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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable.
You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know.
One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.
Few things in this world are more predictable than the reaction of conventional minds to unconventional ideas.
Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.
Vision encompasses vast vistas outside the realm of the predictable, the safe, the expected.
I have promised on many occasions that I will build a consistent, predictable and sustainable cross-strait relationship.
I enjoy it when characters love each other. It's more interesting, actually - it's less predictable.
Don't settle for comfortable misery, a sad state where you're hanging on to what is most predictable and familiar at the risk of letting exciting opportunities pass you by.
The United States needs an energy policy that ensures America's tax, trade, regulatory and access policies are transparent and predictable.
Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.
Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable.
I think all good narration contains an element of mystery and suspense. If it didn't, if the storyline were predictable, we would have no interest in reading it.
If New Hampshire is going to be serious about optimizing our energy system, we must have a siting process that is fair, predictable, and communicative.
No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something interesting going on with my skin.
I basically like the unpredictability factor. When I watch a film, if it becomes predictable, I lose interest in it.
Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable.
Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map to self discovery.
Renewable energy has economic advantages that extend beyond steady, predictable electric rates - and Maine is in a good position to capitalize on those opportunities.
Running became boring because it's so predictable. I got to a point where I knew what my competition could do.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.
A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.
I can tell you, going out to buy toilet paper in the U.S. is a completely predictable experience.
I'm conservative, and people know where I stand. They can trust me to do what I say I'm going to do. I'm predictable.
Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?
I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.
Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.
The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed
Beginning players are predictable and rarely bluff. They tend to focus only on their own hand and simply hope to catch the one card they need to improve.
I just don't know how to stitch words in a predictable way sometimes. It's a weird instinct I've developed.
The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.
I can guarantee people, then, that if they learn, discover, understand, explore, and apply the same principles that I learned, that success is predictable.
People are going to have to make themselves predictable, or the machines will get angry and kill them.
It's perfectly O.K. to not be completely predictable. I am a person, and I have individual opinions that may not line up ideologically.
I've always been kind of a play-by-the-rules girl; I tend to like things structured, predictable, and sometimes even a little boring.
If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.
A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world.
Some comedians make a marvellous living doing material that is completely predictable, that reminds people of things that they already know or jokes that they are already familiar with.
Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.
One of the most depressing things about President Donald Trump's decision to roll back elements of the Cuba opening is how predictable it was.
Perhaps one day earthquakes, hurricanes and financial crashes will all be predictable. But we don't have to wait until then for seismology, meteorology and economics to become sciences; they already are.
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 or fashionable theories.
When something happens people didn't predict, they find ways to explain it as if it were predictable.
I like shows that are surprising and not predictable. That have deep, rich characters that are fully formed.
I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.
I love being the bad guy, simply because I was always so responsible, so predictable growing up.
At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.
I have nothing wrong with comics and writers poking fun at the President, as long as it's funny. When it's the same retread jokes with predictable punchlines, that's when it's offensive.
Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
What most people call "chaos" is actually incredibly predictable and maddeningly boring - greed, close-mindedness, warring over power.
I watch so many movies and I find a lot of them very predictable, and also, a little bit playing it safe.
I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.
I do enjoy intense, bloodthirsty action, but I like to blend and cross genres. I don't want to be too predictable.
There's something about a sign-off that seems predictable. I just say whatever comes to my mind, to the pleasure and horror of the control room, I'm sure.
With children, I feel so safe in my predictable world. They will never leave me.
Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don't become too predictable.
I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.
Some people like very predictable melodies, and others prefer the less likely notes.
Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It’s less predictable, it’s more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee.
