Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
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.
I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
Home is not a place. Home is security, predictability, reliability, dependability, safety, permanence combined together.
A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.
This story, I predict, will grow to be worse than Watergate. The American people need to have the answers.
If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.
Prediction? The Democrats will win. I think it will be a close win, both for the House and for the Senate.
Renewable energy has economic advantages that extend beyond steady, predictable electric rates - and Maine is in a good position to capitalize on those opportunities.
Bullet Tooth Tony: You should never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.
Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.
I love being the bad guy, simply because I was always so responsible, so predictable growing up.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Timing is easy to predict through the movement of the stars as they give the propensity of pure potential.
Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable.
Give me the positions and velocities of all the particles in the universe, and I will predict the future.
I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
With enough information, it is almost impossible "not" to predict people's action.
