Quotes About Unpredictability

No one can predict who is going to touch your heart in a way that changes your very being.

Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.

Old Japanese saying, live scorpion in pants makes life interesting.

This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.

What I like is a life that is full of surprises and [that has] no routine.

Like having a great idea, life comes at you fast. It hits you and tries to escape and be expressed in any way possible. In a way, it's a lot like...lightning.

Because life doesn't always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can't be scheduled.

b. We alternate choosing places to go, but we also have to be willing to go where the road takes us. This means the grand, the small, the bizarre, the poetic, the beautiful, the ugly, the surprising. Just like life. But absolutely, unconditionally, resolutely nothing ordinary.

Love can go away, or people can, without even meaning to. Nothing is guaranteed.

Life doesn't have to be so planned.

I suppose in matters of the heart, there's no predicting how a person will or won't behave.

Borderline rage is often terrifying in its unpredictability and intensity. It may be sparked by relatively insignificant events and explode without warning. It may be directed at previously valued people. The threat of violence frequently accompanies this anger. All of these features make borderline rage much different from typical anger. In

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

Having a two-year-old is like having a blender that you don't have the top for.

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.

So this is insanity. How interesting. What happens next?

a butterfly in a West African rain forest, by flitting to the left of a tree rather than to the right, possibly set into motion a chain of events that escalates into a hurricane striking coastal South Carolina a few weeks later?

It is not given to human beings—happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable—to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.—WINSTON CHURCHILL, EULOGY FOR NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, NOVEMBER 12, 1940

No plan survives contact with the enemy

The human heart is an abyss that is impossible to predict; the most piercing looks cannot gauge it.'41

Does that mean that you shouldn't plan? Not at all. You need to plan the way a fire department plans. It cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.