Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak. — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
He let his mind wander. It went to a predictable place, and he missed her — John Green Copy Share Image
The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive." — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
Trust is established by working around horses in an utterly predictable manner. — Monty Roberts Copy Share Image
I think the company's [HP's] success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When something happens people didn't predict, they find ways to explain it as if it were predictable. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Every forward ends up behind, every back shortcuts to some labyrinth; time as predictable as a crossword set by a sadist.” — Tola Lone Copy Share Image
Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower. — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Postponing happiness until "all your ducks are in order" means never because life is not that clean, fair or predictable. It isn't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go… — Fede Alvarez Copy Share Image
You can concede to an opponent something he hasn't earned. It's one thing to underestimate an opponent. But maybe the worst thing… — Chuck Knox Copy Share Image
Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove will verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The actor has to have some degree of craft, along with the talent. No one tries to laugh except bad actors. No… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
The exciting part for me, as a pilot, was the landing on the moon. That was the time that we had achieved… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Since we live in a world of appearances, people are judged by what they seem to be. If the mind can't read… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
If old consumers were assumed to be passive, then new consumers are active. If old consumers were predictable and stayed where you… — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, activists, and other… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Life had a way of wrecking her careful plans, again and again. Roulette was more predictable than life. Small wonder she was… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
“Time stretched before her in an endless, predictable path of banal routines—” — Elise Hooper Copy Share Image
If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It is predictable that God will take care of us. What's unpredictable is how he will do it. — Donna VanLiere Copy Share Image
Shane looked…pale. Pale and shaken and—how predictable was this?—pissed. — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“Time limits tend to turn everything predictable and mundane into a novelty.” — Rhian J. Martin Copy Share Image
I'm not going to force the takedown and make myself look predictable. — Curtis Blaydes Copy Share Image