Quotes About Uncertainty

They are probably now either archived or expunged. If I don't escape from 1851 within the next three weeks, I will never know which.

Half an hour later I pronounced us lost. Jesry accepted it with pleasure, as if this were more satisfactory than being found.

in the informal atmosphere of the Physics Department, appointments were viewed with a certain Heisenbergian skepticism, as though being in the right place at the right time would involve breaking a natural law and was therefore impossible to begin with.

The Rat Thing has them now," Hiro says.

If you want guarantees in life, then you don't want life. You want rehearsals for a script that's already been written. Life by its nature cannot have guarantees, or its whole purpose is thwarted.

People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change. The people here are going to change. The patients are going to leave. You can't rely on them.

There are only things that could have turned out different. You don't have any should or woulds in your life, see? You only have things that could have gone a different way. [...] You never know what truly would have happened if you had done your shoulds and woulds. You life might have turned out worse, isn't that possible?

The people are Anchors, I say. People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change. The people here are going to change. The patients are going to leave. You can't rely on them.

It's just… a possibility, like it's a possibility that I could turn to dust in the next instant and be disseminated throughout the universe as an omniscient consciousness. It's not a very likely possibility.

No. There are only things that could have turned out differently. You don't have any shoulds or woulds in your life, see? You only have things that could have gone a different way. You never know what truly would have happened if you had done your shoulds and woulds. Your life might have turned out worse, isn't that possible?

Some days I woke up and got out of bed and brushed my teeth like any normal human being; some days I woke up and lay in bed and looked the ceiling and wondered what the hell the point was of getting out of bed and brushing my teeth like any normal human being.

And what is that nightmare, Craig? Life. Life is a nightmare. Yes.

Human nature scares the hell out of me.

the universe is under no obligation to make sense to us.

?wiat nie ma obowi?zku by? dla ciebie zrozumia?ym.

WAITRESS 1 What do I hope for in a guy? Everything . . . Pause. WAITRESS 1 What do I expect? Not much . . . Pause. WAITRESS 1 What'll I take? Usually . . . anything . . .

Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet

Back then, I had no idea that I'd ever feel unsafe in America or be preparing for disaster myself. We seemed to stand monolithic and invulnerable at the center of the political, cultural, and moral universe, unchallenged as the world's lone superpower. For

I realized the mistake I'd been making my whole life: to get a woman, you have to be willing to risk losing her. What if she reacts me? Yeah, and what if a meteor hits your house.

Mrs. Rahman. It was impossible to know whether Mokta

No, certainly he didn't. Not actually. He couldn't, not very well, since he didn't know. But he would have. It amounts to the same thing. And I'm sure it was just as unpleasant.

I think we opened a Pandora's box, took out a can of worms, and threw it at a hornet's nest." "You can say that again." But I didn't. I said, "We've been cut loose." I thought a moment, then added, "But I think we can go it alone." "I guess we have no choice. But I still want to know about West Point.

stock market has gone to hell, and people have

I think if I worked with the stuff they worked with, I, too, wouldn't make any long-range plans. Hell, I wouldn't even buy green bananas.