Quotes About Uncertainty

your beliefs are among the many things over which I currently have absolutely no control.

People would call him Professor Fang, which sounded so much like a super villain that he wasn't sure he could go through with it.

couldn't tell if it was love, but I also knew that I was no real judge of love, having never experienced it or even witnessed it a single time in my life.

The whole experience felt like what drugs must have felt like. It was the high of doing something weird, not knowing the outcome.

I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.

A QUESTION OF SALARY Santa was filling up an application form for a job. He was not sure as to what to put in the column 'Salary Expected'. After much thought he wrote : 'Yes, please.

In the dense air, a gong reverberated. I wondered if it was to announce the end of my journey or the beginning of a new one.

As he walked the eight miles to where the Sea Venture lay docked, passing from his old life to his new, it would have been perfectly natural for him to wonder if he would ever again see the bustling, civilized city of London with its crowds and theaters and taverns and good food and, of course, his friends at the Mermaid and his family.

The truth is that writing is simply not reliable. You can't count on it to be there just because you've made time for it. In fact, making space might make it disappear.

Doesn't really matter how old you are or how many times, every decision is a new one. You just got to go with it sometimes, right or wrong. Find a way.

Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.

Anything can happen. But what goes wrong isn't your fault. You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

The one thing to remember about an adventure is that if it turns out the way you expect it to, it has not been an adventure at all.

The less we cement ourselves to our certainties, the fuller our lives can be.

That stage in life when older people assume that just because you've graduated college you know who you are, or what you're doing, and in fact most people don't.

That's the problem with destiny: You know she'll get you there eventually, but how she does it is generally a big fat mystery.

Some days are a total "What the hell was I thinking?

What are you?" I rasped. It smiled. "Whatever scares you.

You never know what the future holds or where my life will take me.

When people are uncertain about the future and afraid of what might come to pass, dispensationalists assure them that when things go from bad to worse, the church will be raptured from the earth and Christians will not be around to experience the great tribulation or the wrath of the Antichrist. In this way, dispensationalists offer comforting answers to painful questions.

we are in one of those great historical periods that occur every 200 or 300 years when people don't understand the world anymore, and the past is not sufficient to explain the future

In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing.

Thad slowly sat upright, his limbs quivery. He'd never been a whimsical man, but in that moment he felt as though someone had pushed him over the edge of a cliff and he was soaring in the clouds. In that moment, he lost his heart to Miss Sadie Wagner. And he had no idea how to snatch it back.