Quotes About Uncertainty

I spent a lot of time flailing around, not really sure what I wanted to do, in my 20s and early 30s.

I spent my entire life being afraid. I was afraid of everything - height, flights - I had no idea why.

There was never an 'a-ha' moment when a spider bit me and I knew I could write songs. For that reason, I don't know if I'm always going to be able to. I want to write songs forever, but it's an elusive thing.

Politics is not a laboratory experiment where you can control everything. You have to take calls even when you feel that matters may spin out of your hand.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

I see myself as a spiritual person, but I don't think anyone should claim proof of a god. No one can prove it. That's why I don't claim to know whether there are one, many or no gods.

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

I don't know - I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

Endings are scary and foreign. They split you up emotionally and put you in a place where you don't know what's going to happen next. But with every end of the world, there is a new world that follows.

Who among us is so certain of our identity? Who hasn't been asked, 'What's your background?' and hesitated, even for a split second, to answer their inquisitor. Howard Jacobson's 'The Finkler Question' forces us to ask that of ourselves, and that's why it's a must read, no matter what your background.

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

I haven't seen or spoken to Ray Collins in at least 10 years so I don't even know if he's alive. I hope so.

Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.

Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different.

A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.

Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.

I trust to luck. I am planning to be a millionaire before I die but I don't have a plan as to how that will happen.

I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.

To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.

The greatest wonder is never being able to know what will happen next. No matter how hard you try, the future will always be ahead of you.

I hated relying on luck. When it worked, it made me feel so damned eerie.