In life things often go wrong, and the future rarely…

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The challenging time of life will teach you two things, History: where did I get it wrong? and Future: How will I get it…

— Aigienohuwa Clement

Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past…

— Ben Bernanke

“That's the problem with life. Things seldom stay the same do they? And the future rarely turns out quite the way we expect.”

— Cash Peters

I've always noticed that films set in any sort of future very rarely draw on the present.

— Nicolas Roeg

“Indeed we all try to raise our children as if our past experiences are important for their future, but they rarely are.”

— Nelson DeMille

I do see myself settling down, getting married and having kids. But when I think about a family life in the future there's rarely…

— Amy Winehouse

“From the get-go, my hair was programmed to fall out. One is grateful this so rarely happens with the pancreas or the eyeballs.”

— Michael Perry

My goal is to get in bed by 11. That rarely happens. But I celebrate when it does happen.

— Neil Blumenthal

Poisoning rarely happens in a well-managed kitchen.

— C. J. Cherryh

I need to like what I do and very rarely it happens that you hear a script and you just want to do it.

— Arshad Warsi

I always have this idea to create and display activities somewhere else around the world, but in fact it's been very difficult since the…

— Miuccia Prada

Whenever you want a radical shift, it rarely happens.

— Steve Easterbrook

It happens very rarely, but when it happens it's worth waiting for, that the instrument becomes part of your body.

— Jack Brymer

Sometimes in theater, they'll talk about your character a lot before you enter, but that rarely happens in television.

— Justine Bateman