Quotes About Uncertainty

One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill.

We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.

There's never any guarantee at war.

Were it good To set the exact wealth of all our states All at one cast? to set so rich a main On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? It were not good.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.

War always takes you by surprise.

In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a war story nothing is ever absolutely true.

I can't tell him I need him. I can't need him, period -- or really, we can't need each other, because who knows how long either of us will last in this war?

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.

I believe love is like war: we only know how it starts, and nobody knows how it will end.

It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear.

Let us pray now for the future dead. Though we do not yet know their names, we know that there shall be far too many of them.

You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.

Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.

On occasions the war was like a Ping-Pong ball. You could put fancy spin on it, you could make it dance.

This is my war, and I don't know what side I'm on.

We are at war. War has a way of stripping us of perspective. War is about life and death, and it paints everything in shades of now or never.

A new age is approaching, and its advent might make us pray to go back to the days of the trenches. Once the Worldwaker goes off, we will never be able to sleep again.

We were not destined to survive. The fact is, we were not destined at all. The war would take what it could get.

the worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation

The threat of war hung on the air like a thick fog and it blinded him until he could see nothing beyond the haze. Even the stars grew faint.

In a middle of a war a single doubt about what you are fighting for could mean death.

To where? We don't know. To do what? We don't know either. No one tells us anything. We just follow orders.

Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another.