Quotes About Unpredictability

There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existance is paid for in some way, except for that one moment, witch is free.

We cannot foresee when a bolt from the blue will put an end to the best-laid plans of mice and men.

Talking with this girl is like trying to catch fleas, you never know which way she was going to jump.

Evet, hep tesadüf... Onun s?rt?na giyece?i yoktu ve mal sahibi seksen kat üst üste giyebilirdi. Bu tesadüftü... Fakat, e?er mal sahibi bunlara ayda yirmi?er lira fazla verse, -bunu yapmak onu hiç de sarsmazd?- o zaman bunlar?n da birer kat, iki?er kat elbiseleri, çama??rlar? olur ve -tesadüf- böyle olmazd?... Tesadüfün bu kadar kolay de?i?ebilece?i hiç de akl?na gelmemi?ti.

Until that moment, he hadn't been sure he would prevail. Any woman brave enough to thrust a blade at him was unpredictable at best, and dangerous at worst.

Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.

The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.

And still, what a risk he'd taken. The woman was like an amateur car bomb: you never knew when she would explode or who she would take down with her when she did.

Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing. Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous.

I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.

Everything fails, all the time.

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.

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

La verità è che molte donne sono deboli, mortali o immortali che siano. Ma quando sono forti, sono assolutamente imprevedibili

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. - Jeanette Rankin

They're so attached to their patterns that they've forgotten rule number one of human behavior: there are no patterns. People just do things. There's no such things as a coherent and fully integrated human personality, let alone consistent motivation.

Computers certainly possess the ability to reason and the capacity for self-reference. And just because they do, their actions are intrinsically inscrutable. Consequently, as they become more powerful and perform a more varied set of tasks, computers exhibit an unpredictability approaching that of human beings. Indeed, by Averroës's standards, they possess the same degree of immortality as humans.

The Welsh do make the worst enemies. They do not play by your rules, they win when they're not supposed to, and they do not know when they're beaten.

I drew because words were too unpredictable.

Dear friends, I am often a lonely man, Even in a room full of people who love me. Dear friends, my brain-- Unpredictable as it was--is even more unpredictable now. But thank God for all of the ways in which we compensate. For our deficiencies.

I didn't even know he knew any mellow shit. Dear gods…is he ill? (Urian) I don't know. In nine thousand years, I've never seen him like this before. (Alexion) I'm beginning to get scared. This has to be a sign of the Apocalypse. If he breaks out into Air Supply, I say we sneak up on him, drag him outside and beat the holy shit out of him. (Urian)

This has been one seriously fucked-up day, huh? (Wren) You might say that. This morning it was 2005 in New Orleans, I was staring at you wondering what it would be like to have the ability to change into a tiger. Now it's the day before I enter the world in 1981 and I can turn into a tiger. Yeah, just your average day...if you're in a Ted Raimi production. (Maggie)

Ha, but my life is a box of wormgears.

Life as the chosen religious figure for a colony of cryptid mice can be a lot of things, but it's definitely never boring.