Unpredictable Quotes - Page 4

• Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.

  Livy

  Feelings, Crowds, Uncertain

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• Success is unpredictable and fragile.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Fragile

  Interview with Alain Elkann, alainelkanninterviews.com. October 8, 2014.

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• A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Dharma, Persons

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.

  Anne Rice

  Strong, Truth Is, Weak

  Anne Rice (2003). “The vampire Lestat”

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• Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the laws of quantum mechanics. It appears that mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent inherent in every atom. The universe is also weird, with its laws of nature that make it hospitable to the growth of mind. I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it passes beyond the scale of our comprehension.

  Freeman Dyson

  Law, Choices, Mind

  "Progress In Religion". Freeman Dyson's Acceptance Speech for the Templeton Prize at the Washington National Cathedral, www.edge.org. May 16, 2000.

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• Life for the unwell is discontinuous and unpredictable. Things just come out of nowhere. People try but mostly do a lousy job of taking care of you.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Jobs, Unpredictable Things, People

  Mark Vonnegut, M.D. (2010). “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir”, p.7, Delacorte Press

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• It's always very important to me to try to create a story that feels unpredictable. You can't jump ahead and see what's coming, but at the end, when you've watched the whole thing, it all feels inevitable.

  Noah Hawley

  Important, Trying, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.

  Ted Dekker

  Mirrors, Dangerous World, Issues

  Interview with Dick Donahue, www.publishersweekly.com. April 20, 2009.

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• I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.

  George R. R. Martin

  Interviews, Suspense, Fiction

  "'Game of Thrones' author George R.R. Martin: Why he wrote The Red Wedding". Interview with James Hibberd, ew.com. June 2, 2013.

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• 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

  Running, Two, Savages

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

  Joyce Meyer

  Father, Mean, Unstable

  "My Story - From a Life of Pain and Fear to Healing and Freedom in Christ" by Joyce Meyer, www.christianpost.com. January 5, 2013.

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• My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not.

  Joyce Meyer

  Father, Home, Mean

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• No treaty, however much it may be to the advantage of all, however tightly it may be worded, can provide absolute security against the risks of deception and evasion. But it can, if it is sufficiently effective in its enforcement and if it is sufficiently in the interests of its signers, offer far more security and far fewer risks than an unabated, uncontrolled, unpredictable arms race.

  John F. Kennedy

  Race, Risk, Deception

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Responsibility, Justice, Evolve

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• All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Crazy, People, Actors

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• I know I'm incredibly unpredictable, and that's the only thing I'm sure of.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Knows

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• Make no mistake about it, you are dumb. You’re a group of incredibly well-educated dumb people. I was there. We all were there. You’re barely functional. 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 the screw-ups, they’re a-coming for ya. It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Graduation, Mistake, Memorable

  Aaron Sorkin's Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.

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• 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

  Tomorrow, Ends, Happens

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.128, Modern Library

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• Both history and contemporary data show that countries prosper more when there are stable and dependable rules, under which people can make investments without having to fear unpredictable new government interventions before these investments can pay off.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Government, Data

  "An Economic 'Plan'?". www.creators.com. September 09, 2012.

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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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• Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive and unpredictable.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Beautiful, Female, Ships

  "I Will Fear No Evil" by Robert A. Heinlein, Ace Books, (p. 452), 1987.

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• Parental love is not contingent on the talents and attributes the child happens to have. We choose our friends and spouses at least partly on the basis of qualities we find attractive. But we do not choose our children. Their qualities are unpredictable, and even the most conscientious parents cannot be held wholly responsible for the kind of child they have. That is why parenthood, more than other human relationships, teaches what the theologian William F. May calls an “openness to the unbidden.

  Michael Sandel

  Children, Love Is, Parent

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• History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full stop a comma in embryo. But more: like thought, like water, history is fluid, unpredictable, dangerous. It leaps and surges and doubles back, cuts unpredictable channels, surfaces suddenly in places no one would expect.

  Mark Slouka

  Running, Cutting, Water

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• For the first time in history, we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real-time... Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.

  Margaret Chan

  Real, Track, Pandemics

  "Influenza A(H1N1)". www.who.int. April 29, 2009.

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• Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not necessarily based upon contrivances.

  Stanley Crouch

  Way, Mysterious, Another Way

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