Quotes About Uncertainty

The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.

No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

Death defines life. I'd rather stay undefined.

With people you can never tell, Will they have changed when next we meet? But here in my dear old home at least, The plums still smell as sweet. / ???? ????? ????? ???? ???????

Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

I didn't know whether to duck or to run, so I ran.

In politics a week is a very long time.

In politics, sunny days and rainy days can change very quickly.

There is only one redeeming thing about this whole election. It will be over at sundown, and let everybody pray that it's not a tie, for we couldn't go through with this thing again.

Politics is not an exact science.

In politics there is no right answer - and no final answer.

Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Under New Labour, only the future is certain. The past keeps changing

In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.

Nobody is sure of his life, property and health when the parliament deliberates.

Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.

I never leave a game before the last pitch, because in baseball, as in life and especially politics, you never know what will happen.