Unforeseen Quotes

70 Unforeseen quotes by 67 unique authors

Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways — Stephen Nachmanovitch
The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be… — Soren Kierkegaard
Triumphs against the natural order of living exact unforeseen payments. At the same time that man attempts to straighten a crooked nature, he is striving… — Richard M. Weaver
Always try to associate yourself closely with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you, who do better than… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory. — Claude Bernard
My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if in… — Kate Christensen
The people who fear humor - and they are many - are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights, to question received… — Robertson Davies
The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last… — David Mamet
It was old President Diaz who said that nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens. Things rock along from day to day, and then… — Charles Portis
What madness is this, inviting sable Death by warfare? It always hovers close and comes unforeseen on silent steps. — Tibullus
True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair… — P T Barnum
But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than to a positive… — Rene Dubos
Every entrepreneur faces trade-offs when founding and growing their company. As we discovered at YouTube, those early decisions have far-reaching impacts and lead to unforeseen… — Chad Hurley
As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary… — Napoleon Bonaparte
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 troubling unforeseen consequences. — Jamais Cascio
It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are… — Ulysses S. Grant
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers. — Brian Greene
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 some things that… — Tony Dungy
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain,… — Thomas Paine
We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur. — Dan Quayle
We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried to forget and… — Daphne du Maurier
Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose... — Neil Postman
Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen. — Robert Bresson
HOROSCOPE: Today is a good time for making new friends. A good deed may have unforeseen consequences. Don’t upset any druids. You will soon be… — Terry Pratchett
Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen. — Victor Hugo

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