Quotes About Unpredictability

#1. Governments don't protect people, people protect governments."
"Order is organic, it can't just be ordered up."
"The more complexity, the more unpredictability and therefore the more uncontrollability. You cannot control what you cannot predict.

Lawrence Samuels

#2. The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.

Douglas Coupland

#3. The eyes were certainly memorable and beautiful, moist calves' eyes heavily lashed and with the same look of troubled pain at the unpredictability of the world's terrors.

P.D. James

#4. I don't like sitting around sets - I don't like the unpredictability of it.

Andrea Martin

#5. The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.

Margaret Atwood

#6. Chaos theory describes nonlinear systems. It's now become a very broad theory that's been used to study everything from the stock market to heart rhythms. A very fashionable theory. Very trendy to apply it to any complex system where there might be unpredictability.

Michael Crichton

#7. The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.

Truman Capote

#8. The Drop's unpredictability is organic rather than sensationalistic. The movie doesn't pull surprises out of thin air for the sole purpose of shocking an audience - it lets them develop naturally.

James Berardinelli

#9. I think there are two types of people - those who view life's uncertainty with dread and fear, and those who recognize that life's unpredictability is what makes life worth living.

Christopher E. Long

#10. Happiness can not be prescribed, postponed or preserved.

Relish its unpredictability. Cherish its exclusivity. Accept its brevity. But above all savour its delicious exquisiteness. Do not let it go cold!

Dimity Powell

#11. Sometimes when you go looking for what you want, you run right into what you need.

Wally Lamb

#12. Jesus Himself was untamed.

Mark Batterson

#13. You should never trust anyone completely," said Ragginbone, smiling a half-smile which snaked up one side of his face. "Unpredictability is a vital aspect of intelligence.

Jan Siegel

#14. And this accident came about ... ?Through nature's unpredictability not man's incapacity. No errors were committed in our maneuvers. Nevertheless, we can't prevent a loss of balance from taking its toll. One may defy human laws, but no one can withstand the laws of nature.

Jules Verne

#15. Unpredictability is closely related to uncontrollability.

Joan Z. Borysenko

#16. There's that unpredictability factor, that chance that something completely unexpected - something amazing - could happen. That's what makes life an adventure. Sometimes you just have to jump in and trust the universe.

Tess Gerritsen

#17. If I stage things too much and nothing changes in the act of photographing, then I might as well have not taken the picture: If the whole thing already exists in my head, then I haven't learned anything. The tension lies between the staging and the unpredictability.

Justine Kurland

#18. The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability.

Ronnie James Dio

#19. The biggest test for parents is not how they parent, but how the respond to disorder and unpredictability.

Sarah Newton

#20. I think the fun of following the movie box office and stocks is very similar to the fun of sports - all three combine passion and unpredictability.

Leonard Mlodinow

#21. The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.

Christopher Hitchens

#22. Baseball's absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all

Roger Angell

#23. There is that unpredictability of the seasons that I enjoy. I like the threat of a tornado. I like the threat of four feet of snow.

Paul Westerberg

#24. I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability.

Tibor Kalman

#25. I didn't know whether to trust Alaska, and I'd certainly had enough of her unpredictability - cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next. I preferred the Colonel: At least when he was cranky, he had a reason.

John Green

#26. But deep down I always knew there is no way to order chaos. It's the fundamental theory at the beginning and end of everything; it's the ultimate law of nature. There's no way to win against unpredictability, to suit up completely against accidents.

Alexandra Fuller

#27. If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many people talk about, 'Well, let's just go attack them.'

Robert M. Gates

#28. Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence.

Jon Landau

#29. that the Black Swan has three attributes: unpredictability, consequences, and retrospective explainability. Let

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#30. There's a deep underlying unpredictability to life that is thrilling. In China, my wife would say you go out to buy toilet paper, and you come back, and something interesting or revealing or funny happened on the way.

Evan Osnos

#31. The only guarantee in life is death, and the only guarantee in death is its shocking unpredictability.

Brian Herbert

#32. I don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability.

Olafur Eliasson

#33. Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.

Eric Hoffer

#34. 'Press Your Luck' was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game and how I won on one of the three days on the very last spin against all odds. It was one of those great unpredictable game show moments.

Randy West

#35. So you have two basic options: deny the unpredictability of life and create your own false sense of security, or accept the vagaries of life and learn to live with them.

Steve Pavlina

#36. Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the first half of a novel, the unpredictability should be the more striking. In the second half, the inevitability should be the more striking.

Elizabeth Bowen

#37. Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.

Joel Edgerton

#38. But there is always that unpredictability about a derby match and that's what it was today.

Alex Ferguson

#39. Surprise, unpredictability: these are the main materials of creativity.

Gueorgui Pinkhassov

#40. Howard Zinn wrote in 1988, in what now seems like a lost world before so many political upheavals and technological changes arrived, "As this century draws to a close, a century packed with history, what leaps out from that history is its utter unpredictability.

Rebecca Solnit

#41. We can all name people we take for granted, because everybody's swamped. Overwhelmed. Harried. We mean to make memories with people who matter, but often, we put it off for someday. And someday morphs into never, as Life's unpredictability claims the people we love.

Andra Watkins

#42. Of course, to be truly 'surveillance free' required unpredictability or its cousin, spontaneity.

Jeff Shear

#43. In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

Alan Lightman

#44. All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.

Arthur C. Clarke

#45. Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true partners with women in relationships that are full of excitement, unpredictability, adventure, and loyalty.

Ian K. Smith

#46. Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.

Eric Alterman

#47. Amalia had the unpredictability of a splinter, I couldn't impose on her the prison of a single adjective.

Elena Ferrante

#48. 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

#49. Love is as irrational as hate and just as unpredictable.

Marty Rubin

#50. Spiritual maturity is marked by being comfortable with the unpredictability of God.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#51. He was what the egotistical part of me had always longed for: danger, sexiness, popularity, style, unpredictability. The kind of man who'd always keep me guessing. Just one night with him and i'd already started to wonder if perhaps i'd spent the last two years in a comfortable coma.

Lucy Robinson

#52. ,m./But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be 'set fair' that Fate invariably decides to take a hand.

John Bude

#53. Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.

Michael Keaton

#54. It's about taking everything you thought was true and throwing it out the window. It's about embracing life's unpredictability, letting go of boundaries, and starting over

Sara Shepard

#55. Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.

Max De Pree

#56. Unpredictability is the greatest asset a leader can have.

Richard M. Nixon

#57. The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

Eric Hoffer

#58. Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable.

Deepak Chopra

#59. 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

#60. We would have met again some other time or in some other place,' he said. 'We would have been given other chances. Life recognizes the unpredictability of our movements in any given life. Somehow we would have met, Jane. We were determined that it would be so before we entered this life.

Mary Balogh

#61. I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.

Jane Smiley

#62. What was it that gave Ammu this Unsafe Edge? This air of unpredictability? It was what she had battling inside her. An unmixable mix. The infinite tenderness of motherhood and the reckless rage of a suicide bomber.

Arundhati Roy

#63. Black Swan has three attributes: unpredictability, consequences, retrospective explainability.

Nicholas Nassim Taleb

#64. I think there are always people that you meet in your life that scare you a little, but not because of the terror in their eyes so much as their unpredictability.

Joshua Sasse

#65. And here we see again that we do not decide our own lives. Dieneke, even if we won't see each other again on earth, we will never be sorry for what we did, that we took this stand.

Diet Eman

#66. I love being in the ocean. I love the unpredictability of it- size of wave, animals you see, etc.

Francis Chan

#67. In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#68. My storm is my own...Enter if you dare. However, bear in mind that the tempest of desire is fraught with unpredictability from the highest peaks to the depths of the abyss. Do not expect a smooth ride, but expect a true and passionate one...

Virginia Alison

#69. Necrophilia to include the desire of certain people to control others - to make them controllable, to foster their dependency, to discourage their capacity to think for themselves, to diminish their unpredictability and originality, to keep them in line.

M. Scott Peck

#70. Openness to God demands our growing acceptance that we cannot create blueprints for our own lives. Though God's character is unchanging, the ways of God are unpredictable, and there is a difference between arbitrariness and unpredictability.

Enuma Okoro

#71. If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.

David Tudor

#72. How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?

Malcolm X

#73. It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true

Freeman Dyson

#74. An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.

Criss Jami

#75. The unpredictability of life
sucks. One minute you're
riding high with the wind
whipping through your hair
and the next minute you're
flat on your ass with a face
full of gravel.

Alison G. Bailey

#76. The bright side of life's unpredictability is that it's not over until it's over. As dark as the passages and confusing as the cul-de-sacs that you find yourself in are, progress is nevertheless being made. Something is unfolding. You are becoming.

Marion Winik

#77. The darkest period of my life, so far, arrived the summer I was pregnant with my eldest son. The future was growing in me with all of its terrifying unpredictability, and I found myself anxious, unable to work and woefully at sea.

Lauren Groff

#78. The loss, the harshness, the unpredictability of the Australian country. Can I deal with this? Maybe only with Aiden by my side. What would that life be like? The pleasure, the satisfaction, the love.

Stella Knights

#79. My life shows a clear pattern of total unpredictability.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#80. The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.

Bear Grylls

#81. Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you're engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting ... wonderful!

Joe McNally

#82. It seems symbolic of this all-pervading unpredictability that those engaged in the perfection of the means of destruction have finally brought about a level of technical development where their aim, namely warfare, is on the point of disappearing altogether.

Hanna Arendt

#83. I would use the debt limit. I don't want to say - I want to be unpredictable, because, you know, we need unpredictability. Everything is so predictable with our country.

Donald Trump

#84. One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of causation may separate final effects from ultimate causes lying outside the domain of that field of science.

Jared Diamond

#85. Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.

James Fallows

#86. Drunken people make me nervous. I dislike their predictable unpredictability - the emotions that are so intense and seem to turn on a dime.

Amy A. Bartol

#87. Whereas previous generations had to face some unpredictability, current generations are facing unprecedented levels of instability.

Miles Anthony Smith

#88. Going forward, you must adjust to the new reality, be more self directed, and learn to be productive under the reign of uncertainty, unpredictability, and unstable times.

Jennifer Touma