Predictable Quotes
266 quotes by 238 authors
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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
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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…
— Loretta Chase
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The predictable thing about 'The Good Wife' is how unpredictable 'The Good Wife' is.
— Archie Panjabi
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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
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Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.
— Gay Hendricks
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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…
— Suzy Kassem
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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
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I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.
— Sheridan Smith
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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,…
— Martin Amis
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Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.
— Joan Didion
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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
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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
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Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality.
— Ori Hofmekler
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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As soon as things become predictable, they become boring.
— Hunter Parrish
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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
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