Quotes About Uncertainty

I've been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times.

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

Damned Neuters in their Middle way of Steering Are neither Fish nor Flesh nor good Red Herring.

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

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

I haven't a clue how my story will end, but that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, that's when you discover the stars.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

The only thing certain is nothing is certain.

People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.

Only fools are positive.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

Change means the unknown.

You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable.

You never know when the best day of your life is going to be.

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

Very few positive experiences begin with being told to count back slowly from ten.

I'm not a proper anything. Majoring in philosophy kind of turns positive assertions into maybes.

Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution.

One is least sure of one's self, sometimes, when one is most positive.