Top 489 Predictable Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
As soon as things become predictable, they become boring.
Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental, and stale.
Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.
The immigrant blame game is one of the most predictable, and most deplorable, elements of public debate in our nation.
Remember that quitting is always an option, and it's the only one that guarantees a predictable result. Stay in the fight and everything is at risk. Quit and you know what will happen NOTHING!
The reason why principles are so important is because principles make life predictable.
Knowledge is organized data. For it to be shelved as human knowledge it's got to be predictable, repeatable, all the basics of scientific validation have to be there.
The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain.
You do scenes with certain people, all the time, and you know them so well. It's not that it can become predictable, but it's the same thing. So, when you have new people in the mix, it's so refreshing.
The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on - because the reader certainly will.
Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables are controlled and predictable.
I mostly get bored by comedies, action movies, science fiction movies - they are so predictable.
I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you can't catch it.
I vary from issue to issue and Im not party political at all. I think its important in comedy not to come from any set angle or it would be too predictable.
To be able to work for 20 years as an actor in an industry that is not so predictable, I'm grateful every day. I'll do it till I drop, I guess - or drop out.
Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
There are a lot of parallels between what we're doing and an expensive watch. It's very complex, has a lot of parts and it only has value when it's predictable and reliable.
At the risk of appearing predictable, the Bible was and remains the biggest influence on my thinking. I was raised reading it, memorizing passages from it and being guided by it. I still find it a source of wisdom, comfort and encouragement.
Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.
Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.
Even the alternative weekly newspapers, traditionally a bastion of progressive thought and analysis, have been bought by a monopoly franchise and made a predictable shift to the right in their coverage of local news.
Building trust is a process. Trust results from consistent and predictable interaction over time.
I don't like shows that are predictable. I like it when you're shocked and you have no idea who's about to die.
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love.
Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.
I do not want the things I do to be easy and predictable. I want them to be real.
We have such a finite amount of hours on this planet, and there is just no excuse for living a mundane, predictable life in life.
Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, the Kennedys—there is always a pattern where a piece of information is destroyed, in which a witness is killed. It’s so predictable, you can go back and look up old cases.
Am I worried? Sure, I'm worried. When it comes to the Olympics, it can't be a predictable finish.
A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.
I was offered a part in the stage version of 'Calendar Girls,' but the part is so predictable. It just makes me angry when I read the script.
In many ways, I'm incredibly lucky to have been born with my impairment and that it's visible. It means my path has been predictable.
I have always felt like romantic comedies are incredibly predictable. You look at the poster and you know those two are ending up together at the end of the movie.
Keep a strict, predictable schedule 365 days a year that has you eating, sleeping, and exercising at about the same times day in and day out.
Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?
Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.
I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their ordinariness, their beer and football-loving commitments.
The markets represent the aggregate interaction of many investors. Their attitudes, philosophies, and behavioral patterns on many levels are predictable... and repetitive.
Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.
I think it's crazy for us to play games with our children's future. We know what's happening to the climate, we have a highly predictable set of consequences if we continue to pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
My predictable stable routine completely changed once I retired. I went from a regimented and vigorous daily training program to a routine where every day was different.
It is predictable that God will take care of us. What's unpredictable is how he will do it.
Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.
Shane looked…pale. Pale and shaken and—how predictable was this?—pissed.
I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable.
In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are smarter—they plan ahead. They think about not getting caught.
The fact that a consistendy highly creative person is generally irresponsible in the sense that we have used this term is in part predictable from what is known about the freewheeling fantasies of very young children.
When audience expect only humorous roles from me, my roles will become cliche and predictable.
I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.
Sometimes we become attached to what's familiar, and sometimes we hold on to things that are safe and predictable, even if they are bad for us.
I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff.
I would use the debt limit. I don't want to say - I want to be unpredictable, because, you know, we need unpredictability. Everything is so predictable with our country.
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.
As for the best '80s action movie, I'm going to be predictable here and say 'Die Hard.' I watch that movie at least twice a year. Perfect script.
Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.
Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world.
