Unpredictable Quotes

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable. (George S. Patton)
The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable. View quote
Anne Rice
At its best, life is completely unpredictable. View quote
Christopher Walken
The social sciences are usually concerned with groups of persons rather than individual persons. The behavior of individuals, being free, is unpredictable. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable. View quote
Billy Sheehan
It's all about exploring the more unpredictable aspects in the character, not just fighting people. View quote
Victoria Pratt
Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive-and unpredictable. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable. View quote
Michael Shermer
The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market. View quote
George Soros
Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent unpredictable since they are not optimal machines. We cannot know their future with certainty, if only because a myriad of quirky functional shifts lie within the capacity of any feature, however well adapted to a present role. (Stephen Jay Gould)
Evolving life must experience a vast range of possibilities, based on environmental histories so unpredictable that no realized route - the pathway to consciousness in the form of Homo sapiens or Little Green Men, for example - can be construed as a highway to heaven, but must be viewed as a tortuous track rutted with uncountable obstacles and festooned with innumerable alternative branches. Any reasonably precise repetition of our earthly route on another planet therefore becomes wildly improbable even in a trillion cases. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
In our struggle to understand the history of life, we must learn where to place the boundary between contingent and unpredictable events that occur but once and the more repeatable, lawlike phenomenon that may pervade life's history as generalities. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Strong women are absolutely unpredictable. View quote
Anne Rice
Of all the weapons in the Federal Reserve arsenal, words were the the most unpredictable in their consequences. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will. View quote
Antonin Artaud
The person I enjoyed interviewing the most was Elmo from Sesame Street because he is so unpredictable and he is always eating my hair and my face. View quote
Katie Couric
The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
As a philosophical problem, it comes down to a better way to engage with the passage of time; and I think we're getting close to one, because the imaginative loss of the future is becoming acute. The most effective political actors on the planet now are people who want to blow themselves up. These are people who really don't want to get out of the bed in the morning and face another unpredictable day. View quote
Bruce Sterling
It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. View quote
Gregory Bateson
It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance of their effects. All the more unpredictable and surprising to us will be the course of future events. (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past. View quote
Isaac Asimov
I think you've got to be a little bit unpredictable in life or you are not sexy. View quote
Jim Carrey
The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable. View quote
Neil Postman
I drew because words were too unpredictable. View quote
Sherman Alexie