Unpredictable Quotes - Page 4

• Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.

  Livy

  Feelings, Crowds, Uncertain

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• A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Dharma, Persons

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Success is unpredictable and fragile.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Fragile

  Interview with Alain Elkann, alainelkanninterviews.com. October 8, 2014.

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• The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.

  Anne Rice

  Strong, Truth Is, Weak

  Anne Rice (2003). “The vampire Lestat”

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• Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the laws of quantum mechanics. It appears that mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent inherent in every atom. The universe is also weird, with its laws of nature that make it hospitable to the growth of mind. I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it passes beyond the scale of our comprehension.

  Freeman Dyson

  Law, Choices, Mind

  "Progress In Religion". Freeman Dyson's Acceptance Speech for the Templeton Prize at the Washington National Cathedral, www.edge.org. May 16, 2000.

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• Life for the unwell is discontinuous and unpredictable. Things just come out of nowhere. People try but mostly do a lousy job of taking care of you.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Jobs, Unpredictable Things, People

  Mark Vonnegut, M.D. (2010). “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir”, p.7, Delacorte Press

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• I enjoyed being president, but the campaign against Guinea worm [horrible disease] has opened up a completely new career that is challenging and unpredictable and adventurous - and very gratifying.

  Jimmy Carter

  Careers, Challenges, President

  "Jimmy Carter on Eradicating the Guinea Worm 'This Horrible, Obnoxious Disease'". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. December 17, 2010.

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• 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.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Struggle, Events, May

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms”, p.402, Harvard University Press

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• At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .

  Isaac Asimov

  Past, Odd, Fright

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.10, Spectra

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• I like to play unpredictable characters, and I like to be unpredictable in what movie I'll do. I want to skip to work. I don't want to repeat anything. What the future holds, I don't know, but that's what I like. I'll take any risk there is.

  Jeremy Renner

  Character, Play, Risk

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Bruce Sterling

  Morning, Philosophical, Loss

  "The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole". Talk at Long Now Foundation, 2004.

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• We must act now and wake up to our moral obligations. The poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are the most severely affected by droughts, high temperatures, the flooding of coastal cities, and more severe and unpredictable weather events resulting from climate change. We, who should have been responsible stewards preserving our vulnerable, fragile planet home, have been wantonly wasteful through our reckless consumerism, devouring irreplaceable natural resources.

  Desmond Tutu

  Home, Should Have, Cities

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• I have hour spurts when I feel fine and I can walk normal and stuff, other hours, I'm wobbling. I feel like there's somebody behind me kicking my legs out from underneath me. The whole tumor symptom thing is crazy. It's unpredictable. It really messes with your life.

  Lauryn Hill

  Life, Crazy, Kicking

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• In an enterprise such as the building of the atomic bomb the difference between ideas, hopes, suggestions and theoretical calculations, and solid numbers based on measurement, is paramount. All the committees, the politicking and the plans would have come to naught if a few unpredictable nuclear cross sections had been different from what they are by a factor of two.

  Emilio G. Segre

  Ideas, Two, Differences

  Epigraph by Emilio G. Segre in Richard Rhodes' book "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" (p. 8), 1986.

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• Harnessing adversity is a discipline tailored to a world of unpredictable outcomes--a world where one can disturb, but not wholly direct, a living system. Because the unexpected--adversity--is guaranteed, this discipline is about routinely making lemons into lemon meringue pie.

  Richard Pascale

  Adversity, Pie, Discipline

  Richard Pascale, Mark Milleman, Linda Gioja (2001). “Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business”, p.276, Crown Business

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• No treaty, however much it may be to the advantage of all, however tightly it may be worded, can provide absolute security against the risks of deception and evasion. But it can, if it is sufficiently effective in its enforcement and if it is sufficiently in the interests of its signers, offer far more security and far fewer risks than an unabated, uncontrolled, unpredictable arms race.

  John F. Kennedy

  Race, Risk, Deception

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• Parental love is not contingent on the talents and attributes the child happens to have. We choose our friends and spouses at least partly on the basis of qualities we find attractive. But we do not choose our children. Their qualities are unpredictable, and even the most conscientious parents cannot be held wholly responsible for the kind of child they have. That is why parenthood, more than other human relationships, teaches what the theologian William F. May calls an “openness to the unbidden.

  Michael Sandel

  Children, Love Is, Parent

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• I'm not an expert in the deck at all. My interest lies somewhere near a sense that words are like tarot cards, and that a poem manipulates unpredictable depths with its words. . . . I like the tarot because it works like poetry and because you don't really have to 'believe in' anything. It's there to be used. The symbols are remarkably durable and beautiful; they float out to encompass all kinds of meanings.

  Alice Notley

  Beautiful, Lying, Believe

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• Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not necessarily based upon contrivances.

  Stanley Crouch

  Way, Mysterious, Another Way

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• Y'know, Nature's unpredictable -- that's why we had to tame her. Maybe we went too far, but in principle we made the right decision.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Nature, Decision, Principles

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• For the first time in history, we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real-time... Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.

  Margaret Chan

  Real, Track, Pandemics

  "Influenza A(H1N1)". www.who.int. April 29, 2009.

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• The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.

  Neil Postman

  Technology, Inevitable, Effects

  Neil Postman (2011). “The Disappearance of Childhood”, p.24, Vintage

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• The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.

  Rudy Rucker

  Heart, Mind, Humans

  "Turing & Burroughs". Book by Rudy Rucker, www.rudyrucker.com. 2012.

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• A preschool child does not emerge from your toddler on a given date or birthday. He becomes a child when he ceases to be a wayward, confusing, unpredictable and often balky person-in-the- making, and becomes a comparatively cooperative, eager-and-easy-to-please real human being--at least 60 per cent of the time.

  Penelope Leach

  Children, Real, Confusing

  Penelope Leach (1989). “Your baby & child: from birth to age five”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• It's always very important to me to try to create a story that feels unpredictable. You can't jump ahead and see what's coming, but at the end, when you've watched the whole thing, it all feels inevitable.

  Noah Hawley

  Important, Trying, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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