A Quote by John Pentland Mahaffy

In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.

John Pentland Mahaffy

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John Pentland Mahaffy
February 26, 1839 - April 30, 1919

I believe a united Ireland is inevitable. I have never put a date on it.

Martin McGuinness

Experiment! Meet new people. That’s better than any college education . . . By adventuring; about, you become accustomed to the unexpected. The unexpected then becomes what it really is . . . the inevitable.

Amelia Earhart

Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected - whether it's movies or people or relationships. I'm always ready for the punch directly between the eyes. So I get hurt, but I never get hurt. Happens all the time.

Brian Grazer

The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.

John Maynard Keynes

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

Terry Eagleton

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

Norton Juster

Look how often the unexpected happens - yet we still never expect it.

Ashleigh Brilliant

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

Robert Baden-Powell

No one is ever as shocked and surprised as when the inevitable occurs.

Paul Baran

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Laurence J. Peter

Originality finds the unexpected but inevitable next step.

Mason Cooley

If Northern Ireland is in one customs regime and the Republic of Ireland is in another, why won't a customs border be necessary, just as happens with every other land border of this type?

David Gauke

Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.

Galileo Galilei

Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable.

Rosa Luxemburg

Ireland is a series of stories that have been told to us, starting with the Irish Celtic national revival. I never believed in 'Old Ireland.' It has been made all of kitsch by the diaspora, looking back and deciding what Ireland is. Yes, it is green. Yes, it is friendly. I can't think of anything else for definite.

Anne Enright

Genuine bravery occurs when you least expect it, and when, in fact, you're quite oblivious of it. Sometimes heroism happens when you press on; other times when you let go. Once in a while, it happens when you do a little dance all your own.

Gerald Hausman

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