Predictable Quotes

266 quotes by 238 authors

I have far more enthusiasm in life than I have actual energy. In my excitement, I routinely take on more that I can physically or… — Elizabeth Gilbert
[After my mother died, I had a feeling that was] not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few days when I… — Anna Quindlen
That's why people grow weary of listening to Dumpees obsess over their troubles: getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring. They want to stay friends;… — John Green
Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the readerâ€™s eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly,… — Ruth Ozeki
He let his mind wander. It went to a predictable place, and he missed her — John Green
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is… — Alan Lightman
Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest… — Margaret Atwood
Postponing happiness until "all your ducks are in order" means never because life is not that clean, fair or predictable. It isn't what happens to… — Laura Schlessinger
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. — Brian Tracy
We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any… — Stephen Jay Gould
The metaphysical doctrine of determinism simply asserts that all events in this world are fixed, or unalterable, or predetermined. It does not assert that they… — Karl Popper
You can be mediocre, the way most actors are, and you can still be a top movie star, even if your movies are boring and… — Mickey Rourke
I was too restless as a boy to sit through an entire mass. It was akin to aversion training. I looked at it like a… — Frans de Waal
While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people who had created… — Dan Gelber
Our culture encourages women to nurture men, making it predictable that many experience a seductive empathy for abusive men, as well as the misguided hope… — Leslie Morgan Steiner
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… — Alex Steffen
Socialism is the gradual and less violent form of communism, and socialist is the project of the European Union, which was born in Maastricht in… — Vladimir Bukovsky
Renewable energy has economic advantages that extend beyond steady, predictable electric rates - and Maine is in a good position to capitalize on those opportunities. — Chellie Pingree
The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a… — Marc Andreesen
It was remarkable to see from space how predictable people are. Our homes and towns are almost all in places with moderate temperatures, and they… — Chris Hadfield

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