Unpredictable Quotes - Page 18

• Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational Life, Life Is Short, Dessert First

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• Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a God who loves to surprise us out of our socks.

  Max Lucado

  Hopeful, Wish, Favors

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.161, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• As a Buddhist, I view death as a normal process, a reality that I accept will occur as long as I remain in this earthly existence. Knowing that I cannot escape it, I see no point in worrying about it. I tend to think of death as being like changing your clothes when they are old and worn out, rather than as some final end. Yet death is unpredictable: We do not know when or how it will take place. So it is only sensible to take certain precautions before it actually happens.

  Dalai Lama

  Death, Buddhist, Reality

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• These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.

  Alice Sebold

  Lovely, Events, Connections

  The Lovely Bones ch. 23 (2002)

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• Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag. It's not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It's just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation...

  Marilyn Manson

  People, Buckets, Transformation

  "Marilyn Manson: Man That You Fear". Interview with Dan Epstein, www.revolvermag.com. March 1, 2012.

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• Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

  George S. Patton

  Change, Business, Past

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• Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

  Carl Rogers

  Health, Behavior, Neurotic

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• You know, tigers are very unpredictable.

  Suraj Sharma

  Knows, Tigers

  "Suraj Sharma, ‘Life Of Pi’ Star, Introduces Himself To The Rest Of The World". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2012.

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• In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin's Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed.

  Garry Kasparov

  Russia, Politics, Outcomes

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• Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world.

  Julian Gough

  Happiness, Hurt, Thinking

  Julian Gough (2001). “Juno and Juliet”

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• I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it. If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, "That's a flower.

  Sherman Alexie

  Children, Flower, Writing

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• My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Monkeys, Way, Machinery

  Dashiell Hammett (2010). “The Maltese Falcon”, p.95, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I know that relationships can be a winding, sometimes unpredictable road... it just seems to me that, if you ever find yourself backed into a corner, and the only way out is a box, that you have sex in, on stage, on live TV... something has gone terribly wrong.

  Matt Walsh

  Sex, Finding Yourself, Gone

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