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Quotes About Unpredictability

To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.
~ William Faulkner
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.
~ Herman Melville
It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.
~ John Buchan
As Freud noted: "A thing which has not been understood inevitably reappears; like an unlaid ghost, it cannot rest until the mystery has been resolved and the spell broken." . . . in ambivalent attachment, a mother vacillates inexplicably from being loving and tender to angry and threatening.. Faced with this unpredictable inconsistency, a child tries to appease the mother, anxious to control and monitor her shifting moods.
~ Terri Apter
There's that unpredictability factor, that chance that something completely unexpected - something amazing - could happen. That's what makes life an adventure. Sometimes you just have to jump in and trust the universe.
~ Tess Gerritsen
To be predictable is to become the hunted.
~ Théun Mares
Very few battles are ever fought exactly as planned.
~ Theodore Taylor
Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike.
~ Thomas C. Foster
To the wisest of them, what we must call the wisest, man is properly an Accident under the sky.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I'll probably never stop improvising.
~ Matt Besser
Wrestling is a never-ending storybook, so sometimes you start going one direction, but the beauty of it is we could go in whatever direction we want, but things just changed.
~ Xavier Woods
Every game is a new game, and anything can happen.
~ Georginio Wijnaldum
News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.
~ Jessica Savitch
Me being able to move around, nickel, dime, safety, you don't know where I'm coming from or if I'm coming, and that's a positive.
~ Charles Woodson
A lot of guys come out, and they do the exact same thing, are in the exact same mood, and have the exact same entrance every night, I really just make up a lot of crap as I go along.
~ Dean Ambrose
Well, every nights gonna be different. I dont even know what were going to play the next two nights. But thats the exciting part of it.
~ Mike Campbell
Luckily, filmmaking is not a nine-to-five job.
~ Farah Khan
What makes Johnny Depp so brilliant is you truly have no idea what kind of character he's going to play next.
~ Alexa Vega
This script was like a dish made from things you'd found in your larder and had to use up before they went off: a Welsh mountain, a casino, a blonde with a big bust.
~ Nick Hornby
When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn't control what came through it.
~ Nicole Krauss
I always secretly looked forward to nothing going as planned. That way, I wasn't limited by my imagination. That way, anything can, and always did, happen.
~ Nigel Davis
If you know exactly what's going to happen tomorrow, the voltage of that experience is immediately mitigated.
~ Chuck Klosterman
You met me at a very strange time in my life.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.
~ Chuck Palahniuk