Top 98 Unforeseen Quotes
#1. Life is not fair. The moment one believes in total bliss, it gets shredded by circumstance and unforeseen accidents
Audrey Carlan
#2. Accident is simply unforeseen order.
Novalis
#3. From whatever angle he viewed their dawning intimacy, he could not see it as part of her scheme of life; and to be the unforeseen element in a career so accurately planned was stimulating even to a man who had renounced sentimental experiments.
Edith Wharton
#4. Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.
Horace
#5. Instead of worrying over unforeseen misfortune, set out with all your soul to rejoice in the unforeseen blessings of all your coming days.
Orison Swett Marden
#6. With a certain frustration I knew I spoke too soon, too urgently. I wanted to get out of the way the things I knew to say, wanted to say, the things I'd been thinking, all in the hope of moving into the unforeseen.
Denis Johnson
#7. Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.
Robert Bresson
#8. Let's Talk is a practical guide that will greatly help young
adults at the workplace to navigate through unforeseen and
vulnerable social situations. Harsh Goenka
Mukta Mahajani
#9. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reckon on the unforeseen.
G.K. Chesterton
#10. Any serious reading of the Bible means personal involvement in it, not symbol mental agreement with abstract propositions. And involvement is dangerous, because it leaves one open to unforeseen conclusions.
Megan McKenna
#11. The truth is that people never realize their lives are about to change in unforeseen ways
that's just the nature of unforeseen ways.
Will Schwalbe
#12. A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters
Julio Cortazar
#13. If there was one thing a competent fighting force did not need, Hux knew, it was unforeseen outbursts of individuality.
Alan Dean Foster
#14. Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.
Adrian Bejan
#15. A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
Stendhal
#16. We have to remember that not every action taken to solve a problem will be free of unforeseen consequences. No matter how good our intentions.
Rachel Fischer
#17. The word he used was not "wallowing," there being no animals on Anarres to make wallows; it was a compound, meaning literally "coating continually and thickly with excrement." The flexibility and precision of Pravic lent itself to the creation of vivid metaphors quite unforeseen by its inventors.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#18. Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for - life by keeping eyes, mind and heart open to nature, men, books, experience - and what he gathers serves him at unexpected moments in unforeseen ways.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
#19. The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion which, we know not how, the mind transmutes into thought.
George Gissing
#20. Sometimes a spontaneous action can have all kinds of unforeseen consequences.
Leslie Hachtel
#21. In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#22. The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.
Marcus Aurelius
#23. Life includes unforeseen incidents that prove critical to promote personal growth. Life rarely gives us what we want. We are lucky if life gives us what we need in order to fulfill the path that was in place at our birthing.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#24. Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.
Pierre Boulez
#25. Unspoken words between you and I,
Present in the eyes of knowing,
Lost in the realm of unforeseen beauty,
I am yours.
Truth Devour
#26. The more the climate is forced to change, the more likely it is to hit some unforeseen threshold that can trigger quite fast, surprising and perhaps unpleasant changes.
Richard Alley
#27. Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#28. 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 on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#29. 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 to come after them, and under unforeseen contingencies.
Ulysses S. Grant
#30. Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.
Henry Fielding
#31. 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, and that is to increase taxes.
Thomas Paine
#32. A common civility to an impertinent fellow, often draws upon one a great many unforeseen troubles; and if one doth not take particular care, will be interpreted by him as an overture of friendship and intimacy.
Joseph Addison
#33. I began to trust the world again, not to give me what I wanted, for I saw that it could not be trusted to do that, but to give unforeseen goods and pleasures that I had not thought to want.
Wendell Berry
#34. Today's tangents will become tomorrow's arcs, and unforeseen connections will tie up your loose ends in a way that will make you want to slap your head and holler at your accidental brilliance.
Chris Baty
#35. I began to realize that life, despite moments of happiness and joy, is really about discovering priorities and dealing with unforeseen vagaries, differences, obstacles, inconveniences, and imperfections.
Maureen McCormick
#36. For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
Quentin Crisp
#37. Sacred blessings and divine opportunities appear in your life disguised as unforeseen changes and challenging circumstances.
Miya Yamanouchi
#38. She didn't get angry with anyone, because that would mean having to react, having to do battle with the enemy and then having to face unforeseen consequences, such as vengeance.
Paulo Coelho
#39. One-dimensional opinions can create enormous errors in our thoughts, behaviors, and actions. These errors can have unforeseen consequences in our lives and the lives of organizations, communities, and nations.
Debasish Mridha
#40. The superior person gathers his weapons together in order to provide against the unforeseen.
Confucius
#41. In the end, it all comes down to how you cope with the unforeseen.
Jeffrey Archer
#42. It isn't necessarily the great and famous beauty spots we fall in love with. As with people, so with places. Love is unforeseen, and we can all find ourselves affectionately attached to the minor and the less obvious.
Muriel Spark
#43. He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling unforeseen wing-footed wanderer.
William Butler Yeats
#44. Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar
Marshall McLuhan
#45. To be strong in the Force is one thing. But to believe oneself to be all-powerful is to invite catastrophe. Remember, that even in the ethereal realm we inhabit, the unforeseen can occur.
James Luceno
#46. Students engaged in direct experience with materials, unforeseen obstacles, and serendipitous discoveries may result in understanding never anticipated by the teacher.
Sylvia Libow Martinez
#47. What madness is this, inviting sable Death by warfare? It always hovers close and comes unforeseen on silent steps.
Tibullus
#48. 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
#49. What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes.
Isaac Asimov
#50. But that was what research and development were like. Full of semi-triumphs and perplexing unforeseen consequences like the whole violent hiccuping thing when conjuring up fire - or the propensity for fillings to fall out of bystanders' teeth when attempting to tease a rainstorm out of a cloud.
Jasper Fforde
#51. I'm not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don't know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.
Margaret Atwood
#52. We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
Dan Quayle
#53. Nothing is more imminent than the impossible ... what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.
Victor Hugo
#54. Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.
Leonard Susskind
#55. Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust.
Max Von Sydow
#56. The unforeseen, that strange, haughty power which plays with man, had seized Gauvain and held him fast.
Victor Hugo
#57. People fear the unforeseen and the unseen. Truth be told we all fear the unseen.
Lee Boyd Malvo
#58. Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
Heraclitus
#59. You did what you should have done. Accept that sometimes the consequences are harsh and unforeseen. Accept that you cannot always allow for every result. There is nothing wrong in this.
Terry Brooks
#60. I am the creature you have not seen. I am you. I am me. The echo unforeseen. Sometimes in front, sometimes behind, A constant companion, for we are entwined.
John Tiffany
#61. I was not so insane as to attempt to bend events to conform to my policies. On the contrary, I bent my policies to accord with the unforeseen shape of the events.
William Duggan
#62. Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.
Hugh Blair
#63. A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
Alain Badiou
#64. 1) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
Self
#65. Failure is not a destination; it's an invitation to unforeseen VICTORIES.
Les Brown
#66. 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 all at once you are caught up in a rush of unforeseen events.
Charles Portis
#67. The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
Brian Greene
#68. The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible.
J.M. Coetzee
#69. I tend to worry about each "emergency" or unforeseen complication on all my projects. But there are so many! All of life is unforeseen! So I am learning that is the cycle of life - everything is cyclical and temporary and to get ok with that someday could be my greatest achievement.
Kristin Bauer Van Straten
#70. The people who fear humor - and they are many - are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights, to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities.
Robertson Davies
#71. Secret ops by secret forces have a nasty tendency to produce unintended, unforeseen, and completely disastrous consequences. New Yorkers will remember well the end result of clandestine U.S. support for Islamic militants against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan during the 1980s: 9/11.
Nick Turse
#72. One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences.
Raymond E. Feist
#73. He had not lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand than the impossible, and what must be looked for is the unforeseen.
Victor Hugo
#74. The dramatic arises out of the margin of opaqueness between a writer and his personages, out of the potential for the unexpected. In the full dramatic character lurks the unforeseen possibility, the gift of disorder.
George Steiner
#75. 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
#76. No doubt even more unforeseen denouements lie in somebody's archive, though few remain to care about them.
Anthony Heilbut
#77. But an action which wants to serve man ought to be careful not to forget him on the way, if it chooses to fulfill itself blindly, it will lose its meaning or will take on an unforeseen meaning; for the goal is not fixed once & for all; it is defined all along the road which leads up to it.
Simone De Beauvoir
#78. 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 a tornado's aftermath, birdsong, sunshine, supersaturated colors, wreckage all around, and myself, dazed and limping.
Kate Christensen
#79. The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help.
Napoleon Hill
#80. If there are unforeseen and potentially disastrous repercussions to the rash acts of the ignorant, so too are there unanticipated consequences buried in works of genius.
Chris Turner
#81. Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a great deal of risk. Moreover, even in a strong economy, unforeseen life events and risks in local real estate markets make highly leveraged borrowers vulnerable.
Ben Bernanke
#82. Life is full of uncertainties, perhanps one day some unforeseen circumstance would bring her into his life once more
Murasaki Shikibu
#83. Don't you know by now?" Thomas said, touching his lips to my hair. "It's somewhere in the unforeseen when the best, most important moments of our lives seem to happen.
Jamie McGuire
#84. 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 are a little unforeseen that you're going to have to deal with.
Tony Dungy
#85. 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?
Alexander Cairncross
#86. A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
Claude Bernard
#88. I have always attached great importance to the manner in which an experiment is set up and conducted ... the experiment should be set up to open as many windows as possible on the unforeseen.
Frederic Joliot-Curie
#89. The arrival of the unforeseen reveals the depths of one's heart.
Wm. Paul Young
#90. There is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reason on the unforeseen.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#91. Act boldly and unforeseen forces will come to your aid.
Dorothea Brande
#92. The absurd ... the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.
Soren Kierkegaard
#93. To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression.
I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.
Emil Cioran
#94. One unforeseen advantage of having a child was that it gave me the excuse to talk to myself to my heart's content and pretend it was for my daughters benefit.
Catherine Sanderson
#95. Without imagination of the one kind or of the other, mortal existence is indeed a dreary and prosaic business ... Illumined by the imagination, our life, whatever its defeats - is a never-ending unforeseen strangeness and adventure and mystery.
Walter De La Mare
#96. He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.
Victor Hugo
#97. Nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens.
Porfirio Diaz
#98. And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.
Wendell Berry
