Top 100 You Can't Predict Quotes
#1. You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
Nancy Gibbs
#2. When I'm making records, I don't go in with any intentional [ideas for] cohesion, it just happens by accident. That's the X factor; you can't predict that.
Jason Lytle
#3. I'm going to close out this book with some bad news. One day you're going to die, and you can't predict when that will be. All I can guarantee is that it will be sooner than you expect.
Roosh V
#4. The funny thing about destiny is that you can't predict it, and you can't prevent it.
- Leslie
Kathy Love
#5. I think it's fair to say you can't predict a straight line to victory. You know, there'll be good days and bad days along the way.
Dick Cheney
#6. You know that you can't predict and you can't expect that you should have predicted. You do the best you can, as decently as you can, and you accept the consequences.
Robert B. Parker
#7. You can't predict the future. It turns out that you can't predict the past either. Time moves in both directions - forward and backward - and what happens here and now changes them both.
Nicola Yoon
#8. With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.
Bryan Cranston
#9. You can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control?
John Lloyd
#10. You can't predict the outcome. You can't raise a child and then tell them what to think.
Aimee Bender
#11. You can't predict the future, but you can plan for it
Saji Ijiyemi
#12. You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.
Tennessee Ernie Ford
#13. You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.
Aaron Spelling
#14. You can't predict tomorrow. And because you can't predict tomorrow, you have to be realistic with what you have today. It doesn't mean don't enjoy yourself but enjoy yourself at the right time.
Lemar
#15. You can't predict how much time you will get to embrace your opportunity. You have to go after it with everything you have in you, sacrifice and believe.
DeeDee Trotter
#16. The beauty of inspiration for me is that you can't predict when it's coming. I like that it just pops up out of nowhere. You just have to be open to its arrival.
Scout Niblett
#17. You can't predict it all. People will tell you to plan things out as best you can. They will tell you to focus. They will tell you to follow your dreams. They will all be right.
Elizabeth Warren
#18. When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen.
Margaret Chan
#19. That's really what it comes down to, in the end. Making choices. You can't predict life, but you can do your darndest to make it the best it can be.
Kaira Rouda
#20. I've learned that you can't predict [love] or plan for it. For someone like me who is obsessed with organization and planning, I love the idea that love is the one exception to that. Love is the one wild card.
Taylor Swift
#21. The realization that you can't predict the future
and mold it
could only come as a shock to an academic.
David Harsanyi
#22. Despite all of our technological advances, content creation still requires time, inspiration, and a certain amount of sweat. There aren't any shortcuts. You can't write an algorithm for it. You can't predict it. You can't code it.
Shawn Amos
#23. What seems terrible at first may turn out to be a great thing. You can't predict.
A. J. Jacobs
#24. People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love.
Haruki Murakami
#25. Is a twist less satisfying if you know it's coming? Is a twist that you can't predict symptomatic of bad construction? These are things to consider when writing.
Gabrielle Zevin
#26. Lyndi patted my hand. "That's how love is. You can't predict it. You can't fight it. Sometimes it comes softly. Sometimes it comes fast. Sometimes it's easy and sometimes it's hard. But always- always you have to fight for it."
Lyndi
Micalea Smeltzer
#27. You have no control over the market. You can't predict where it will go, and you can't bring it back from the depths. What you can do is save more. Make sure you have cash on hand - an emergency fund of at least six months of expenses.
Jean Chatzky
#28. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before. Light
Raymond Chandler
#29. You can't predict what someone else is going to do and when someone else is going to leave.
Jennifer Connelly
#30. Juggling many projects and having all these accidental collisions that you can't predict enables a kind of comparative thinking. To focus on a single project from beginning to end is extremely difficult, not just for me, but for many people.
Natalie Jeremijenko
#31. There are some times, when you can predict weather well for the next 15 days. Other times, you can only really forecast a couple of days. Sometimes you can't predict the next two hours.
DJ Patil
#32. You can't predict the number of years it will take for someone to find themselves, to mature into their own voice. When I got to be 30, I was finally writing like Danny Brown.
Danny Brown
#33. Life plays a role of oxymoron. You can't predict the actual sense of it unless you feel it.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#34. I'd rather be Vincent Price than a red-neck character actor. You can't predict what will happen.
Robert Englund
#35. The thing is that it is incredibly frustrating to anyone who would control it, because you can't predict the impact of any technology before you put it in place.
Terence McKenna
#36. You never know until a song comes out and becomes what it becomes, obviously you can't predict how the masses will react.
Nelly
#37. Nothing in life is guaranteed. You can't predict how many days you'll have on this Earth, how many more sunsets you'll be here to see. I want you to make me a promise. Always watch the sunset, baby girl.
Jessica Prince
#38. A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.
Raymond Chandler
#39. It's a simple complex system. That's the technical name for it. Because it's simple, it's prone to cascades, and because it's complex, you can't predict what's going to fail. Or how. It's computationally impossible.
James S.A. Corey
#40. You cannot predict the future but you can love and then love some more.
Julieanne O'Connor
#41. This is one of the weird things about motherhood. You can predict that some of your best moments will happen around the toilet at six am while you're holding a pile of fingernail clipping like a Santeria priestess.
Tina Fey
#42. I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
Taylor Hackford
#43. If you choose the right people for the group, it goes a little bit differently. At the same time, you can't always predict what's going to happen. Success might change people.
Paul Wall
#44. What you reject today, you could accept tomorrow. And what you accept today, you could reject tomorrow. Never say never unless you can predict the future.
Suzy Kassem
#45. Gottman has found, in fact, that the presence of contempt in a marriage can even predict such things as how many colds a husband or a wife gets; in other words, having someone you love express contempt toward you is so stressful that it begins to affect the functioning of your immune system.
Malcolm Gladwell
#46. Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy or the stock market. Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on what's actually happening to the companies in which you've invested
Peter Lynch
#47. If you stay in the attention you are in, then you can predict everything that will happen to you for the rest of your life.
Frederick Lenz
#48. The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.
Billy Beane
#49. If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?
Dan Malloy
#50. Because falling in love is like rain. You can't always predict it and when you do it might never appear, but you can always see the signs of it before it falls.
K. Bromberg
#51. Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework of physics was this: If you tell me how things are now, I can then use the laws of physics to calculate, and hence predict, how things will be later.
Brian Greene
#52. If you know a person's history, you can use it to help predict what that person might do. A person's history can be the key to understanding his motivation for committing a crime.
Julia Spencer-Fleming
#53. In physics, all can you do is predict the consequences of physical laws.
Leonard Mlodinow
#54. What I am saying is that you have to continue being you. You can't change the past or predict the future. And you can't let him continue to control you.
Kendall Evone Hayes
#55. I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.
Jason Aldean
#56. Listen," he said gently and stepped closer. "No one can predict the future, but right now you're the most important thing to me. I would regret it for the rest of my life if we didn't give this a chance.
Angie Stanton
#57. You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.
Carlisle Floyd
#58. But no one can predict of a certainty what will happen. And none of it will change how I intend to spend the rest of my life. I will live it on my terms. And you ... you can have all of me or nothing. I won't be an invalid any longer. Not even if it means losing you.
Lisa Kleypas
#59. Not moving because things are unfamiliar-and you haven't bothered to learn how to operate on them-I think is really a crime. The uncertain is the unknown and the unknown is the future, and you cannot predict the future. But the unfamiliar? You can learn how to operate in that.
Orit Gadiesh
#60. I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it isn't. And sometimes you pay no attention to something whatsoever, and God just makes it into everything.
Donna Summer
#61. Your path is your path, for better or worse. It is what it is. You don't know what's going to happen in life. You've got right now and that's it. Can't change the past, can't predict the future.
Sabrina Paige
#62. I can't recall ever once having seen the name of a market timer on Forbes' annual list of the richest people in the world. If it were truly possible to predict corrections, you'd think somebody would have made billions by doing it.
Peter Lynch
#63. It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice.
Emily Blunt
#64. Whatever past you had, when you become a mother, it's a whole different thing. You can't even predict it. I've seen women who were nightmare party girls, who were just crazy, and then they have a baby, and this thing comes over them and changes them.
Ivana Milicevic
#65. You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.
Frederik Pohl
#66. Sometimes as a man, you fear what you can't see. Nobody can predict the future. You don't know what's going to happen. Tomorrow's not promised. The only thing you can do is live your life, hope for the best, continue to have faith, believe in yourself.
Michael Vick
#67. They say that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and I've learnt a great deal, but you can never predict the future, so the best thing is just to do whatever you're asked to do to the best of your ability.
Jeremy Hunt
#68. Things happen in production - bad things that you can't always predict. One
Michael T. Nygard
#69. Please, please, please, my dear competition. We can beat each other and fight each other as much as we want and argue, but do not predict how a system really works when you really don't know and don't want to know. Either be better informed, or don't do it.
Hasso Plattner
#70. Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.
Nicole Kidman
#71. What to do when the market goes down? Read the opinions of the investment gurus who are quoted in the WSJ. And, as you read, laugh. We all know that the pundits can't predict short-term market movements. Yet there they are, desperately trying to sound intelligent when they really haven't got a clue.
Jonathan Clements
#72. 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
#73. Things happened the way they were supposed to, and it was no use trying to predict what was going to come next. People liked to think otherwise, but what you thought had no practical influence on what eventually happened. You can't think yourself well. You can't make yourself fall out of love.
Sarah Addison Allen
#74. If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.
Howard Gardner
#75. To assume you know someone well enough that you can and do predict their behavior and mental perspective is a gross and often tragic mistake, for it eliminates that person's freedom to create his or her own opinion and drastically affects the emerging picture of the relationship.
Meredith L. Young-Sowers
#76. You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.
Hope Solo
#77. The problem in cinema is that you can never predict what will happen.
Denis Villeneuve
#78. You can never predict what's going to be successful, so you have to do the one you really love, and I picked 'Mad Men.'
Christina Hendricks
#79. You can only predict things after they have happened.
Eugene Ionesco
#80. I've learned that you can never predict what will happen to a film. You can never predict if people will love it, if they'll hate it. It's an act of ego if you're hoping for everyone to love the film and tell you how great you are.
James Gray
#81. So the audience, at times, lets us know actually what is so special about the show that we can't even necessarily design or predict. Which is great. That's what you want art to be. You want it to be alive and to actually have a life in the way it's viewed.
Steve Zissis
#82. What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#83. You can never predict what an audience is going to respond to and what they're going to watch.
Josh Lawson
#84. Do not try to predict the effects your actions will have, because you can't. Instead, encourage people to adapt their actions to realize the overall intention as they observe what is actually happening. Give them boundaries which are broad enough to take decisions for themselves and act on them.
Stephen Bungay
#85. You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#86. In Arizona we have passed laws to free our people so that they can defend themselves and their loved ones. You cannot predict where evil will raise its head, but you can be prepared for it.
Russell Pearce
#87. All we can tell you is that this race is too close for honest pollsters to predict.
Ed Garvey
#88. You can't count on notoriety lasting very long, and there's no way to predict whether anyone will care about your books or you in three years, let alone ten or twenty.
Dan Chaon
#89. Relevance is not something you can predict. It is something you discover after the fact.
Thomas Sowell
#90. You talk about seeing around corners as an element of success. That's what differentiates the good leader. Not many people have it. Not many people can predict that corner. That would be a characteristic of great leaders.
Jack Welch
#91. The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios ... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.
George Soros
#92. What impresses me... are .... humans they are so simple... species... soooo simple that you can predict each move if you want so much!?
Deyth Banger
#93. I would never predict a run like that. Last season, that's beyond reality. I think we can go 25-14. I think we can play 10 games over .500, even more than (that) over .500, and that would be a great run. Any time you go 30-15 or something like that, that's pretty incredible basketball.
George Karl
#94. You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.
Andy Warhol
#95. If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.
Karl Schroeder
#96. Classical mechanics gave us a deterministic view of the world. Quantum mechanics, conversely, gives us a probabilistic view instead. According to Newton, if you know the cause af an event, you can predict the outcome. According to M.Born, you can only predict how likely that outcome will be.
Leonid V. Azaroff
#97. If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#98. The reason that neither he nor I could predict my life, any more than you can predict yours, is that life is not linear; it is organic.
Ken Robinson
#99. You should never even ask if a campaign is winnable, because the question is not answerable. No-one can predict the course of the future. Time and time again I have seen completely unforeseeable shifts in the tide of events that result in campaign victory.
Elizabeth May
#100. There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
Barry Diller
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