Predictable Quotes - Page 9

• To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, World, Be A Man

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• Life had a way of wrecking her careful plans, again and again. Roulette was more predictable than life. Small wonder she was so lucky at it.Life was not a wheel going round and round. It never, ever returned to the same place. It didn't stick to simple red and black and a certain array of numbers. It laughed at logic.Beneath its pretty overdress of man-imposed order, life was anarchy.

  Loretta Chase

  Simple, Men, Order

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• Each day is born with a sunrise and ends in a sunset, the same way we open our eyes to see the light, and close them to hear the dark. You have no control over how your story begins or ends. But by now, you should know that all things have an ending. Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. Every flower returns to sleep with the earth. The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimate ART.

  Suzy Kassem

  Art, Flower, Sunset

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• I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.

  Sheridan Smith

  Mind, Unlikely

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• The trouble with life is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor, or at least violently uneven. The twists are either predictable or sensationalist. And it’s always the same beginning, and the same ending.

  Martin Amis

  Twists, Looks, Fluidity

  FaceBook post by Martin Amis from Aug 19, 2011

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• Studies of people who report high well-being in their fifties and sixties indicate that they have lived lives that involved personal risks. They are not people whose lives have been calm and predictable. A life under tight control sometimes produces quiet desperation. High well-being is a life that has depth and quality. Risks, losses, problems, and tragedy add pain to a life. That pain becomes a teacher. We learn; the pain gives us no choice.

  Jennifer James

  Teacher, Pain, Loss

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• 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

  Country, Needs, Use

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove will verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is in an undeniably low-quality situation: that the value of his predicament is negative. This low quality is not just a vague, woolly-headed, crypto-religious, metaphysical abstraction. It is an experience. It is not a judgment about an experience. It is not a description of experience. The value itself is an experience. As such it is completely predictable. It is verifiable by anyone who cares to do so.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Religious, Intellectual, Quality

  "Lila : An Inquiry Into Morals". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1991.

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• 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

  Animal, Race, Air

  "The Next Green Revolution" by Alex Steffen, www.wired.com. May 1, 2006.

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• Will now allow Reno to claim she is doing a vigorous investigation of campaign financing, when in reality Judicial Watch's public depositions show she is not. Not even John Huang's secretary has been questioned by Justice investigators nor has any other Commerce official. Commerce is at the center of the Clinton Administration's illegal fund-raising. In short, the plea agreements are sadly predictable.

  Larry Klayman

  Reality, Agreement, Justice

  "Two Democratic Fund-Raisers Charged In Campaign Money Probe" by Terry Frieden, www.cnn.com.

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• I think all good narration contains an element of mystery and suspense. If it didn't, if the storyline were predictable, we would have no interest in reading it.

  James Lee Burke

  Reading, Thinking, Suspense

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• Unfortunately, many of our churches calibrate their life to these nominal Christians. The predictable result is that you get fake, hypocritical churches that confuse the message of the gospel and make it hard for others who are trying to do genuine evangelism.

  Mark Dever

  Christian, Fake, Church

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• Businesses will have to lead the charge - demanding uniform, national, predictable rules to govern this transition, so that there is a level and rational playing field on which they can compete to make the next fortunes.

  Van Jones

  Transition, Levels, Uniforms

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• 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

  Real, War, Party

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• 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

  Struggle, Mean, Long

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think movies in general should have more respect for the audience than they do. Too many films are afraid to confuse people, so all the information is given to them right away, and there's nothing left for the film to do. It ruins many stories, because everything becomes obvious and predictable. I want my films to engage people more and make them more actively involved in the story.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Thinking, Movies In General, Should Have

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• On the one hand, rock is so predictable, but at the same time, the basic idea that an artist can cut through everything and make something that they believe in or make something that they love or speaks to them personally, that it can cut through the bullshit. But at the same time, the cliches of sincerity can kill that.

  Casey Spooner

  Believe, Cutting, Artist

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Greg Saunier

  People, Greed, Chaos

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• One of our objectives today is very important for many people, for millions of people on our planet - it is joining efforts in the fight against terrorism and other similar challenges: countering drug trafficking and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, fighting famine, preserving environment and biodiversity, taking efforts to make the world more predictable, more stable.

  Vladimir Putin

  Fighting, Mass Destruction, People

  Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• I have often noticed that the two nuclear powers on the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan, attribute to Kashmiris an inferior intellect, a lineage, and a mystique that has allowed the dominant regime to manipulate the Kashmiri "Other" as a stereotypical and predictable entity.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Two, India And Pakistan, Lineage

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• Here we have perhaps in Mike Pence someone uniquely capable of explaining [Donald] Trump and being Trump and explaining for people who Trump is and what he is. And defending against whatever predictable insults and assaults on Trump that [Tim] Kaine comes up with.

  Donald Trump

  People, Insult, Assault

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• 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

  Would Be, Abnormal, Violence

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• Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, the Kennedys—there is always a pattern where a piece of information is destroyed, in which a witness is killed. It’s so predictable, you can go back and look up old cases.

  Mae Brussell

  Kings, Looks, Pieces

  Mae Brussell (2014). “The Essential Mae Brussell: Investigations of Fascism in America”, p.16, Feral House

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• The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it’s going to just get more unpredictable. If you thought financial crises came and went, just count on them – another economic collapse, it’s almost going to be like not news any more. But for startups this is great, because it’s a perpetual driver of disruption.

  Steve Jurvetson

  News, Financial, Lifetime

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• Whether sociology can ever become a full-fledged "science" (a description of a class of events predictable on the basis of deductions from a constant rationale) depends on whether the terms which sociologists employ to describe events can be analyzed into quantifiable observables.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Class, Events, Sociology

  "The bulletin of mathematical biophysics" by Anatol Rapoport, (p. 183), 1949.

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