Quotes About Unpredictability

Human beings are like that, though. They'll do the most unbelievably cruel things when you least expect it.

deny the abuse, she may grow to fear his anger and his unpredictability. At the same time she may fear the loss of love and the security she believed she had in the relationship.

Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

Por desgracia, la vida casi nunca tiene un guión tan meticuloso.

No hay veleidad como la del viento o el capricho de una mujer.

No fickleness in flight like that of wind or women's fancy,

A book is a mysterious object, I said, and once it floats out into the world, anything can happen.

If it still shocks me to report what happened, that is because the real is always ahead of what we can imagine. No matter how wild we think our inventions might be, they can never match the unpredictability of what the real world continually spews forth. This lesson seems inescapable to me now. Anything can happen. And one way or another, it always does.

As the book progresses, it takes on a more and more unstable character — filled with unpredictable associations and departures, marked by increasingly rapid shifts in tone — until you reach a point where you feel the whole thing being to levitate, to rise ponderously off the ground like some gigantic weather balloon. By the last chapter, you've traveled so high up into the air, you realize that you can't come down again without falling, without being crushed.

Expect the unexpected, they say, but once the unexpected happens, the last thing you expect is that it will happen again.

a book is a mysterious object, i said, and once it floats out into the world, anything can happen. all kind of mischief can be caused, and there's not a damned thing you can do about it. for better or worse, it's completely out of control.

Your life is not good because it is easy or predictable, but because the I Am has invaded your existence by his grace.

Sometimes what you depend on is other people being even more wacked than you are.

History is the science of what never happens twice.

Although we usually fail to think of it in this way, the world around us today is just one of countless possible worlds. The millions of species of plants, animals, and insects we see around us are the expression of myriad interacting processes, including chance -- perhaps especially chance. At any point in its prehistory, a species might just easily have taken a different direction, given a slightly altered confluence of events, thus leaving today's world a slightly different place.

Things come that we never would have predicted for ourselves or even guessed at. And yet they change us for ever.

You know, we don't always understand what we're living inside of, or how it will matter. We can guess all we want and prepare, too, but we never know how it's going to turn out.

An unlikely event is likely to happen because there are so many unlikely events that could happen.

People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same.

In a way, sharks are like tornadoes. they touch down here, but not there. they wipe out this house but suddenly veer away and miss the house next door.

We want desperately to take uncertainty out of the future. But when we take uncertainty out, it is no longer the future. It is the present projected forward. Nothing new can come from the desire for a predictable tomorrow. The only way to make tomorrow predictable is to make it just like today. In fact, what distinguishes the future is its unpredictability and mystery.

Unfortunately, the world does not always act in a manner consistent with one's plans for it.