Quotes About Uncertainty

There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.

There are vicissitudes in all things.

Some people ask, "What if the sky were to fall?"

So many men so many questions.

As I said earlier, life happens, and you will inevitably run into a situation that you simply could not plan for at some point in your life. Although you may not be able to plan for the event itself, the best that you can do is ensure that you are financially prepared to handle it and reduce or eliminate any additional stress from an already stressful situation.

The trouble with the scientific approach, thought the Brigadier, was that it left you at the mercy of your scientists.

Sometimes Is a good answer to any existential question.

Weather is a great metaphor for life — sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella.

Sometimes I feel like I'm going nowhere, in opposite directions.

A palace of doubt is senseless, The chambers have no light.

I am in the middle of nowhere. It's nighttime. I am surrounded by crocodiles. The boat motor won't start. Steve will be snatched and eaten by One-Eye right off the back of the boat. Then I'll be alone.

Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time .

1. Passion; 2. An eye of discernment; 3. An empty vessel; 4. An ability to be uncertain; 5. Belief in the necessity of art and artists; 6. A medium—bringing a passionate and informed understanding of works of art to an audience in ways that will stimulate, inspire, question; 7. Making possible the altering of perception.6

And on the good days, when I felt as if I was making progress--I was scared then too.

My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.

But before either of us can speak again, I feel crackle-crackle-crackle. I can't tell what's going to happen next. My seizure begins to spin slowly through me. What will my dad do? Whatever it is, in another moment I'll be flying free. Either way, whatever he does, I'll be soaring.

It's a dangerous mission. You could die out there. You could go on forever.

Everything's a gamble, love most of all.

God, it's like reality's completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough, I just worked like hell for it. Now I can't decide what to do, which move to make. All the things I counted on aren't there for me anymore.