Quotes About Uncertain

Are you . . . lost?" "Not really," she told him. "We just don't know where we're going.

How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.

Nothing is so fickle and uncertain as popularity. It is here today and gone tomorrow. It is a sandy foundation, and sure to fail those who build upon it.

In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses.

She walked about disdainfully, unwilling to be enthusiastic over monuments of uncertain authorship or date.

The silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain.

If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?

Clearly, I'm not psychic.

Let me put it this way, if you were drowning, you wouldn't really be in a place to lend a hand as far as being rescued. You'd be at the mercy of the lifeguard. Once pulled out, you may be a little out of it, not sure where you are, but safe nonetheless.

The world is such a blooming topsy-turvy, fragile, bleak place.

The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.

The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires.

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

Fate was sometimes inscrutable.

The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions. The uncertain rabbits had to be exposed, made to run for their burrows. Else how could you control them and breed them?

I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.

This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart's affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive, as feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just as one is good, another is bad.

ascertain, Jersey had no knowledge of demonology. At this point, all I could do was tell her and her family that I was very uncertain about the case, and that, after I got home, I would be

She was pretty, fresh, she came from the hands of nature full of that sorcery, uncertain and eternal, that an individual passes to another individual for the secret ends of creation.'' The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas- Machado de Asis

at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns. I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach.

you're reluctant

I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.

I didn't pretend to know Eli at all, but even so, I'd noticed that his manner was slightly hard to read. It was something in the way he talked that made it difficult to tell whether he was kidding or serious or what. This bothered me. Or intrigued me. Or both.

One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating. This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.