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Quotes About Uncertain

To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.
~ Emma Goldman
I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain.
~ Clifford Geertz
At midlife, I think a woman has more in common with her teenage children than anybody else. We all are kind of uncertain. We realize for the first time in either our lives or decades that we're in charge now.
~ Jane Pauley
What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness!
~ Elizabeth Bibesco
People love Twinkies, and everyone knows about them, yet Hostess went bankrupt. Attention and commercial success have an uncertain relationship in business.
~ Andrew Yang
A 'first meeting' is, by definition, a one-time opportunity, and there's no going back. Over the course of my career, I've been on both sides of inspiring first meetings that energized me for the next stage of a partnership and disappointing first meetings that left me uncertain about next steps.
~ Dinesh Paliwal
I'm uncertain, with horror fans, when is disturbing just disturbing, and when is it fun disturbing?
~ Jeremy Sisto
In uncertain times, it is of heightened importance that our elected representatives exercise their democratic duty and use all levers at parliament's disposal to ensure a fair balance of powers.
~ Gina Miller
It was in that uncertain world that the European Convention on Human Rights was shaped. Written by Conservatives, it set out the principles which should lie behind a modern democratic state, where human rights were respected.
~ Chris Grayling
Sometimes movies that I'm in that I have a leading role don't necessarily get the biggest release, so it's a difficult thing between balancing indies that have uncertain futures and maybe larger films that have guaranteed releases that you have a smaller part in.
~ Gillian Jacobs
Everything about The Bradshaws is controversial, fluid, uncertain: their age - perhaps 30,000 years old, perhaps older, perhaps more recent - who painted them, what they mean.
~ Richard Flanagan
Monetary policy will, as always, respond to the economy's twists and turns so as to promote, as best as we can in an uncertain economic environment, the employment and inflation goals.
~ Janet Yellen
We must not fall into the trap of thinking speech that offends is speech that must be forbidden. A healthy culture demands that much of us, to equip the next generation of Americans with the knowledge and reason they will need to confront an uncertain future.
~ Ben Domenech
The Climate Risk Managers can be trained in the science and art of managing uncertain rainfall patterns leading to drought or flood.
~ M. S. Swaminathan
Subsidies and bailouts cannot compensate for uncertain or permanently diminished market access.
~ Ben Sasse
In the uncertain hour before the morningNear the ending of interminable nightAt the recurrent end of the unendingAfter the dark dove with the flickering tongueHad passed below the horizon of his homing.
~ T. S. Eliot
The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.
~ Patrick deWitt
I don't even know how to describe it. 'Ragtag' makes it sound like more than it is.
~ Neal Stephenson
making provision for an uncertain future has taken the very simple form of an investment (usually leveraged, that is debt-financed) in a house
~ Niall Ferguson
Are you in danger? There was the merest quiver in her voice. Gregori is with me. He wasn't altogether certain that didn't fall under the heading of misleading her, but she'd been through enough.
~ Christine Feehan
You really are extraordinary," she murmured, uncertain whether she was dreaming or not. "It is good you think so," he pointed out. "Since I wish to spend time with you.
~ Christine Feehan
My judgment now is that he was vacillating and undecided in his actions.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
The future is a messy, motley business, little girl.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
As I set my foot upon the path leading to that little brown house, I felt like an impostor. Surely, I had no business here. This was the house of another man. A man I remembered. A person of moral certainty, and some measure of wisdom, whom many called courageous. How could I masquerade as such a one? For I was a fool, a coward, uncertain of everything.
~ Geraldine Brooks