharton

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.

— Alan Bennett

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

— Samuel Johnson

Generally, that's what happens-a fundamental rotting of the idea. They woke up with the wrong idea. It's just like music: If you don't have…

— William Eggleston

And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.

— Geraldine Brooks

He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“An “event” is something that happens that does not quite fit into our established system of knowledge, and so it will appear to us…

— Mark T. Conard

“Growth is never an event, it's a process.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for…

— Barton Gellman

Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of…

— Richard Attias

Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room.…

— Nancy Gibbs