Quotes About Uncertain

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.

Life does not give you a pass from upheavals even in the best of times. Life gives you living—which is messy and uncertain, constantly shifting your place in the world and your expectations

Life was uncertain. Death was forever.

Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe. Treatle: I hadn't looked at it like that, but you're absolutely right. He's really pushed back the boundaries of ignorance. They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things.

In the kitchen, chickens had overflowed into the sink. They weren't making much noise, except for the occasional 'werk' a chicken makes when it's a bit uncertain about things, which is more or less all the time.

When it's a memory, you already know the outcome so it's easy to think it was an easier time. Looking forward is much more uncertain, and is more complicated. But I don't think it is. Not really.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory even more are false, and most are uncertain.

This kind of herd behaviour can be highly contagious and highly uncertain. And it explains the unpredictability not only of the next chart-topping song but also of next summer's fashion craze—not to mention the 'animal spirits' driving boom and bust in stock markets—revealing the strength of social networks in shaping our preferences, purchases and actions.

There are no singular tales. A life in solitude is a life rushing to death. But a blind man will never rush; he but feels his way, as befits an uncertain world.

There was no beginning, middle and end to destiny, it wasn't neat and manageable. It was random and scary and if it wanted to it would.

I didn't know how to answer anything so brazen; the only thing I could have managed would have been an inarticulate hiss.

Years of teaching had left him with that firm and didactic tone of someone used to being heard, but not certain of being listened to.

Aubrey looked a little—what? I couldn't identify it.

I can't tell if you're awesome or pathetic.

The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.

I kiss him as the train slides into unlit, uncertain land. I kiss him for as long as I want, for longer than I should, given that my brother sits three feet away from me.

War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.

Please make the pain go away, he thought, uncertain whether he was referring to her or to the headache.

Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved.

When I read a novel I am not only surrendering; I am allowing my mind to be occupied by a colonizer of uncertain intent

I also worry that my reporting will become this deluge of tragedy for people, who like myself, unable or uncertain of what to do, let it wash over them. Some African journalists call it poverty porn—stories or images of intense suffering designed solely for emotional impact, but often have the effect of shutting people down rather than helping them step up.

Ser Alliser Thorne was the only man at table who did not so much as crack a smile. "Lannister mocks us." "Only you, Ser Alliser," Tyrion said. This time the laughter round the table had a nervous, uncertain quality to it.