Quotes About Uncertainty

Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder.

What you reckon make him do a thing like that? Beats me. Just nasty. Well, they ought to take her out of school. Ought to. She carry some of the blame. Oh, come on. She ain't but twelve or so. Yeah. But you never know. How come she didn't fight him?

Her eyes, fixed on the window, are so expressionless he is not sure she will know who he is. There is too much light here in this room. Things look sold.

Sometimes. Sometimes it's a ambulance. Today it's a hearse.

She sat there, chewing her thumbnail, wondering just how bad could it be riding with a dead person? There was some herb in her pack. Not much but enough, she thought, to keep her from freaking. She reached out and pinched off a bit of crust from a pie sitting before her and noticed for the first time the place was loaded with food, mostly untouched.

like a piece of soft coal, leaving only flakes of ash and a question

It wasn't death, or dying, that frightened him but the unexpectedness of both.

How old are you, Freddie?" "Who knows? They made dirt in the morning and me that afternoon.

Something was scratching on the pane. Again.

Death is a sure thing but life is just as certain. Problem is you can't know in advance.

La peur du lendemain est une plaisanterie comparée a celle de la veille. Et le destin n'est rien qu'un peu de passé en retard.

The likely consequences of this coming age of uncertainty—when a growing number of people will have good reason to fear job loss and long-term redundancy—will be a return to dependency upon the state.

If social democracy has a future, it will be as a social democracy of fear.

We have entered an age of insecurity—economic insecurity, physical insecurity, political insecurity.

Insecurity breeds fear. And fear—fear of change, fear of

In a popular Soviet-era joke, a listener calls up 'Armenian Radio' with a question: 'Is it possible', he asks, 'to foretell the future?' Answer: 'Yes, no problem. We know exactly what the future will be. Our problem is with the past: that keeps changing'. So

They convey neither conviction nor authority.

I wonder if we're truly subverting anything, or if we're just playing with a loaded gun.

I knew I should believe him, as he taught at Oxford, but his answers did not feel complete. It was like having a meal and not getting quite enough to eat.

It was like being a sheep wandering into a pack of wolves./ A unilateral... fear of the unknown.

I am in limbo, and in limbo there are no races, no prizes, no changes, no chances. There are merely degrees of endurance, and endurance never was my strong point.

Even the reeking dark in the lion's cage seemed precious and infinitely preferable to whatever lay beyond. She would go out like the flame of a candle. Where does the candle flame go when the candle is blown out? She laid her painted face against the iron bars and bared her teeth at death.

As I said to that policeman, I don't know. I've

Ice cream was reliable. Young men were not.