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Quotes About Uncertain

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.
~ Thomas Huxley
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.
~ Thomas Wolfe
Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not
~ Cormac McCarthy
Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not -Judge Holden
~ Cormac McCarthy
Reality is a fragile thing.
~ Cornelia Funke
Connie went away completely bewildered. She was not sure whether she had been insulted and mortally offended, or not.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Every line we succeed in publishing today - no matter how uncertain the future to which we entrust it - is a victory wrenched from the powers of darkness.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
The jurors appear vaguely stranded and at loose ends, uprooted from their routines and livelihoods.
~ Walter Kirn
It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted.
~ Charlotte Bront
A story that fate left incomplete
~ Chetan Bhagat
Diagnoses, Dave thought, were rough guesses, blunt tools, always more inaccurate than they were helpful.
~ Heather Sellers
If I were making up a story, I would have it gray and miserable outside, but it was sunny and miserable instead, glaringly bright and bitterly cold, as if the sky could not decide if it was in a good mood or would spend all day growling. I didn't mind this kind of weather, weather that cannot make up its mind, because I am often the same way, or at least I think I am. I don't know.
~ Lemony Snicket
Lemony Snicket
~ xenophobes.
Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.
~ Lena Dunham
Siempre había mariposeado, sin ningún objeto fijo.
~ Jane Austen
Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as 'uncertain' is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy.
~ Bo Bennett
That unpredictable game here in England, that makes it so fascinating for the fans, because you never know what will happen.
~ Pep Guardiola
My favorite characters are always the unpredictable ones, and with Domino, you literally never know which way the dice are going to roll.
~ Gail Simone
Football is unpredictable.
~ Julen Lopetegui
Football is a strange game.
~ Angel Di Maria
We atheists do want justice. Why would you imagine we don't? As with purpose, justice doesn't have to be ultimate to be meaningful. We want justice in our world, not in a pretend supernatural realm. Since there is no ultimate cosmic justice, we have all the more reason not to put it off to an uncertain future. We had better do it now. We
~ Dan Barker
Ghosts are nothing if not capricious.
~ William Gibson
Life itself is a rickety building
~ William Golding
Isolation from local needs and overexposure to overwhelming but distant need, make our responses to strangers uncertain and tentative at best
~ Christine D. Pohl