Quotes About Uncertainty

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

It is on a day like this one, a little later a little earlier that you descover without surprise that something is wrong that you don't know how to live and you will never know

It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that you discover, without surprise, that something is wrong, that, without mincing words, you don't know how to live, that you will never know." -from "A Man Asleep

Oh, the vanity of plans! Our lives proceed regardless. All the things we work out in such minute detail slip away from us at the last moment, or change.

You know what I think? Fate! That's what it is fate! There's a thing that comes after a fellow:got a name,but I forgot what it is. Creeps up behind him, and puts him in the basket when he ain't expecting it.

The charm of your society, my Sparrow, lies in not knowing what you will say next – though one rapidly learns to expect the worst!

When I write, I know who I am, but once I stop, I am no longer so sure.

Ancak ölüm kibrini uyand?rabiliyordu. Onu orada buradakilerden daha çok insan bekliyordu.

It may look like a boat with a hole, but it may be a hole with a boat.

The Spanish economic system is like a game of musical chairs, in which there are only half as many seats as there are performers.

said Mother vaguely.

I have never been a very brave man," Uncle Moses said. "Nor I," Zalmann added. Eva smiled at them. "You are brave enough.

There's never an easy answer to the question "Should we do more testing?" because information can guide risk reduction, but doesn't necessarily do so.

Effective leaders often have to act even when they don't understand all possible factors

the more adapted an organism was to present conditions, the less adaptable it tended to be to unknown future conditions.

Brave? Or stupid?" Roger shrugged. "I've never been quite sure where brave stopped and stupid began, myself.

Which do you hate more: breaking your word or dying?" "I don't know. I've never done either.

If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.

A woman had thrown her own babe down a well. When she was brought to answer for the murder, she said that one great good had come of her evil act. At last, she said, she was free of the uncertainty that had plagued her every waking thought: was she numbered among the damned or the saved? Her whole life had been bent about that question. Finally, she knew.

I cannot say that I have faith anymore. Hope, perhaps. We have agreed that it will do for now.

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know what actors do.

What makes a good pinch hitter? I wish the hell I knew.