Predictable Quotes

266 quotes by 238 authors

Set aside predictable, regular times to give full attention without being distracted by other concerns while also creating a safe, familiar place for baby to… — Magda Gerber
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… — Loretta Chase
The predictable thing about 'The Good Wife' is how unpredictable 'The Good Wife' is. — Archie Panjabi
I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's… — Emily Mortimer
Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end. — Gay Hendricks
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… — Suzy Kassem
Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable. — Sheridan Smith
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,… — Martin Amis
Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored. — Joan Didion
Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater… — Stephen Jay Gould
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest… — Elizabeth Moon
Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality. — Ori Hofmekler
People ask my mother whether she had any idea that I'd be CEO of a company some day, and she would say, 'Absolutely not. Totally… — Anne M. Mulcahy
Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more… — Antonio Damasio
To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man… — Eric Hoffer
The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first look back upon the past. That is… — Albert Einstein
Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved… — Celia Green
As soon as things become predictable, they become boring. — Hunter Parrish
The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain… — George Saunders

Who Wrote These Predictable Quotes

238 authors contributed a total of 266 Predictable Quotes, led by these top contributors: