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Quotes About Unpredictability

Fate is a fickle bitch who dotes on irony." The Black Company pg 447
~ Glen Cook
Summer weather along the Pacific is governed by a kind of strange roulette wheel, one that makes anyone with concrete plans on the all-but-certain losing end of things. Not until the moment one ventures outside to experience the world of nature is it apparent if it is sunny or rainy or a mix of both. Its unpredictability is the only sure thing.
~ Gregg Olsen
catch me with an unexpected result
~ Gregory Benford
You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless.
~ David Gower
I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.
~ Dave Chappelle
I don't have a game plan. I never did, and it's too late to have one even if I wanted to.
~ Diane Lane
The real universe is nothing like that. It's more like an annoying child who likes to approach people and say, "I know what's going to happen to you next!" Then, when you ask what will happen, the child says, "I can't tell you." And after it happens, they say, "See? I knew that was going to happen!" That's the universe for you.
~ Sean Carroll
Life is short, and certainty never happens.
~ Sean Carroll
We see them come. We see them go. Some are fast. And some are slow. Some are high. And some are slow. Not one of them is like another. Don't ask us why. Go ask your mother.
~ Sean Covey
In those strange days when if anything unexpected could happen it probably would.
~ Sebastian Barry
Love is like the weather in Nevada--you don't know what the freak happens!
~ Selina
The only certainty is that we shall never be certain.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
I can type with me toes Suck stout through me nose And where it's gonna end God only knows
~ Shane MacGowan
I had no schedule, no plan for today or the next, or the week after. Everything in my life just seemed to kind of roll together, collect speed and go thundering downhill.
~ Shannon Olson
Last time I was watching her, I left her in her crib and when I came back, she was a puppy. Just for a couple of hours, then she was herself again.' I mean, I almost couldn't speak. I said, 'Did it occur to you to tell me this?' And she said, 'Well, I thought it might be a one-time thing. I didn't want to worry you.
~ Sharon Shinn
Well, that's the lesson, I suppose," Zoe said. "We can never predict who will love us or where we'll feel love in return.
~ Sharon Shinn
I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.
~ Shelby Foote
I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time.
~ Greta Scacchi
Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
~ Harold Taylor
Lo esperado no sucede. Es lo inesperado lo que acontece.
~ Ernesto Sabato
Sometimes there are no rules.
~ Mary Oliver
People are messy, unpredictable things.
~ Mary Roach
Seriously hairy shit was going down on a regular basis.
~ Mary Roach
Like pretty much every cat I've ever met, Jeter swings back and forth between loving me and trying to murder me, so I never know exactly what I'm getting.
~ Matthew Norman