{"quotes":[{"text":"People with anxiety and trust issues find themselves drawn to people of consistency because they feel safe with someone who is predictable. However, that doesn’t cure their problem. The anxious person still remains the same because anxiety is a wave that crashes on the shore every time an unpredictable circumstance challenges their expectations and comfort zone.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["anxiety","avoidance","caring-too-much","comfort","comfort-zone","confidence","consistency","constant","dreamers","false-peace","false-sense-of-comfort","fear","fixing-the-problem","life","not-caring","predictable","prisoners","protection","reliving-the-past","settling","support","trust","trust-issues","unexpected-changes","unexpected-plots","unexpected-turns","unpredictable"],"id":21862,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables are controlled and predictable.","author":"Michio Kaku","tags":["robots","doing","predictable "],"id":22626,"author_id":"Michio+Kaku"},{"text":"It's weird how I am constantly surprised by the passage of time when it's literally the most predictable thing in the Universe.","author":"Randall Munroe","tags":["constantly","passage","predictable","surprised","time","universe"],"id":32357,"author_id":"Randall+Munroe"},{"text":"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.","author":"Eleanor Roosevelt","tags":["without","flavor","predictable "],"id":36983,"author_id":"Eleanor+Roosevelt"},{"text":"A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["agnosticism","apologetics","atheism","boast","discovery","ignorance","intelligence","knowledge","philosopher","philosophy","predication","predictability","predictable","science","scientist","theism","unpredictability","unpredictable","wisdom"],"id":47100,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Beauty is boring because it is predictable.","author":"Umberto Eco","tags":["boring","predictable","because "],"id":79807,"author_id":"Umberto+Eco"},{"text":"When what we believe we’ve mastered is no longer predictable we’re not fine. The world suddenly is a very scary place. It loses its charm.","author":"Patricia Cornwell","tags":["lost-charm","predictable","safety","world-view"],"id":80130,"author_id":"Patricia+Cornwell"},{"text":"Time limits tend to turn everything predictable and mundane into a novelty.","author":"Rhian J. Martin","tags":["novelty","predictable","time"],"id":91933,"author_id":"Rhian+J.+Martin"},{"text":"When you live by the demands and supply of life, your life becomes easily predictable.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["demand","live","predictable","supply"],"id":95107,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","brother","brothers","buried","bury","dead","death","die","dying","families","family","funeral","funerals","funny","guarantee","guaranteed","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","joke","jokes","life","parent","parents","predict","predictable","probability","probable","satire","sibling","siblings","sister","sisters","unpredictable"],"id":117857,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}