Top 100 Unpredictable Quotes
#1. Part of falling in love with someone is actually falling in love with yourself. Realizing that you're gorgeous, you're fearless and unpredictable, you're a firecracker spitting light, entrancing a hundred faces that stare up at you with starry eyes.
Leah Raeder
#2. The social sciences are usually concerned with groups of persons rather than individual persons. The behavior of individuals, being free, is unpredictable.
Carroll Quigley
#3. As confusing, unpredictable and stressful as life may be, always remember, it is never incorrect to be kind. When lost, just do nice things.
Sean Plott
#4. As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
Diane Frolov
#5. The word "essay" means to try out, test, probe. In the essay style, successive clauses and sentences are not produced by an overarching logic, but by association; the impression that prose gives is that it can go anywhere in a manner wholly unpredictable.
Stanley Fish
#6. I was a very unpredictable child. I'd pack a bag and go off and do a hike in the mountains for 10 days.
Kiesza
#7. I believe that this world was set about for us to enjoy and to love and to experience and to have it all be, to a certain extent, unpredictable. Ever since I was a child I have believed that my life has been guided.
Judith Jamison
#8. Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they can be responsible, dependable, and content.
Lauren Oliver
#9. It was inevitable for people to try to create a sense of normalcy in a place where nothing was normal. It helped one get through the day, to add predictability to a life that was inherently unpredictable.
Nicholas Sparks
#10. The logical mind creates fears based on past experiences and predicts a negative future, but the Universe is unpredictable. Therefore, your future can be hundred times better than your past. Either have faith or listen to your fears. Both cannot exist together!
Maddy Malhotra
#11. I'm very unpredictable. Very, very impulsive. Extremely. Absolutely! Sometimes I don't know what I want to do from one day to the next. I can't enjoy anything premeditated; I just do it as I feel it. But whatever I do is motivated by honesty.
Sharon Tate
#12. Individual talent is too sporadic and unpredictable to be allowed any important part in the organization society. Social systems which endure are built on the average person who can be trained to occupy any position adequately if not brilliantly.
Stuart Chase
#13. Frankly, I would have preferred finding a bomb in my room. I knew how to handle a bomb. The principal, on the other hand, was far more unpredictable. I
Stuart Gibbs
#14. The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.
Neil Postman
#15. What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.
Ze Frank
#16. What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.
Ian McEwan
#17. And tomorrow
who knows what happens? Do you get it? I don't know and no one knows
it's all unknown! You understand, that this is the end to the Known? This is the new, the improbable, the unpredictable.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#18. All that we can do with any spiritual discipline is produce within ourselves something of the silence, the humility, the detachment, the purity of heart and the indifference which are required if the inner self is to make some shy, unpredictable manifestation of his presence.11
James Finley
#19. This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.
Donald Cram
#20. It is predictable that God will take care of us. What's unpredictable is how he will do it.
Donna VanLiere
#21. Life is full of many unpredictable changes ... Let go of chaos yesterday; cheerfully live for today, and look forward to tomorrow with greater possibilities ... It's our imperfections that make us perfect in our own unique ways
Oprah Winfrey
#22. The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable.
Stephen Jay Gould
#23. The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.
Paul Auster
#24. In our struggle to understand the history of life, we must learn where to place the boundary between contingent and unpredictable events that occur but once and the more repeatable, lawlike phenomenon that may pervade life's history as generalities.
Stephen Jay Gould
#25. Life doesn't exactly give us what we need when it's the perfect time. It's not a pitching machine straight over the plate. Life throws curve balls - hard and fast, unpredictable. But you still have to hit that sucker or strike out swinging.
Kandi Steiner
#26. Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings ... but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern.
Robert A. Heinlein
#27. The Tao is unpredictable to those that live according to plans. Only those who have no agenda are in harmony with the Tao.
Laozi
#28. More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
Candice Millard
#29. At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
Isaac Asimov
#30. We asked the captain what course
of action he proposed to take toward
a beast so large, terrifying, and
unpredictable. He hesitated to
answer, and then said judiciously:
"I think I shall praise it."
Robert Hass
#31. Poets of course are even more unpredictable than other writers, overwhelmed as they are by the moment they inhabit and finding it difficult to connect yesterday with tomorrow.
Karl Shapiro
#32. The story of my life is profoundly unclear. It is a rock-and-roll story and, at the same time, a story of my walk with Christ. The two are melded together in ways both unpredictable and unsure.
Scott Stapp
#33. Relationships are not efficient; they are messy, time-consuming, and unpredictable.
Jefferson Bethke
#34. Though my behavior was worsening day by day, it was still difficult for her to reconcile the old image that she had of her daughter as trustworthy, hard working, and independent with the new, unpredictable, and dangerous one.
Susannah Cahalan
#35. I love great lyrics, and I love the way it could shape a tune into a very unpredictable one, and I also like taking a great melody and putting lyrics into it.
A.R. Rahman
#36. Human emotions were unpredictable and powerful things.
A.G. Howard
#37. Writing a novel, in an unplanned and unpredictable way, makes you engaged; it takes you into yourself, and it becomes something between you and the character for a moment, and then you move back into the structure of the book. I love those moments, because they are completely unbidden.
David Bezmozgis
#38. 'Into The Wild' had a great sense of wild, unpredictable freedom that I loved, and 'Unforgiven' is just a great western with characters that walked the line between right/wrong with an ambiguity that felt very true to frontier life.
Brendan Fletcher
#40. Motivation is a fine example of social complexity. It is nonlinear and sometimes unpredictable. It cannot be defined or modeled with a single diagram.
Jurgen Appelo
#41. Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.
Kate Braverman
#42. The things that are really out of control, and scary, are emotions - of people around you, that are unpredictable, or those in yourself which are unpredictable.
Spike Jonze
#43. I am definitely still the same kid that I was picking up the guitar at 15. But, I have definitely learned to be more flexible and roll with the punches. It's such an unpredictable business to be in and it's insane how things change so last minute.
Kate Voegele
#44. God is unchangeable changer, unadjustable adjuster, unmoveable mover, unpredictable predictor, unstoppable stopper, uninvisible visible, and wonderful wonder
Osunsakin Adewale
#45. After a couple of weeks in Polmont, I started to become more assertive and began arguing with older, bigger boys. I loved it. This is where my ugly side would make some scary and unpredictable appearances. Even to this day, I can go from a happy-go-lucky cunt to the devil on acid.
Stephen Richards
#46. Cursed, he once cried in a fit of rage. His temper has always been as restless and unpredictable as the sea itself. But his words had power behind them and I felt the effects instantly. Too late to take it back.
Jennifer Silverwood
#47. I'm emotionally unpredictable and all over the place.
Megan Fox
#48. I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and on like deserts, dry and desolate, with an unpredictable, shifting sea of dunes.
Marisha Pessl
#49. Rain amplifies your mistakes, and water on the track can make your car handle unpredictably. When something unpredictable happens you have to react to it; if you're reacting at speed, you're reacting too late. And so you should be afraid.
Garth Stein
#50. My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force that might, at any moment, break loose, and do something terrible. [Burnside, p. 27]
John Burnside
#51. It's beautiful. Your scar is your unpredictable imperfection.
Ashley Pullo
#52. The water moves on, a little faster than before, yet still the great river flows. It is as fluid and unpredictable in its moods as it has ever been, but it meanders within familiar banks.
William Dalrymple
#53. I wrapped myself in the flimsy hospital gown and tiptoed across the hospital room to sit down on the hospital bed, holding my arms across my chest, trying to contain my breasts. They seemed enormous and unpredictable without a bra.
Jessica Knoll
#54. We all must follow a different path to let our light shine, and that's what makes us so unpredictable and unique.
John Legend
#55. This is life. It's messy and unpredictable, full of wonderful surprises and mind.numbing disappointment. the uncertainty of it all is why I hide, trying to avoid all the pain and the heartache.
Denise Grover Swank
#56. All the uncontrollable and unpredictable parts of my life - from the actual creation to my emotional responses to the finished book - I've succeeded in banishing to the office. And I think I'm happier for it.
Jim Crace
#57. When I read the scripts, I'm always so excited to see what's going to happen because it's unpredictable.
Emmy Rossum
#58. My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.
Dashiell Hammett
#60. Day by day we are summoned beyond a safe theological "knowledge of description" to one of unpredictable "acquaintance.
Susan S. Phillips
#61. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups ... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
Aaron Sorkin
#62. It was extremely difficult to keep up any pace over the rocks since they were so unpredictable and devoid of reason. Their senselessness had never so much impressed me.
Iris Murdoch
#63. There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.
Philip Zimbardo
#64. It is a cliche, and it is also true, that humor springs from existential pain - from a need to blunt the awareness that life is essentially a fatal disease of unpredictable symptoms and unknown duration.
Gene Weingarten
#65. I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
John Green
#66. Performers are never more unpredictable than when they're full of adrenaline and failure.
Gwenda Bond
#67. I wish if I could fulfill the expectations of others. Life is unpredictable and there is no more humanity
Avinash Advani
#68. Everything is unpredictable once you are inside the ring.
Tomoki Kameda
#69. Revolutions are, by definition, unpredictable. A predictable revolution never erupts. Why
Yuval Noah Harari
#70. As a child, that had meant looking forward to holidays and birthdays and, most of all, becoming a grown-up. Upon achieving adulthood she had discovered that being a grown-up wasn't nearly as satisfying as she had anticipated. What was more, the future was uncomfortably unpredictable. At
Jayne Ann Krentz
#71. Maybe there's just sexuality, and it's bendable and unpredictable, like a circus performer ( ... )
David Levithan
#72. The only thing more unpredictable than magic is language.
Sully Tarnish
#73. Writers are sponges. They absorb life, then squeeze and ring it out onto a page. Sometimes, if they squeeze too hard, they dry up. Not hard enough and they remain saturated, heavy and unpredictable, as they carry around a volume of ideas too great for their capacity.
Sarah Colliver
#74. Not every day is a parade with fireworks, but every breath counts. Life is incredibly fucking hard, rarely fair, and always unpredictable. Most days, surviving is as good as it gets.
Jewel E. Ann
#75. Even though I knew this might end in heartbreak, that he might make my life scary and complicated and unpredictable, I knew I couldn't let him walk away. Because I knew he'd also make my life happy and comforting and full.
Kasie West
#76. Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable circumstances and extremes.
Frank Schatzing
#77. Girls are the trickiest and most unpredictable creatures a fellow like me will ever talk to.
John Elder Robison
#78. War was like sailing. You could learn about clouds, wind direction, and currents, but the sea remained forever unpredictable. All you could do was adapt to it and try to return home alive.
Carsten Jensen
#79. War is an unpredictable beast. Once unleashed, it runs like a rabid dog, ravening friend or foe alike. It can drag on for years, a slow attrition of nerve and fortitude, or be over in one brilliant flash, an extravagant conflagration of flame and blood and waste.
Kate Forsyth
#80. Embrace the unpredictable and unexpected. It is the path to the infinitely creative in you.
Deepak Chopra
#81. I'm certainly not interested in religion for religion's sake or for some kind of structure or stabilizing force. Religion is supposed to be for God's sake and God is an unpredictable, wild thing.
Ezra Furman
#82. And I know [other] faces aren't this colorful, this vivid, this lived-in, this superbly off-site, this brimming with dark unpredictable music. NOT THAT I EFFING NOTICE ... For the record, breathing is overrated.
Jandy Nelson
#83. It is unpredictable for you to know which of the strangers you are about to meet that becomes your friend. Be polite to every stranger!
Israelmore Ayivor
#84. My childhood was quite extreme. Sometimes I was so weak I could not stand up. But now I am so strong. Life is unpredictable
Ai Weiwei
#85. You see, even the inhuman ones were not always inhuman. This was a lesson that I would learn again and again - how completely unpredictable individuals could be when it came to personal morality.
Edith Hahn Beer
#86. Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.
Billy Sheehan
#87. Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.
Rene Dubos
#88. Life is unpredictable when you get non-standard behavior patterns.
Jake Busey
#90. I was still rather young, and I hadn't thought it through, how irrational, how unpredictable is the attraction between people, how fatal its current.
Magda Szabo
#91. Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong.
Francis Collins
#92. You know we're in a business where things are just unpredictable. You don't know what's going to happen ... we were lucky Blessed, I think is a better way to put it.
Aaliyah
#93. The world is so unpredictable.
Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly.
We want to feel we are in control of our own existence.
In some ways we are , in some ways we are not ...
Paul Auster
#94. Way is, where way goes. As a wind that blows and the bird that soars, into the open blue, where it neither knows when do is due.
Anthony Liccione
#95. The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim, the needy plebiscite of instantly famished drunks, or pregnancy.
Alexander Theroux
#96. As Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues, 'You can't adapt to commuting, because it's entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell every day.'
Tom Vanderbilt
#97. Life without God is extremely unstable and unpredictable.
Sunday Adelaja
#98. Hollywood is not known as a culture of grace. Dog-eat-dog is more like it. People love you one day and hate you the next. Personal value is very much attached to box office revenues and the unpredictable and often cruel winds of fashion.
Tullian Tchividjian
#99. Well, at heart I knew she'd never be a normal woman. And I didn't want her to be one, because what I loved in her were the indomitable and unpredictable aspects of her personality
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#100. For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable.
Joyce Carol Oates
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