Quotes About Uncertainty

There are so many people who are trying their luck in films and only a few of those actors get to do films and choose to be an actor. The stakes are always high here. It's hard in the sense that it's very uncertain.

To set a 100-day plan was to will myself into the future, no matter how uncertain it seemed.

Too many of our immigrant communities have been forced to live in fear, uncertain about their futures.

Our broken immigration system has left too many people uncertain of whether they could be torn away from their homes, forced to leave their families, their communities, and their dreams behind.

Whenever I get on stage, I feel safe and in control. Life can be so uncertain, but on stage, I always know how a drama or crisis is going to end. Acting is a great comfort blanket and has gotten me through countless personal crises. I am a firm believer that the show must go on.

Books for teens are amazing and compelling, I think, because they're generally set in a time in people's lives when they are uncertain about who they are and who they love and what the right thing is to do.

I think everybody, especially every woman that you speak to, has gone through periods of their life where they feel uncertain or insecure. But I've been fortunate in my own life never to have gone through extended periods of crippling insecurity.

One of the uncertain pleasures of adulthood, for me, has really been about confronting how little I know about the world and how much completely baffles me about the world and human behavior.

I find it very interesting to keep people uncertain about what is what and figure it out as they go.

Sometimes momentous government action leaves everyone uncertain about the next move.

You never reach a point where you feel completely 'ready' - there's always more you can do. But I think every team and driver is going to be feeling uncertain going into the pre-season.

A terrible additional worry was the emergence of AIDS. I know I wasn't the only friend of George's who worried about him during that uncertain, frightening period.

I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.

No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.

Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.

In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much.

War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing.

War seems a perfectly impossible thing, even when it can be seen coming nearer and nearer.

If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.

The fortune of war is always doubtful.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.