Something Predictable Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Give any chemically rich system enough time, with enough free energy, and something unusual, but ultimately predictable, will eventually occur.

John Zande

#3. You can put your trust in something that's obvious, that's measurable or predictable - but that's not faith. Nor is believing in something that gives you no pause for doubt, no reason or desire to question. Faith is something more than that. By definition, it cannot have proof as its foundation.

James Islington

#4. What had happened wasn't supposed to have happened and yet, they still rendered the predictable media spin of potential squandered, the gift of education sacrificed to the allure of thug life, etc. Not only simplistic, but also offensively so.

Jeff Hobbs

#5. Waxes and wanes with no predictable schedule or trigger.

Susan Ee

#6. This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up.

Paul Castellano

#7. Time limits tend to turn everything predictable and mundane into a novelty.

Rhian J. Martin

#8. Ultimately, nobody is predictable, least of all to himself ... there wouldn't be any point in writing fiction otherwise.

Jincy Willett

#9. The more predictable the business, the more valuable it is.

Donald J. Trump

#10. Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

Alfred A. Montapert

#11. Vianne had been improvising recipes for years, and people, to her mind, were not that much different than food. Both were highly predictable if you paid attention. First,

Kenley Davidson

#12. To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.

Annette Funicello

#13. Clean air and water, a diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources, and predictable weather are annuities that will pay dividends for as long as the human race survives - and may even extend our stay on Earth.

Alex Steffen

#14. It's like a sheet of blue-lined paper, the kind you write on at school, but with the lines suddenly missing. No structure. Nothing is predictable. Everything that might happen now is new. Sometimes disasters make me feel that way.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#15. And the weather was so damn sick of being predictable; I heard it began snowing in the Sahara and I wanted to tell you that I've changed.

Lang Leav

#16. Think about it this way: if you are too predictable in any area of your life, you may be paving the way to your own extinction!

T.D. Jakes

#17. Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.

Barbara Broccoli

#18. To some Humans, the promise of a patch land was worth any effort. It was an oddly predictable sort of behavior. Humans had a long, storied history of forcing their way into places where they didn't belong.

Becky Chambers

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

Patricia Cornwell

#20. Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been predictable and unexpected variations on the theme of being themselves.

Mary McCarthy

#21. I look for something that can challenge me or makes me ever so slightly afraid - fearful of how I am going to approach it - then I'll go for it. If the project appears linear or predictable, then I'll usually give it a miss. Anything that involves me being stretched as an actor, I go for.

Andrew Buchan

#22. Everything had been done long before I started making movies. I mean, there's nothing that Godard hasn't already done. You can't do a single thing that Godard hasn't already thought of. And so you struggle to do something that is not predictable.

Steven Soderbergh

#23. Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.

Mario Batali

#24. Predict the predictable, it sounds something strange and difficult, but so far is stupid. To predict the predictable is the stupid thing ever done by human kind.

Deyth Banger

#25. One of the things you don't have in Haiti is you don't have anybody on crack doing something completely out of - that's unpredictable. Even at the worst times in Haiti, the violence that had happened, the lack of security that happened, was largely predictable because it was politically tied.

Sean Penn

#26. I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's something too weirdly predictable about it.

Emily Mortimer

#27. 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

#28. The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain.

William S. Burroughs

#29. 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

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

Chuck Palahniuk

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. It's as predictable as the sun rising in the morning. Every time Barack Obama's poll numbers rise you can be certain he's done something else to weaken the country. He's empowered a base that loathes American excellence.

Dennis Quaid

#35. Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times ... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?

Tom Berenger

#36. You can concede to an opponent something he hasn't earned. It's one thing to underestimate an opponent. But maybe the worst thing is to overestimate. You always play your strengths. But that doesn't mean you become predictable.

Chuck Knox

#37. Darkness is so predictable.

Stephenie Meyer

#38. Absent a lot of surprises, stocks are relatively predictable over twenty years. As to whether they're going to be higher or lower in two to three years, you might as well flip a coin to decide.

Peter Lynch

#39. Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable.

Craig Venter

#40. When Newton breached this philosophical barrier by rendering all motion comprehensible and predictable, some theologians criticized him for leaving nothing for the Creator to do.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#41. The reliance on the heuristic caused predictable biases (systematic errors) in their predictions.

Daniel Kahneman

#42. Parenthood is harder than conventional work, the author suggests, because our jobs develop a somewhat predictable flow and offer relatively short-term feedback. This leads to internal comparisons to the improvisational nature of parenting

Jennifer Senior

#43. Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Isaiah Berlin

#44. How predictable, how perfectly average, how amusing.

Gillian Flynn

#45. If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable.

June Jordan

#46. What we call patriotism, in other words, is a calculable force which, released by a predictable situation, will animate man in a manner no different from other territorial species.

Robert Ardrey

#47. The only thing predictable about you is that you consistently appear when you suppose I least expect it. Perhaps that will be your undoing; for now I shall expect to see you every time I turn around.

Colleen Gleason

#48. We are giving the citizens of Poland a sense that a reasonable and predictable government is ruling here.

Donald Tusk

#49. In many ways, I'm incredibly lucky to have been born with my impairment and that it's visible. It means my path has been predictable.

Stella Young

#50. Men are, if nothing else, predictable. Fortunately for us all, women are not.

Karen Hawkins

#51. Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.

Keir Dullea

#52. I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more
chances, Be more active, Show up more often.

Brian Tracy

#53. Oh my God! Why did I leave India? I fell in love with a white man. That's what it was. It was the most boring, predictable reason in the world. I met him in India, we fell in love, and we got married. And then, we got divorced. Sorry about that.

Deepa Mehta

#54. So predictable makes you to sleep??
Makes you to get interested???
So what to start??? A company called Predictable???
Really???

Deyth Banger

#55. Once we get predictable, we get vulnerable.

Deyth Banger

#56. Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.

Nate Silver

#57. If it's a revolution it can't be predictable. And if it's predictable it can't be a revolution.

Clay Shirky

#58. Surprising choice proves hardest to come by. Most choices, even the disastrous ones, are predictable.

Carrie Snyder

#59. I think the influence of books is neither direct and more predictable. Books themselves are too unruly, and so are readers.

Maureen Corrigan

#60. Mary Beth considered the matter for a long time, and then explained in her simple straightforward manner that the future wasn't predetermined, it was merely predictable.

Anne Rice

#61. At one time or another, we all stand at the crossroads and at the fork in the road.We can go back where it's comfortable, predictable and easy. Or we can go forward. If you go back, my friend, you will miss the ride of your life!

Donna Schultz

#62. Entrepreneurs don't believe the future is predictable - but they do believe that they can create the future themselves.

Max McKeown

#63. Quite often, when one partner makes a positive change the other will also change. This predictable coincidence is one of those magical things about life.

John Gray

#64. Renewable energy has economic advantages that extend beyond steady, predictable electric rates - and Maine is in a good position to capitalize on those opportunities.

Chellie Pingree

#65. Human beings are disgustingly predictable, and this is as true of psychopaths as it is of grandmothers.

Douglas Preston

#66. This is a book for anyone undertaking an adventure and leaving behind a life that has been familiar, comfortable, and predictable.

Devin Brown

#67. It is predictable that God will take care of us. What's unpredictable is how he will do it.

Donna VanLiere

#68. I never want anything to be too predictable.

Mindy Grossman

#69. We must practice consistent, reliable, predictable, effective, thoughtful, compassionate and even courteous communication every single day to successfully sustain, develop and grow our business.

Kip Tindell

#70. I am sure that no one coming to this ceremony expected a High Court judge to use the occasion to talk about that four-letter word, love. But that's a good thing. In life, never be predictable. It's so uncool.

Michael Kirby