Top 130 Predictable Quotes

When they have the lead, you don’t want to fall into too predictable counts because they’re playing with house money at that point. You want to try to be creative and keep them off-balance as much as you can.

The relatively unpredictable flow of funds to humanitarian organizations, and the bureaucratic strings often attached to them, can have a highly negative impact on an organization’s ability to plan and execute programmes effectively. We need to be able to rely on predictable income flows to plan sustainable programmes.

Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I’m looking for something different. A lot of chefs’ cookbooks are food as it’s done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.

I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff.

Our culture encourages women to nurture men, making it predictable that many experience a seductive empathy for abusive men, as well as the misguided hope that love can obliterate an ugly past.

I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It’s a bit, I don’t know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There’s something too weirdly predictable about it.

I remember, as a kid, thinking more about, you know, watching the world go by and being amazed by how both complex but consistent and elegant it was. You know, why, you know, when you put that cold glass of water on the table, it kind of warms up at a very predictable way.

You have to be careful so you don’t make your character dull and predictable. Sometimes you have to bend the script a little… The bad guys are mostly the same on the paper… A bad guy wouldn’t think of himself as bad.

Ab-Souls Outro’ serves as a jazzy, spoken summation of ‘Section.80’s themes. Guest cohort Ab-Soul opens the song with one urgent verse after another: Flowing freely like the saxophone behind him, his words advocate veering outside life’s most predictable pathways.

The immigrant blame game is one of the most predictable, and most deplorable, elements of public debate in our nation.

If New Hampshire is going to be serious about optimizing our energy system, we must have a siting process that is fair, predictable, and communicative.

There’s something about a sign-off that seems predictable. I just say whatever comes to my mind, to the pleasure and horror of the control room, I’m sure.

Back in my school days, when I would scuttle off with a cheese roll, an apple, a box of Sun-Maid raisins and a Penguin bar, my packed lunches were reassuringly predictable. And I liked it that way.

One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don’t think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.

There’s nothing obvious or predictable in acting. That’s what it means to be in this profession.

The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on – because the reader certainly will.

One mistake, your winning streak is over and you’ve got to start over again. But you have to be optimistic in life, and I find that it’s also beautiful, because if things are too predictable, that sucks, too, right?

Science affects all our ways of thinking about the world: both the physical world, which, if I may make so bold, is easy to understand because it is regular and follows simple laws, and also the social world, which is more baffling and less predictable.

In our view, the main role of the government in the green transition is to ensure a predictable framework and a level playing field for innovation, industry, and enterprise. And, most importantly, to provide clear direction.

As for the best ’80s action movie, I’m going to be predictable here and say ‘Die Hard.’ I watch that movie at least twice a year. Perfect script.

I got a bike – a fixed-gear with bright blue wheels, custom-made to my specifications. I am a San Francisco techno-hipster, so this selection was a bit of a self-caricature. But sometimes the predictable thing turns out to be the best thing, too, and you can’t let that stop you.

I’ve always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.

One of the things I love, and I’m a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.

Running became boring because it’s so predictable. I got to a point where I knew what my competition could do.

Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn’t intend for it to be a predictable film.

The United States needs an energy policy that ensures America’s tax, trade, regulatory and access policies are transparent and predictable.

Be willing to step outside your comfort zone once in a while; take the risks in life that seem worth taking. The ride might not be as predictable if you’d just planted your feet and stayed put, but it will be a heck of a lot more interesting.

The reason why Whitehall is full of people failing in predictable ways on an hourly basis is because, first, there is general system-wide failure and, second, everybody keeps their heads down focused on the particular and they ignore the system.

Personally, I always try to focus on the little things in my game. As a defender and attacking outside back, I continuously work on completing passes, not being too predictable going forward into the attack, good services into the box, good positioning and footwork.

Many progressives understand Scalia, and other conservative judges, in crassly political terms – as opponents of affirmative action, abortion, gun control, and campaign finance legislation. But what Scalia cared most about was clear, predictable rules, laid down in advance.

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one’s own unnecessary vegetation.

To be able to work for 20 years as an actor in an industry that is not so predictable, I’m grateful every day. I’ll do it till I drop, I guess – or drop out.

I’m learning that human pressure on wildlife is becoming increasingly dangerous. You’ve got to be more alert because more animals have been pushed around, wounded, subjected to human harassment, ambushed, all kinds of stress. When they attack, it’s totally predictable.

The American people are smart. They’ve gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.

I am so sick and tired of participating in this predictable cycle of politics, where a mass shooting happens, the left calls for new gun laws – some meaningful, some unproductive – the right yells ‘slippery slope’ and hides behind the Constitution.

You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that’s going to be easy, you know.

The universal human laws – need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain – are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.

I look for something that can challenge me or makes me ever so slightly afraid – fearful of how I am going to approach it – then I’ll go for it. If the project appears linear or predictable, then I’ll usually give it a miss. Anything that involves me being stretched as an actor, I go for.

Even the alternative weekly newspapers, traditionally a bastion of progressive thought and analysis, have been bought by a monopoly franchise and made a predictable shift to the right in their coverage of local news.

Beginning players are predictable and rarely bluff. They tend to focus only on their own hand and simply hope to catch the one card they need to improve.

We are giving the citizens of Poland a sense that a reasonable and predictable government is ruling here.

In my first book, ‘Ghosts Of Manhattan,’ the setting was Wall Street, and I explored the predictable nature of a bond trader inside the compensation scheme at Bear Stearns and the government regulations of Wall Street. That was about money.

Renewable energy has economic advantages that extend beyond steady, predictable electric rates – and Maine is in a good position to capitalize on those opportunities.

I never want anything to be too predictable.

The element of surprise is the most important thing and what keeps me interested in writing. I can feel it if I’ve written that predictable or boring line, and I will carry that around with me all day.

Life is anything but predictable.

Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?

From the time I left the Marine Corps after serving as an infantry platoon and company commander in Vietnam, I decided that I would focus on immediate goals that inspired me to devote all of my energy to them, rather than putting together the more cautious and traditional building blocks of a predictable career.

In many ways, I’m incredibly lucky to have been born with my impairment and that it’s visible. It means my path has been predictable.