Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world. — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
Triumphs against the natural order of living exact unforeseen payments. At the same time that man attempts to straighten a crooked nature,… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
It is generally allowed, that no man ever found the happiness of possession proportionate to that expectation which incited his desire, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based… — Adrian Bejan Copy Share Image
Everything's not going to go perfect. You're going to have some losses that you're going to have to bounce back from and… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
At a certain point in history monuments became associated with kitsch, (it had never previously been so) and one might well ask… — Gillo Dorfles Copy Share Image
Secret ops by secret forces have a nasty tendency to produce unintended, unforeseen, and completely disastrous consequences. New Yorkers will remember well… — Nick Turse Copy Share Image
A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for only when we have seen and foreseen… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The superior person gathers his weapons together in order to provide against the unforeseen. — Confucius Copy Share Image
To be clear, geoengineering won't solve global warming. It's not a 'techno-fix.' It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
“With a certain frustration I knew I spoke too soon, too urgently. I wanted to get out of the way the things… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Every affliction tests our will, showing whether it is inclined to good or evil. That is why an unforeseen affliction is called… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
Americans, more than most people, believe that history is the result of individual decisions to implement conscious intentions. For Americans, more than… — George Will Copy Share Image
Turned the wrong way around, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied in "History", harmless history, where everything unexpected in its… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
