Predictable Quotes

#1. Travelling', she sighed.'So predictable.'
'What's wrong with travelling?'
'Avoiding reality more like.'
'I think reality is over-rated,' he said in the hope that this might come across as dark and charismatic.

David Nicholls

#2. History, rather than following a predictable path from the past to the present, is like a meander: a twisting and turning stream shaped over time by a combination of obvious and imperceptible forces.

W. Bruce Fye

#3. People are going to have to make themselves predictable, or the machines will get angry and kill them.

Gregory Bateson

#4. Vision encompasses vast vistas outside the realm of the predictable, the safe, the expected.

Charles R. Swindoll

#5. Anger and violence in Gaza and among Gazans is completely predictable. In a situation like ours, the absence of violence and anger would be abnormal. All of of us feel angry at least occasionally.

Izzeldin Abuelaish

#6. I just find that humans are predictable and stupid and animals and nature are a lot more magical to me. I'm just interested in magic, and not the silly humans.

Jason Lytle

#7. clean, efficient, rational, and predictable government is a competitive advantage.26

Graham Allison

#8. You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know.

Joe Mantegna

#9. One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

Taylor Swift

#10. Even the alternative weekly newspapers, traditionally a bastion of progressive thought and analysis, have been bought by a monopoly franchise and made a predictable shift to the right in their coverage of local news.

Bernie Sanders

#11. Love isn't something predictable, Sky, and doesn't follow rules. You can't decide who to fall in love with, or when. Love and logic don't go together, but when I'm with you, everything makes sense.

Lisa Swallow

#12. Routine and predictable days are the breeding grounds for complacency.

Wayde Goodall

#13. It was in its strangeness and in its familiarity an illustration of someone else's life going on in its own way, steeped in itself, its own business, its own dailyness, its own particular sorrow or joy, all of it more or less predictable

Alice McDermott

#14. Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.

Kit Reed

#15. Some things were done a certain way and they had been done that same way for ages. Most of the time it was a good thing, a reliable thing, and we grew up being able to count on life being very predictable and very dependable.

Arlene Stafford-Wilson

#16. I have often had the impression that, to penguins, man is just another penguin -different, less predictable, occasionally violent, but tolerable company when he sits still and minds his own business.

Bernard Stonehouse

#17. Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

Tina Weymouth

#18. In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are smarter - they plan ahead. They think about not getting caught.

Eoin Colfer

#19. I was too restless as a boy to sit through an entire mass. It was akin to aversion training. I looked at it like a puppet show with a totally predictable story line. The only aspect I really liked was the music.

Frans De Waal

#20. My previous outlook could be summed up as follows: Life is shit. Math makes sense. Fictional characters are superior to real people because real people are equal parts pitiful and predictable.

Penny Reid

#21. Life is predictable for it is based on fixed laws and principles.

Sunday Adelaja

#22. Losing a chunk of your memory is a tricky thing, a deep-sea quake triggering shifts and upheavals too far distant from the epicenter to be easily predictable.

Tana French

#23. So Hermione was the siren, and Lucy was the trusty friend, and all was right with the world. Or if not right, then at least quite predictable.

Julia Quinn

#24. I don't want to know what's going to happen. As frightening as that is in real life, it's a crucial aspect in creativity. Being predictable is boring, and it's also disheartening and usinspiring.

Carrie Brownstein

#25. The most important advances, the qualitative leaps, are the least predictable. Not even the best scientists predicted the impact of nuclear physics, and everyday consumer items such as the iPhone would have seemed magic back in the 1950s.

Martin Rees

#26. Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

Carl Rogers

#27. The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.

John Avlon

#28. Terror is so delicious," she remarked. "You're disappointingly predictable, Harmonia. All these years and you would still risk everything for him. Tsk, tsk.

Courtney Cole

#29. How predictable," Grimalkin sighed, appearing in the doorway. We gaped at
him, and he regarded us with amusement. "I thought you might need a second way out. Why is it always up to me to think of these things?

Julie Kagawa

#30. It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.

Naomi Campbell

#31. Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.

Celia Green

#32. Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment - that which they cannot anticipate.

Sun Tzu

#33. Scripts are corny and predictable. Real life is always better.

Lauren Conrad

#34. The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds.

Lewis Thomas

#35. When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.

Rem Koolhaas

#36. Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.

Gay Hendricks

#37. When terrorists find something that works they keep on doing it. It's predictable.

Patricia Cornwell

#38. Negative relationships are unpleasant but predictable.

Adam Grant

#39. He had perfected the art of looking interested, and could grasp in surprise at any and every predictable punchline.

Ian Rankin

#40. Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

Hannah Arendt

#41. The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine.

Joyce Carol Oates

#42. Off this fucking predictable soap opera, this will happen now, then that, then that and you say that you are christian and you start watching series of Turkey people which believe in a very different god so far god of hell - Allah...

Deyth Banger

#43. Perhaps one day earthquakes, hurricanes and financial crashes will all be predictable. But we don't have to wait until then for seismology, meteorology and economics to become sciences; they already are.

Eric Maskin

#44. Shane looked ... pale. Pale and shaken and - how predictable was this? - pissed.

Rachel Caine

#45. Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

Chet Atkins

#46. If life were predictable it would cease to be life,and be without flavor

Eleanor Roosevelt

#47. It's not getting any better for the American people. It seems to be getting worse. That's predictable; education is a cycle. Stupidity breeds more stupidity.

Bill Maher

#48. Wishing the world was predictable an controllable does not make it so, and it might make us disregard what is actually happening

Jean G. Boulton

#49. since nothing is more predictable than the media's parroting of its own fictions and the terror of each competitor that it will be scooped by the others, whether or not the story is true, because

John Le Carre

#50. He shared the common human hallmark: he was simultaneously predictable and unfathomable -- a routine miracle.

Robert Sheckley

#51. Set aside predictable, regular times to give full attention without being distracted by other concerns while also creating a safe, familiar place for baby to spend time playing alone.

Magda Gerber

#52. The few people who earned my respect are those who are predictable in their character but totally unpredictable the way they think!

Assegid Habtewold

#53. There is a somewhat-surprising, somewhat totally predictable paucity of struggle in entertainment television. I do like being a part of a show featuring a family from a struggling socioeconomic strata.

Lucas Neff

#54. Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental, and stale.

Terry Tempest Williams

#55. If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.

David Brooks

#56. Governments must take on the central role of creating an investment climate across Africa that supports enterprise and the role of the private sector and provides a clear and predictable economic policy framework for business to succeed.

Jeroen Van Der Veer

#57. Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways.

Stephen Jay Gould

#58. I gasp. The profoundness of such a gesture, from a self-seeking fae, touches my soul. The only thing predictable about my future king is his unpredictability. "You once told me you wouldn't be a gentleman. You lied."

A.G. Howard

#59. The Surrealist supernatural is a bit predictable but given the choice between supernatural and anything else, I would have no hesitation. Long live supernatural!

Henri Michaux

#60. I don't like shows that are predictable. I like it when you're shocked and you have no idea who's about to die.

Aaron Douglas

#61. What most people call "chaos" is actually incredibly predictable and maddeningly boring - greed, close-mindedness, warring over power.

Greg Saunier

#62. When the world is predictable you need smart people.
When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people.

Henry Mintzberg

#63. Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.

Alan Moore

#64. Once upon a time she had felt trapped inside her story with its familiar characters and predictable plot. Now she felt locked out of it.

Roderick Townley

#65. A calling isn't something new and shiny. Often it's something old and predictable, a familiar face that's easily taken for granted, an old habit or hobby that comes back into our lives.

Jeff Goins

#66. Was this normalcy-predictable patterns, the certainty of doing the same thing everyday? Because if so, normalcy was about to make me freak out and start screaming.

James Patterson

#67. What work a person does to earn a viable income shapes their thinking patterns, buttresses their sense of self-worth, and affects how they adapt to predictable and unpredictable obstacles.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#68. The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.

Warren Buffett

#69. I love you Aurora Eden you are so unpredictably predictable!

Lyn Gardner

#70. The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.

Marc Andreesen

#71. The Devil is powerful, but he's also predictable. We are told in 1 John 2:16 the exact three ways he's going to come after us. "For everything in the world - the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does - comes not from the Father, but from the world.

Lysa TerKeurst

#72. Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.

Mark Lawrence

#73. Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.

Charles Francis Richter

#74. For most people, whenever possible, important habits should be scheduled for the morning. Mornings tend to unfold in a predictable way, and as the day goes on, more complications arise -

Gretchen Rubin

#75. While American roads offer predictable safety, Indian roads compensate by providing unending entertainment, and even some opportunities for self growth. An Indian road is a stage where Life seems to be unabashedly living itself out.

Ajit Harsinghani

#76. The predictable thing about 'The Good Wife' is how unpredictable 'The Good Wife' is.

Archie Panjabi

#77. Rocky is a very predictable movie. The ending is a foregone conclusion.

Sylvester Stallone

#78. Second, the law has to be predictable. There has to be a reasonable expectation that the rules tomorrow are going to be roughly the same as the rules today.

Anonymous

#79. I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.

Jim Jarmusch

#80. Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional ... a map to self discovery.

Gabrielle Roth

#81. Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is cause for celebration, death has become a dreaded and unspeakable issue to be avoided by every means possible in our modern society. Perhaps it is that.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#82. He liked that bones were solid things, surviving even the white heat of cremation. Bones would last; it was easy for him to put his faith in something so solid and predictable.

Kim Edwards

#83. This is followed by laughter because we're in high school, which means we're predictable and almost everything is funny, especially if it's someone else's public humiliation.

Jennifer Niven

#84. Everything good or bad that has occurred in my life has been predictable and inevitable, especially the choices and actions that have made sure I am now utterly alone.

Lucia Berlin

#85. The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive."

Fred Ritchin

#86. When all the normal patterns and routines of a person's life fell apart - and with such shocking suddenness - you had to find something you could hold onto, something that was both sane and predictable.

Stephen King

#87. If she's too predictable because you talk about the relationship all the time instead of going out and having one, he'll get bored quickly.

Sherry Argov

#88. She kept hoping that something would happen to rescue her from her own small-scale, predictable dreams.

Chuck Palahniuk

#89. aphorism 90:

I am incorrigible. I would have every object of the universe mechanically predictable but myself.

Matt Berry

#90. A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.

David Steindl-Rast

#91. The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be a financial crisis was perfectly predictable: its general nature, if not its magnitude. Markets are always inefficient.

Noam Chomsky

#92. As one conservative intellectual said to me - he said if the choice is between [Joseph] Stalin and [Adolf] Hitler, I'd pick Stalin, meaning Ted Cruz because he's more predictable. So there's real civil war inside the Republican Party.

Mara Liasson

#93. If a system is chaotic (most are), then it implies that however good the resolving power may be, the time over which the system is predictable is limited. Perfect predictability is not achievable, simply because we are limited in our resolving power.

Leonard Susskind

#94. Risk is the stuff that sucks the predictability right out of the very things that we desperately wish were predictable.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#95. I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.

Mehmet Oz

#96. There was what people called "present bias" - the tendency, when making a decision, to undervalue the future in relation to the present. There was "hindsight bias" - which he thought of as the tendency for people to look at some outcome and assume it was predictable all along. The

Michael Lewis

#97. I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you can't catch it.

Ambrose Bierce

#98. Success is predictable.

Brian Tracy

#99. Instead he was grabbing at whatever was available in this system that no longer held the old predictable relationship between effort and result as true

Panashe Chigumadzi

#100. No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something interesting going on with my skin.

David Nicholls