Quotes About Uncertainty

Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.

The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues that didn't really add up the way you think they would, and sometimes, not at all.

I miss sometimes the buzz of America. A sense that anything can change at the drop of a hat. In a way, it's an exhausting thing to live with.

We are anxious because we do not know what roles to pursue, what principles for action to believe in. Our individual anxiety, somewhat like that of the nation, is a basic confusion and bewilderment about where we are going.

I feel like, by now, if you don't understand that the playoffs can be somewhat of a crapshoot sometimes, then you don't watch enough baseball.

My biggest fear is death because I don't think I'm going anywhere. And since I don't think that, and I don't have a belief... I'm married to someone who has the belief, so she knows she's going somewhere.

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

People ask me where I live most of the time, and it's kind of complicated for me to answer, because I'm not really sure. It's somewhere in between London, Rome, Paris, and Rio.

It's been my experience that every time I think I know where it's at, it's usually somewhere else.

I think about death all the time. I know there's nothing out there, but I'm curious. There's a 300 billion-to-one chance that there might be an energy that goes somewhere else, but I doubt it.

In the NBA you are pretty confident but you are one phone call away from being somewhere else; you've just got to be ready for everything.

I want to play football. Whether that will be at Manchester City or somewhere else, I do not yet know.

I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.

What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been qualified to be a mayor. I'm not qualified to be a songwriter. I'm not qualified to be a TV producer. I'm not qualified to be a successful businessman. And so, I don't know what qualified means.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it.

However, there is no assurance that we can produce world class players so soon. Only time can tell.

If your business is really easy to do, don't gloat. You might be out of a job soon.

I haven't accomplished everything that I want to yet in my career, that's why I'm still playing. I just know that I still have something left inside of me to accomplish, and I don't know exactly what that is. Hopefully, I'll know one day soon.

Time for me is double-edged: every day brings me further from the low of my last cancer relapse, but every day also brings me closer to the next cancer recurrence - and eventually, death. Perhaps later than I think, but certainly sooner than I desire.

I know sooner or later I'll lose.

All political institutions will end sooner or later. The question is when and how.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?