It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace…

“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

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.

— Alan Bennett

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

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

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of…

— Hannah Arendt

When God overcomes our difficulties for us, we have the assurance that we are engaged in His work and not our own

— George Muller

For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble…

— H. L. Mencken

How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of…

— Calvin Coolidge

She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous…

— Elizabeth von Arnim