Quotes About Uncertainty

For a change, Lady Luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.

Uncertainties are often useful in paralyzing an opponent's plans and actions

One whose path has taken a new turn is often initially disoriented. But as time passes, and the path continues steadily in its new direction, there is a tendency to believe that it will remain so forever, with no further turns.

Yes," Vader said, frowning. "Are you suggesting I was wrong?

One whose path has taken a new turn is often initially disoriented. But as time passes, and the path continues steadily in its new direction, there is a tendency to believe that it will remain so forever, with no further turns. Nothing is further from the truth. A path once bent is always susceptible to new changes.

Chance is a funny thing. A fat one and a slim one are the same thing.

Just because we love each other doesn't mean that we're meant to be together, right?

We fear that which we cannot see.

We fear which we cannot see

People are able to hold onto hope, since death is that which cannot be seen.

There is only one thing you have to know about the future: everything gets worse.

Someday Miller is going to die. He knows that and he prides himself on knowing it when everyone else only pretends to, secretly believing that they will live forever.....A simple truth . His mother is also going to die . Just like him. And there is no telling when.

Of that time, there is still much we do not know.

Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.

And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things fated by the decisions made this morning -- and, once decided, best unseen.

Diplomacy was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.

Robert, that's a little too far off the wall, I think," Greer analyzed.

question that remained now was whether he would be alive to perform the day's final salaat. That was in Allah's

No man controlled his fate, a knowledge that came late in life. You just tried to muddle along from one point to another, making as few mistakes as possible.

I really like people. But I don't know how it will end.

Being safe is fiction.

But there you go. Nobody said life was supposed to be easy, or fair, or even a guaranteed minimum length.

The truth is, my life never went according to plan, or a plan, or anything resembling a plan. It just sort of sprawled. Some lucky people have lives like a new colony, where the public buildings and houses and streets and markets and town walls are all laid out and completed before the first settler moves in. The rest of us are like old villages which grew up haphazard, strung out along a road or squashed in between two mountains.

one of the scariest snakes in the room is the fear of failure, which manifests itself in such ways as fear of being judged, fear of getting started, fear of the unknown. And while much has been said about fear of failure, it still is the single biggest obstacle people face to creative success.