Quotes About Unpredictability

At this point, a spaceship could land on Main Street and Elvis could saunter out singing "Love Me Tender," and I wouldn't be surprised

These unusual times were quickly making for unusual arrangements.

But the closer we become, the more the relationship will be challenged. Like a river overflowing its banks and moving in new directions, people are unpredictable. When someone we know goes against our expectations, we're uncomfortable and we want to move things back to our set point.

When swept out of its normal channel, life scatters into innumerable streams. It is difficult to foresee which it will take in its treacherous and winding course. Where today it flows in shallows like a rivulet over sandbanks, so shallow that the shoals are visible, tomorrow it will flow richly and fully.

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

Life is so balanced, even when we are not.

Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off.

People are the masterpieces of randomness.

Since charity falls into the category of expectations, it can't be relied upon and it's something that's out of our control.

Today you will say things you can predict and other things you could never imagine this minute. Don't reject them, let them come through when they're ready, don't think you can plan it al out. This day will never, no matter how long you live, happen again. It is exquisitely singular. It will never again be exactly repeated.

Remember that you are a Black Swan.

The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. —NDT

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

A prince may be seen happy today and ruined tomorrow without having shown any chance in his character. For the prince who relies entirely on fortune is lost when it changes...

?uvajte se divnih dana. Loše stvari se dešavaju baš u tim divnim danima. Možda je to zbog ?injenice da uvek kada ste sre?ni postajete nesre?ni. ?uvajte se zacrtanih planova. Vaša pažnja je usresre?ena na plan, i to je trenutak kada stvari po?inju da se dešavaju van vašeg vidokruga.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Wyrd never flowed along expected paths.

The lake sometimes has a mind of its own; there's no telling how it might treat you.

Man's freedom does not free him from necessity. But twists it into unforeseeable consequences.

The signature of chaos is the fractal attractor-fractals are the patterns of chaos

Period-doubling is a general principle of nature.

Not all books of same size, weight, length, thickness have same number of pages.

Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand,not the least thing,everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be forseen.

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up