“ I haven't heard anything or seen anything out there that would lead me to believe that all of a sudden there's an unexpected drop in PCs. ”
- Daniel Morgan- Copy
- 951
“ A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 3.3K
“ The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness. ”
- Elias Canetti- Copy
- 3.8K
“ A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 2K
“ War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end. It has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. ”
- Thomas Paine- Copy
- 519
“ We won't always know whose lives we touched and made better for our having cared, because actions can sometimes have unforeseen ramifications. What's important is that you do care and you act. ”
- Charlotte Lunsford- Copy
- 1.9K
“ We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur. ”
- Dan Quayle- Copy
- 515
“ The superior person gathers his weapons together in order to provide against the unforeseen. ”
- Confucius- Copy
- 2.4K
“ I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen. ”
- Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher- Copy
- 3K
“ A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. ”
- Henri B. Stendhal- Copy
- 998
“ A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end? ”
- Alec Cairncross- Copy
- 806
“ We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still too close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest … might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion, as it had before. ”
- Daphne du Maurier- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative, there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the Providence moves too… ”
- W.H. Murray- Copy
- 1.7K
“ life never calms down long enough for us to wait until tomorrow to start living the lives we deserve. Live is always movement, always change, always unforeseen circumstances. There will always be something to grab your attention…Let's just acknowledge that as far as real life is concerned, we are only one step away from dealing with dysfunction… ”
- Sarah Ban Breathnach- Copy
- 1.7K
“ But when I said that nothing had been done I erred in one important matter. We had definitely committed ourselves and were halfway out of our ruts. We had put down our passage money — booked a sailing to Bombay. This may sound too simple, but is great in consequence… ”
- William H. Murray- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too… ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
- 2.5K
“ 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 moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing… ”
- David Mamet- Copy
- 1.1K
“ The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help that would never otherwise have occurred. A stream of events issues from the decision, raising unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. ”
- William Murray- Copy
- 314
- 1